Re: Secret Soviet Space Losses

On Jan 28, 3:34 pm, Eric Chomko <pne.cho...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 27, 9:56 pm, behlin...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:



I thought Pravda meant truth...

(ducking)

Indeed :) but it came to mean the truth as the gowernment whished it
to be believed as being. That truth was cleary an extremelly mallable
thing.

This might interest anyone who is not a Putin fan:

The Myth of the Authoritarian Model: How Putin's Crackdown Holds
Russia Back
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20080101faessay87105/michael-mcfaul-kathryn-stoner-weiss/the-myth-of-the-authoritarian-model.html


Einar
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