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Moose, are you from Chicago? If so, PM me. Just in case I forget this thread.

⌐ AV8OR WANNABE

Somehow I thought the Russians were our allies in WWII?
A big mistake to ever trust the Russkies so maybe he simply meant he never bombed our "real" allies like the Brits, etc?

MD11

Take some time and read a little history. The Russians were NOT our allies. Stalin aligned himself with hitler and they invaded Poland together. In June of '41, hitler and his group launch a surprise attack on Russia. The Russians were never embraced by the Allies even though they were fighting the same enemy. Also, take a look at how the Russians harrassed our aircraft during the Berlin airlift. They would never be mistaken for or should considered Allies during the war.

⌐ AV8OR WANNABE

Hey Sherlock, why don’t you chill and stop belittling other posters simply because they don’t prescribe to what you think is the correct version of history? You are confusing your history or rather the timelines.

In my previous post I clearly acknowledged the Russians were never our true allies however officially yes they were our allies and yes we did indeed support them with money, weapons, know-how, etc. By no means do I consider myself an expert however history was my major and I figure I must have read at least a few history books.

The Russians were initially ‘allied’ with Nazi Germany via a non-aggression pact, the so called Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty where a secret portion of the treaty basically divided Poland, the Baltic states, Romania, etc. amongst the two.

However, once the Nazis attacked the Soviet Union the commies did indeed become our allies because we (the Americans and the British) decided that keeping the German forces diverted to the eastern front was more important than the plight of the Eastern Europe. That's also why we later sold out the entire Eastern Europe to the Russian sphere of influence at the Yalta conference. We knew fully well the Russians would never allow free and fair elections in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, etc yet we gave up those countries to the Russians on the condition of "free and fair elections” in those countries - that was the price for having them as our “allies”...

Additionally the Russians were supposed to declare war on Japan and help us fight the Japanese empire which the Russians did – a few weeks before the Japanese surrender ...
So again the Russians betrayed us by waiting to the very last minute and after the war ended up occupying the four Japanese Southern Kurile Islands – which is the reason to why Japan and Russia never signed a peace treaty after WWII.

Maybe you too need to read some more history, huh? I think the world would be a better place if all of us knew our history better…

MD11

No problem,,, I was just originally wondering who the elderly gentleman was in the ASC. See original post.

⌐ AV8OR WANNABE

Hmm, OK? I just read the original post and am still not sure how I could've answered the original question by "reading a little history"?

Either way, it's all good as long as we both agree that Россия has never been and never will be our true ally...

UEDriver

The 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing, still calling themselves the Tuskeegee Airmen, is located at Balad Airbase, IZ. If I'm not mistaken, Balad is the busiest airfield in Iraq. But busy is a relative term...

Air Force Link - 332nd AEW

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