Re: a discussion on OIT: attention moderator

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

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> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> > In other words, if Germany and Austria-Hungary had won WWI,
> > Central and Eastern Europe would now be German-speaking, and
> > the Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Czech, Slovak, Polish,
> > Croatian, Slovenian etc languages would be rural minority
> > languages facing the same fate as today faces Lusatian,
> > Byelorussian, Breton, Irish, Livonian, Danish in
> > Southern Schleswig etc: oblivion.
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> ****GK: So had G and A/H won WWI there would not have
> been a WWII? Dream on...(:=)))*****

Well that was meant as 'all other things being equal'.
Also from a Danish point of view that counterfactual scenario would
have been a nightmare.


Torsten