Re: [OT] Sea Leopard

On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 18:11:22 -0700 (PDT), John Atkinson
<johnmatkinson@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Traumatized their tiny little minds so badly
>that they never had the nerve to hassle the Ruskies
>again, even when they should have in 1941. 

A good chunk of their "trauma" was being intensely peeved with Adolf
Hitler,
who signed a peace treaty with the Soviets within a couple of days of
Khalkin-Gol. The Japanese weren't pre-disposed to helping out the
Germans by
invading the Soviet Union from the east.

Allan Goodall		       agoodall@hyperbear.com
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