[adonys]

none of you ever lived in the east.. the real east, which is at Russia's border, or beyond it.

if you really want to know, ask the finns, ask the poles, ask the letons, and the romanians.. there's no much left from the ask the ukraineans.. and then maybe you'll start to comprehend that the red monster was 10 time worse then the black one.

all the Soviet Unions civil population greeted the german army as a liberation army. try to stop and think about what that means.. and that was only after 20 years of "communism".. then try to imagine what another 50 years like those would do to the rest..

you think you were screwed?!! well, we fought with Germany from the beginning, as no western countries were willing to guarantee our borders or help us if something happened. we fought until Stalingrad, and back. then, in the summer '44 stupid us (but mostly some politicians) tried to salvage the little which could be salvaged, country's territorial integrity, and switched the sides against our hearts, fighting for Allies from then on until the end of the war.

Romania's allied war effort was the third or fourth, after Russia and US and maybe Great Britain, and we shortened the war with at least 6 months.

and what that brought us?

russian army entered the allied Romania as in an occupied country: a tidalwave of killing and destruction and rape. after the war, we were not acknowledged as a co-belligerent party (in our face being accepted as co-belligerents France and Italy and such, even if they did nothing compared with our allied war effort), large chunks of our country were given to Russia and Bulgaria, we were completely abandoned into the hands of russians, the great famine from '46 (as russians took all our food) in which tens of thousands died, our whole industry was dismantled by same russians and taken away, followed by another 45 years in which we had to sell everything almost for free in order to pay them the "war compensations" we "owed" them.

45 years of living in a labor camp! you have not the slightest idea how were those 45 years..

and that's the same for all the other eastern countries. ask poles, which started the war actually, who do they hate more, the reds or the blacks, and you might get a surprise answer from them..

as for flying, this is a game. I do prefer to fly Axis airplanes, as we flew them during the war, but I have no problem flying even russian planes as an Ally, when there's a need for balance. and I have friends from all around the world, which whom I fly with, or against.

a game is just a game, and each and everyone of you should never ever forget that!