Re: Russia Getting Set To Pull An Uncle Al?

From: zolota (zolota3_at_REMOVEshaw.ca)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:20:09 GMT

"Hyperoglyphe" <hyperoglyphe@schlockmail.com> wrote in message
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> "zolota" <zolota3@REMOVEshaw.ca> wrote in message
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>> "mitch perkins" <mitchsperkins@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>> Russian revolution was a real heartbreaker; supposed to help the
>>> average Joe, instead, old Stalin murdered some what, 30-40 million of
>>> them (not including the war, during which POWs who escaped and made it
>>> back home were shot! "You were in the hands of the enemy; you must be
>>> a spy." Soltzenystin's "Gulag Archipelago" will make you weep!
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>> Actually, few were shot. They were instead worked to death building the
>> factories of the cold war, like nuclear facilities. There are many public
>> parks in the FSU that are in fact mass graves. I stood on one last July,
>> there is no historic sign, no list of names in a file somewhere, nothing
>> to remember them by.
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> I'm a real fan of the "Road of Bones":
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> http://www.ursa.fi/~riikonen/luidentie1l.html
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>
> Dave

I've been on that road. What was more impressive is the millions of people
who died in the whole area according to the locals. And cold? You could
freeze the balls of a brass monkey there.

Z

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