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Originally Posted by baronWastelan
If it wasn't for Hitler, Russia would now be known as nothing other than a failed repressive empire. In the 21st century, what does Russia have to offer the rest of the world, other than cheap weapons: computer war games, made with imported computer technology. Russia is doing nothing to deserve status of superpower.
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What do you have to do to get the status of a superpower? Usually act like a jerk, make a mess of other countries and then address them in a condescending way (and get away with it by having more guns). IMHO, the United States, Great Britain and Russia have all been superpowers at some point or another
I have a great deal of respect for the richness and depth of Russian culture. Compared to the most powerful 18th century Tsars the Soviet Union was a better place to live (although it is unfortunate that it returned to the death penalty etc.)
Regarding the wargames - flight simulators have been abandoned in North America and Western Europe. Upper level management and a focus on short-term profitability has done them in. It is only TK/Thirdwire and the Russian firms such as Maddox Games and Eagle Dynamics who have kept going and breathed new life into the genre.
I have nothing but respect for what Oleg Maddox has done - not just in helping communicate Great Patriotic War history to a new generation of young people - but also in helping to do the same for Commonwealth history (as we can't seem to do it properly ourselves and the American publishers were generally oblivious when they existed).
@baronWastelan: Could you please grow up and stop fighting the cold war - said in the most humble and respectful tone
05-07-2010, 12:07 PM
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