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From: wilde@apollo.uucp (Scott Wilde)
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Subject: Re: We're really all Veccuppians...
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 14:18:17 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 29 14:18:17 1985
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>In article <32900001@siemens.UUCP> rick@siemens.UUCP writes:
>> ...we may call people from the U.S.S.R. Russians but they are more
>>properly addressed as Soviets.  (Just as people from the Irish Republic are
>>Irish).
>
>Sorry.  A "soviet" is a legislative body.  It makes no more sense to call a
>citizen of the Soviet Union a "Soviet" than it does to call a citizen of the
>United States a "Congress."  
 >
>Evidence for my claim: ...

 Try again. According to Webster's II , under soviet:             

...2. Soviets. The government and people of the Soviet Union.

                                                      Scott Wilde
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