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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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Subject: CCCP -- Russia
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Date: Sat, 19-Nov-83 12:57:59 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 19 12:57:59 1983
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I am embarrassed. In some moment of strange mental aberration,
I posted an article in which I said that CCCP was the Cyrillic
form for the Russian Republic. As several people have kindly
pointed out, it means the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,
or USSR. Russia is RSFSR (there is no Roman letter shape for
the F, so I can't type it as if it were Cyrillic), and is one
of the Republics in the Union. My only explanation for the
error is that at the end of a long day I was so astonished and
annoyed at Plunkett's ignorant diatribe that this stupidity slipped out.

Martin Taylor