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statistics put the Red Army"s losses during the liberation of the former Czechoslovakia at 140,000 people. Fighting in Slovakia accounts for at least 60,000 of that number, and the Slovaks remember this. Unlike the neighboring Czech Republic and Poland, Slovakia has preserved almost all its monuments to Soviet soldiers. There are memorial plaques marking the sites of the heaviest fighting in Bratislava. Local historians and analysts agree that the Soviet soldiers gave Slovakia the only thing they could - freedom from the Nazis. The soldiers could not help the Slovaks resolve all of their problems or bring economic prosperity and universal freedom to the country if only because they did not have them in their own country. But they brought an end to the greatest danger that existed in Europe at that time - long-term Nazi domination. Today people tend to forget this alternate history to our common victory in World War II.
In "A Short History of the World",
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