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Jeßus[_50_]

On Fri, 09 Oct 2015 08:46:28 -0300, wrote:

>On Fri, 09 Oct 2015 13:00:16 +1100, Jeßus > wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 19:55:07 -0600, graham > wrote:
>>
>>>On 08/10/2015 5:22 PM, Je?us wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I particularly love how they associate it with zombies, aliens and
>>>> complete lunatics of one type or another. My Ukrainian grandmother
>>>> still keeps suitcase of tinned food under the bed, because she knows
>>>> what it's like to starve
>>>
>>>There was a German woman who had married a soldier from my English
>>>village after WW2. She had a well stocked pantry with 2 or 3 of most
>>>things (cans, jams etc). When she used anything she always replaced it
>>>immediately as she had known hunger in the 3rd Reich.
>>
>>Yes, things like that seem to change people's perspectives. My
>>grandparents had to deal with Nazis, but the Russians were the ones
>>who did the most harm, not just to them, but the Ukraine in general.
>
>I was thinking of that recently and now here we are again with the
>Russians interfering. Putin is such a Cold War type, it's like he
>has taken them back fifty years.

I'm a little conflicted about Putin, but definitely not the kind of
guy to turn your back on.