IT WAS never my intention to give anyone a history lesson, (ViewPoints, September 27) but why didn’t Ian Cummings answer the two important questions I posed?
Regards history and the Hitler/Stalin pact, it came about after the Allies refused a similar pact with the Soviets, leaving no realistic choice.
The fact that some Allies wanted to join Hitler and attack the Soviets and destroy Communism is suppressed history, but true. Apparently Stalin needed four years to get ready for a Nazi attack but that came just two years later.
I’m no Stalin supporter. I think I’ve covered that question enough and merely try to get people to recognise the huge sacrifice the Soviet people made. For each Brit killed in World War Two, 85 Russians died.
The vast majority were just ordinary people, possibly like us, who died fighting Fascism. Why can’t we accept that?
Many different countries sacrificed souls to varying degrees – the US, Poles, African and many other nationalities.
Ordinary people die in wars and are still dying today down to the same basic reasons all wars start – land, resources or, put another way, empire.
If Mr Cummings likes Churchill quotes, try this one: “Our gallant Russian allies are tearing the guts out of the Nazi army.”
And could he possibly accept the tiny possibility that there is good and bad in all?
TIM W SIRET
Millmoor Crescent
Eynsham
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