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The Real Impact of the Estonian Cyberattack
An anonymous reader writes "News.com offers up an interview with Arbor Networks' senior security researcher Jose Nazario. He takes stock of the denial-of-service attack against the Baltic nation of Estonia, and considers the somewhat disturbing wider implications from the event. 'You look around the globe, and there's basically no limit to the amount of skirmishes between well-connected countries that could get incredibly emotional for the population at large. In this case, it has disrupted the Estonian government's ability to work online, it has disrupted a lot of its resources and attention. In that respect, it's been effective. It hasn't brought the government to a crippling halt, but has essentially been effective as a protest tool. People will probably look at this and say, That works. I think we're going to continue to do this kind of thing. Depending on the target within the government, it could be very visible, or it could not be very visible.'"
Ah, typical western ignorance about WWII.
c tions about reasons of Molotov-Ribentrop pact. In short, western democracies ceded Czechoslovakia to Gitler - Stalin was ready to send army to support Chechs, but Poland had not allowed them to pass. Stalin was a realist and he did not believe that USSR and Nazi Germany could coexist.
Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement#Rea
Also, Poland occupied parts of USSR (yes, you read correctly - in was Poland who occupied parts USSR) in 1921 and Stalin merely liberated USSR territory. Besides, Poland destroyed about 80000 of captured Red Army soldiers and officers...
Also, for 'allied victory' - USSR was the biggest 'ally' in size and manpower.