"Or was that a question of what shade of Socialist you wanted to call yourself - National Socialist or Communist Socialist. "

Now that, I would suggest is flaming - and in no way justified by anything I had said. I do not believe I have ever made a personal attack on Teribus (or anyone else for that matter) comparable to that. If I ever I would be ashamed to have done so, more especially because I would see it as damaging to the Mudcat.

The reason the Russians weren't put on trial for the numerous war crimes they committed was the same reason they that Allies weren't (for example fro the bombing of Dresden). They won the war.

I hope that some day things won't work that way and that the people on the winning side will be compelled to stick within the agreed intenational laws about what constitutes criminal conduct in war. (And I am not suggesting that it is possiblke to wage war without doing extremely nasty things - I am just saying that there are agreed limits on what can be done, and those agreements should be adhered to.)