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Also http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/nazsov.asp

(cont) Though to me, the Nazi-Soviet military alliance is not as alarming as the Nazi-Soviet economic relations. Take a look at this article, for example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi%E2%80%93Soviet_economic_relations_(1934%E2%80 %931941)

And this graph, from the article: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...SSRPerCent.jpg

Most German, after the Phoney War, came from Stalin(85 percent at one point)! I.e, Germany would have been economically ruined if not for Nazi-Soviet trade. Stalin is what allowed Germany to break the British blockade, Germany actually imported Indian(that is, the same India which was the "jewel" of the British Empire at the time)goods through the USSR.

There's loads of books written on this stuff. You can read the text of the Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty online, in English, and the subsequent German-Soviet treaties are also available. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1939pact.html
The secret protocols of the Mol-Ribb pact call for (1) the partition of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, (2) the partition of Poland and creating potential Polish client states and (3) Soviet annexation of Bessarabia. The relations between Hitler and Stalin were such, that they were dividing the Baltic and Eastern Europe between themselves...Hitler and Mussolini weren't on such friendly terms!

Regarding German-Soviet axis talks, there's a wikipedia article, and while wikipedia is generally an inadequate source, it at least touches the surface and most of the time, gets the most important facts right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%...iet_Axis_talks

http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.p...2&postcount=72
It would be wrong to call the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact a "non-aggression pact" now that it's secret protocols are known by all. It was only a step short of a military alliance(and today it's known that Hitler actually invited Stalin to join the Axis, Stalin gave Hitler a counter-proposal, demanding a bigger sphere of influence for the Soviet Union - Persia and other regions of the Middle East - in exchange for the USSR joining the Axis; Hitler never responded, which apparently made Stalin and Molotov pretty pissy). After all it's conveniently ignored by Stalinists that Finland was not a German puppet, in fact, the opposite, Hitler stood on Stalin's side during the Winter War, going as far as setting up a naval blockade of Finland, and intimidating Sweden from aiding Finland or allowing weapons to pass through Sweden on their way to Finland. Herr Hitler played no small part in aiding the Soviets during the war.

I'm not really that enthusiastic about people being banned for using words like tit, dick, asshole etc. I'm sure we all use these words in everyday life and to me, (the c-word aside perhaps), using these words as an insult have nothing to do with feminism or gay rights, or anything like that. I actually think we lose face by focusing on 'banning' the use of these words, because it does next to nothing to change peoples' attitudes. Really, I think we are also imagining a problem here: not imagining sexism, because that certainly exists, but imagining that every time someone calls someone else a tit, wanker, asshole, dickhead etc., that this is sexist. It's not, these words are not loaded with sexist intent when used in such a way and really we're shooting ourselves in the foot.

However, this is an internet forum, so i'd rather we were clear and consistent one way or the other, than ban people for saying 'tit', but not for saying 'dick', 'asshole' or similar.