вас тут не стояло, или кто выиграл Вторую мировую

The [Soviet] General told me how sorry all Russians were that President Roosevelt had died, that they considered him a great friend of Russia. He praised American equipment very highly and said that in his opinion the Russians could not have held out had it not been for American help in equipping the Russian Army. This was obviously true, for almost every piece of equipment that we saw the Russians use was American: they used Sherman tanks for the most part, and our 2 and 1/2 ton trucks, jeeps and armored cars were employed almost exclusively. The Russian fighter planes we saw were all Bell Airacobras...

Francis Sampson, US Army Chaplain

с таким даже спорить не хочется, да ещё на английском.
но вообще я парадоксовские форумы очень люблю. где ещё встретишь собеседника, с которым можно на равных поговорить о Хобсбауме с Геллнером.