Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!imspw6!bob
From: bob@imspw6.UUCP (Bob Burch)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Russian access to usenet
Keywords: paranoia or adaptation to reality
Message-ID: <204@imspw6.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 88 13:32:18 GMT
Organization: IMS Inc., Rockville, MD
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From: Anna Kochanowska: Visual Edge Software, St. Laurent, PQ
 
>(Do you know that it is forbidden in USSR to make a picture of any post
>office, bridge, railway station etc.? You may simply loose your camera
>and have a lot of troubles. And you expect people to talk about their
>projects, programs and other secrets?!)
 
Do you know that the street signs on the Dutch-West-German border are all
deliberately misleading, presumably to buy the dutch a few extra hours the
next time Hitler or someone like him comes along?
 
A very great deal of what we might see as paranoia on the Russians' part,
they must see as a normal healthy adaptation to reality after 800 years of
dealing with Subudai, Batui, Toqtamesh, Tamerlane, Charles of Sweden,
Napolean, Hitler, etc. etc. etc.
 
Ted Holden
HTE