MontyB
All-Blacks Supporter
Monty........ Millions of Russians POWs were killed are allowed to die of starvation, can you tell me when the Allied Armies did this also. Okay before you get back on your soap box I will agree that the Russians managed to get rid of a lot of German POW, there again the German invasion of Russia killed some 20 million Russians.
If one follows your argument then if one Army has big gun that kills more people than the ones you have then it would be wrong for you to build a bigger gun that would counteract his big gun. I suppose you will argue that the V 1 and V 2 were okay as they did kill as many people as area bombing.
Any war is a criminal act of some one trying impose there ideals on to you and if you disagree then you will be wiped out, now if it is wrong then to fight against things then we are all guilty and having myself taken up arms for my country then I am also guilty. Now I can't help wondering if you have ever served in the military and have smelled gunpowder at close range.
Oh cut the sanctimony, I fully understand that wars kill people and some of those will be innocent parties, you do not see me waffling on about the bombing of Hamburg, Cologne or any other German cities because they were destroyed when the war was in its balance and the allies did what they needed to do to turn the tide but Dresden was a totally different scenario and it was destroyed for the sake of it which is where I draw the line.
The allied propaganda post WW2 emphasised that we were the "good guys" fighting an unprecedented evil and in part I can buy that as Hitlers Germany was the unprecedented evil portrayed but the facts that we refuse to face up to is that we really weren't the good guys we were just the more justified of two evils.
Incidentally the Russian casualty figures are somewhat debatable and I would suggest that your 20 million is total for the WW2 period of which approximately half that number were killed by Stalin's team (that was the lot we consider part of the "good guys") and not Hitlers lunatics.