Noel wrote:
On Mon, 10 May 2004 05:09:43 GMT, m II
wrote:


The history of Soviet expansionism into Asia is a pretty long one.


That's strange, as the Soviet history wasn't particularly long. And
Checnya was part of Russia long before the USSR came into being.

I should have said Russian expansion into Asia. Most of the Soviet
expansiom was Westwards, with a lot of help from the Allies. It will
take a while to get used to NOT associating Russia and communism.

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/russia/kazan.html

When the Bolsheviks took over, they din't give anything back.



mike