re: #504 ckkatz

I was at Ft Sill, Oklahoma at the time. My thought at the time, which I still have not answered was “If everything you are fighting for is destroyed and killed, is there a point to continue fighting.” I felt that if I were dead, it wouldn’t matter. If I were on a surviving ship, I guess that it would be a modern Odyssey.

I was truly grateful when Gorbachov surrendered rather than take the world down with the Soviet Union. I assumed that it had to do with the memory of World War 2 and the slaughter of 15% of the Soviet population. With the survivors never really recovering.

Russia has still not recovered from that slaughter.