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From: brt@pyuxvv.UUCP (B Reytblat)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: missing words
Message-ID: <186@pyuxvv.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Dec-83 21:16:57 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  9 21:16:57 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Dec-83 00:39:05 EST
Organization: Bell Labs, Piscataway
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	The following is offered without comment :

About 30 min ago (8:30 pm 12/9/83) , cn 11 (WPIX ?) started the
live broadcast of the USA-USSR exibition hockey game from Lake Placid ,NY.
Before the start of the game both national anthems were played .
The soviet anthem was sung by a male singer with a rather heavy accent
(in russian) , possibly ukrainian or polish .
The text , as sung , was a version never heard in the soviet union .
All references to the communist party , communism or socialism (of which
the real soviet anthem is chock full) were conspicuously absent . They
were replaced by some semi-nonsensical set of russian words (something
about "bright victory")....
As the soviet anthem was being played , the camera showed closeups of
the faces of the soviet players . They appeared somewhat confused .
I (think) , I may have seen a smile or two ....

And so it goes.....
			B.Reytblat
			...!pyuxvv!brt

p.s. at the first intermission : USA 0	:  USSR 1
p.p.s. to: Piet Baartem(?sp). Sir , you are blind .