The New Nation - Internet Edition

To the great surprise and disappointment of the USA and European powers the former USSA (now Russia) developed atom bomb in 1949 within four years the USA dropped two atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasald in 1945 killing and maiming millions of Japanese.

Germany started World War I as well as World War II and carried out annihilation, holocaust ruin and destructions all over the world. Why did not the USA drop atom bomb on Berlin, the GHQ of the German hordes but instead dropped two atom bombs on a less dangerous and weak country Japan?

Immediately after World War II the USA and the USSR (now Russia) who fought shoulder to shoulder against the German forces stood apart for their respective gains, socio-economic and political ideology and military strategy.

The USA and some of her allies in Europe did not like the economic and scientific prosperity, rise in military power and the influence of the USSR in international affairs.

The USA and her allies in Europe started conspiring and creating division, disunity and mistrust among soviet leaders.

After demise of great Soviet leader Josef Stalin in 1953, forceful retirement of Nikita Krushchev in 1964, mysterious deaths of Andropov and Chenenko followed by power struggle between Gorvachev and Boris Yeltsin USSR plunged into darkness and dissolved in 1990.

After a lull of cold war, very long sleep like Rip Van Winkle, when Russia has woken up finds her many many properties and valuables lost and stolen.

Russia (former USSR) and the USA have never waged war against one another but they have confronted, disputed, criticised and condemned each other on many issues. They are good chess players in international political affairs.

O.H. Kabir

Dhaka