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Old September 17th, 2004, 09:14 PM
Mike Cordelli
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Starting to think perhaps, just perhaps it wasn't them who was affected by
the paranoia.

He's probably sitting around his red commie bar now banging back a few beers
off your tips laughing at how much fun it was to pretend the vase was
listening to him.




"KathyDFrog" wrote in message
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me, it wasn't just the commies....Russia's
always been like that.


Our Red October guide was often asked about the Communists. While

answering
the questions his head reflexed backward ,over his shoulder; apparently

he was
checking for informants. He must have been an informant himself because

he
could over hear what I whispered to my wife in the back of the van. (I've

seen
this same hyper-hearing sense exhibited by friends who were former

operatives
in 'Nam.)

The glumness and paranoia of the place was pervasive and, inmho, can only

be
explained by citizen memories of the workings of the former socialist

state.