[107297] in Cypherpunks
Re: Regarding Hitler (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Sat Jan 9 00:10:51 1999
From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 23:32:25 -0600 (CST)
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
Forwarded message:
> From: LBurman@aol.com
> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 23:42:41 EST
> Subject: Re: Regarding Hitler
> Soviet Union was nearly unbeatable. I don't recall all the stats, but they
> had the Germans about 2x in planes, and 3x in tanks (better tanks too, the
> Soviets put Christie's designs into production when no one in the US cared).
> He theorized that the only two superpowers would eventually be the US and
> USSR. I wish I still had the book.
Know your enemies mind. If you can defeat that then battle can be avoided
and victory assured.
In the first year of the war Hitler could have won because of two factors.
The first was the political fragility of the Communist hold at the time. The
second was the beheading of the Russian officer corp. The Russians had the
tools, they didn't have the heads.
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