German elections return a centre-right government

[Aemilius Paulus]

Aemilius Paulus, my post was not so hostile to you as it might have seemed when you first read it. I'd recommend reading it again before taking that tone.

Sorry, but I did not write as hostile, but mildly exasperated. Knowing the mods here (well, actually, in the Frontroom - Banquo is a very reasonable and fair person), I will have to change it before I get an infraction.

Thanks for the warning

In any case, were you being sarcastic? At first I did not think so, but knowing you I doubted you would actually admit something good about USSR. In addition, you hinted at your experience as if it was a jab in my direction, knowing that I had no experience. Perhaps you were angered by my discourse on a subject you experienced firsthand (if you actually did). That is quite annoying, as what I said (the subsidies and favour-seeking) before was fact, not opinion. No Western author denies that life in Soviet Eastern Block 'Allies' was at least noticeably vastly superior to the mudpit of Russia.