Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!boulder!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!uwmcsd1!ig!jade!ucbvax!cs.umass.EDU!LEWIS From: LEWIS@cs.umass.EDU Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: UUCP to Russia Message-ID: <8710250643.AA21650@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: Sat, 24-Oct-87 22:32:00 EST Article-I.D.: bu-cs.8710250643.AA21650 Posted: Sat Oct 24 22:32:00 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 27-Oct-87 01:41:04 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 17 From: IN%"BattenIG@cs.bham.ac.UK" "Ian G Batten" 24-OCT-1987 04:27 To: Jarmo Sorvari >As I understand it, Finland has something less of a knee-jerk "Commies! >Shoot Now!" mentality than elements of the US government --- with rail >links, for example, it presumably has a rather more normal "this is my >neighbour" policy than the xenophobes might prefer. A perusal of your favorite European history book will reveal that during its existence Finland has fought something like 40 wars with Russia and lost every one. Their "this is my neighbour" policy, or rather their "disinclination to offend my neighbour lest I get my a** kicked yet again" policy, is understandable, but not enviable. David D. Lewis University of Massachusetts, Amherst lewis@cs.umass.edu