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From: alexis@reed.UUCP (Alexis Dimitriadis)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Russian access to usenet
Keywords: paranoia :-)
Message-ID: <11463@reed.UUCP>
Date: 31 Dec 88 04:09:21 GMT
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Reply-To: alexis@reed.UUCP (Alexis Dimitriadis)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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> [Russian rails are wider]
> >This is a common explanation of the width of Russian railways.
> >However it is a typical example of Western paranoia, it is not true ...

The rail system in Peloponnesus (a large peninsula in southern Greece) also
has the wide rails; the rest of Greece is standard.  These folks are really 
paranoid about being invaded by northern Greece (more :-) than you realise).

BTW, the British drive on the left side of the road in a ploy to create
impassable traffic jams if they're ever invaded; it's worked great for 922
years and counting :-))).