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From: raymond@utpsych.toronto.edu (Raymond Shaw)
Newsgroups: news.misc,talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.soviet
Subject: Re: Beyond Perestroika
Summary: apologies to ethnic groups
Keywords: flame, spelling, Russian
Message-ID: <1989Apr5.194210.6743@utpsych.toronto.edu>
Date: 5 Apr 89 19:42:10 GMT
References: <3982@kremvax.mosc.cccp> <1989Apr3.195354.18038@utpsych.toronto.edu> <4643@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: raymond@psych.toronto.edu (Raymond Shaw)
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In article <4643@pt.cs.cmu.edu> sergei@JERUSALEM.MT.CS.CMU.EDU (Sergei Nirenburg) writes:
>In article <1989Apr3.195354.18038@utpsych.toronto.edu> raymond@psych.toronto.edu (Raymond Shaw) writes:
>>Mikey, Mikey.  We can forgive Brezhnev for not speaking Russian well,
>>after all, he was Georgian. 
>
>I always thought he was the son of a Bulgarian immigrant. The sound of the
>name supports it. He is definitely not Georgian, and his accent was heavily
>Ukrainian.
>

My sincere apologies to any Georgians or others who may have been offended.
In fact, my apologies to any one else who may have been offended by the 
claim that Brezhnev was a Georgian.  I was operating on an obviously
fuzzy memory, and had no evidence to back up my claim.  Thank you for your
correction, Sergei.

-Raymond Shaw