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From: dkhusema@faui45.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Dirk Husemann)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re^2: Russian access to usenet
Keywords: paranoia or adaptation to reality
Message-ID: <776@faui10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 19 Dec 88 10:05:15 GMT
References: <204@imspw6.UUCP> <5141@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
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miket@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Mike Trout) writes:

>In article <204@imspw6.UUCP>, bob@imspw6.UUCP (Bob Burch) writes:

>> 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.

>> 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?

	This - simply said - is garbage! Where did you get this kind of
stories? National Enquirer? Gimme a break! Just how much *do* you believe?

	By the way, we are working on establishing an ARPANET access for
the Central University of Mars - but we'll make this link appear to come
from Moscow, because in case they ever try to retail for getting dump mail,
Moscow will be the one how gets it ... (Clever, hu?)

>> 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.

>Excellent point.  Who could blame them?  Invading Russia is almost a Planet
> ...
> 
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