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From: miwalker@mizar.usc.edu (Michael Walker)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Medication in CIS
Date: 13 Nov 1992 13:18:17 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: mizar.usc.edu
Summary: be very cautious...
Keywords: Medicine, Health

Rich, I don't have any idea what the nature of your condition is, but
let me warn you, if it is at all serious be VERY cautious about taking
a trip to the xUSSR.  I was there this summer, had a minor medical
problem, but it was enough to scare me pretty well.  They seem to have
almost no medicine whatsoever.  Fortunately, I required none.  But if
you require something special, it is extremely unlikely that you will
be able to get it, at least in a convenient manner.  

Conditions in medical facilities are also a little frightening.  Needles are reused, with only a wipe of alcohol.  Things taken for granted here, even simple
things like bandaids are unknown there.  (I stayed with a doctor's family,
and they'd never even seen one!)  Also, I've been told that if you have a
serious condition, once you check yourself in, you lose all autonomy over
what happens to you.  If they decide you need an operation, you get it,
whether you like it or not!

If all you require is medicine, and you can bring enough, you'll probably 
be fine.  But if you require care, and possibly other medicines you didn't
bring, I think there are few places you'd rather be less.

Mike
From: muh@physics1 (Yury M. Mukharsky)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Reply to S. Borodin (was: Antisemitism and Verbitsky)
Date: 8 Nov 1992 00:22:01 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics1.berkeley.edu

In article <kosinov.721154565@ceg.uiuc.edu> kosinov@ceg.uiuc.edu (Greg Kosinovsky) writes:
>
>Brilliant retort!! However, every child in the world knows that Lenin was to
>Bolshevism what Hitler was to Naziism -- indispensable and absolute.
>
Well, It's interesting demographic observation. From your words I can only
deduce that there are no children in Nebraska where you live now. 
Otherwise I can not understand,
why when you say "every child" you imply "pioner-leninets". 

Every child here in Berkeley know that revolution was done by Lenin
and Trotskii. Just come to Sproul Plaza. There are plenty of Trotskist-
Leninists there. They will explain you that from these two Trotskii was more
equal.

Yury M.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: mkagalen@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (michael kagalenko)
Subject: Re: Fylologi fleim
Keywords: Moskva, Petushki
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 01:52:36 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.191304.17269@husc3.harvard.edu> verbit@brauer.harvard.edu (Mikhail S. Verbitsky) writes:
>
>
>In his article
>mkagalen@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (michael kagalenko) writes:
>>In his article
>zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
>>>In his article 
>>>mkagalen@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (michael kagalenko) writes:
>
>>>>  "Phylology" is the synonym to "impotence"
>
>>>Only for those who cannot spell.
>
>>    OK, sorry :
>
>>    "Philology" is the synonym to "impotence"
>
>"Fylologi" ys ze sinonim to "ympotens"
>
>"In the name of a freedom of a personal choice we revoke
>the spelling!" - A. Krychenykh.
>
>
>               G.G. Allin --You Hate Me & I Hate You
>
>         Well you hate me and I hate you.  You never understand the
>    things that I say or do. (So what's new?)  You never liked me so I
>    say "Fuck you!"  You know you know that you don't like me and I
>    don't like you...
>
>         You never listen to my point of view.  (I'm telling you!)
>    Why don't you all drop dead your fucking fools (it's you who
>    lose.) You never wanted me so I say "Fuck you!"  You know you know
>    that you don't like me and I don't like you...
>
>         You never like that things I say or do (So What'cha gonna
>    do?) Why don't you all go home and go back to school (with your
>    golden rule).  Mindless thoughtless puppets (Who needs you?)
>
>         You know you know that you don't like me and I don't like
>    you...
>         You know you know that you don't like me and I don't like
>    you...
>         You know you know that you don't like me so I say fuck you...
>
>
>That's *real* philology you, Misha, have no guts at.
>All philology discussions with people who don't
>understand how the humanities work are absurd.
>
>
>As Mandelshtam wrote "Cto byla matushka-filologiya
>i chem stala... Byla vsya krov', vsya neterpimost'
>a stala - psya-krov'. Stala psya-terpimost'."
>
>He meant that philology done by diplomed dweebs
>who can only compute numbers of occurencies
>of quotes here and there and comment on these
>quotes is virtually useless... 
>
>Misha.

Numerical criteria for success/failure of posting :

        Number of characters in replies to article
        ------------------------------------------ 
        Number of characters in original article

For my article this value is pretty high already !
( Congratulations accepted )
From: slj1k@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Mormons in Russia
Date: 11 Nov 92 19:33:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: cc.1992Nov11.133332.60699
Organization: Utah State University

Greetings and salutations

I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (the Mormons)
and am interested in knowing if there are any Russian members of the Church who
use the `Net'.  If there are members out there, please tell me how you became 
a member and your ideas and opinions about the Church in Russia.  I'm not doing
this for anything but my for own personal interest (I have a dear friend who is
currently serving a mission for the Church in Moscow), and I represent no one 
but myself.

Please email me at the following address:

Mark L. Reece SLJ1K@CC.USU.EDU.

Thank you
From: nikolay@husc10.harvard.edu (Philip Nikolayev)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: reply to S. Borodin
Date: 7 Nov 92 07:00:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc10.NIKOLAY.92Nov6230044
Organization: The Kremlin Wall of Harvard
In-reply-to: sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu's message of 6 Nov 92 18:21:04 GMT

sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin) writes:

> In article <NIKOLAY.92Nov5232427@husc10.harvard.edu>
> nikolay@husc10.harvard.edu (Philip Nikolayev) writes:

>>sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin) writes:

>>> In article <1992Nov5.193138.28842@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK>
>>> @ee.surrey.ac.uk (null) writes:

SB
>>>  A lot of stuff which has nothing to do with my posting and, as
>>> customized here, accusses me in a sort of a membership in
>>> "Pamyat'" and other Neo- Nazi organizations.

>>>  Dear Mr. Null, You defenetly missunderstood my posting. And I
>>>  would
>>> appreciate if you will read BEFORE start typing an answer. 

PN
>>Perhaps you should learn to write before you post.

SB
>  Ja, pozhalui, po russki: A ne poiti li Vam na hui, sudar'?
> Kazhetsa, chto Vam tam i mesto.  

Net, v Pennsilvanski Universitet menia ne tianet.

SB
> U Vas, kak ja zametil, lichshe
> poluchaetsja kommentirovat' Patriciju, da i ne udivitelno -
> nakinulis' tolpoi na slabuju zhenschinu i kluete.

Milion izvineni. Prezhde chem uchit'sia pisat', nauchites' 
sperva chitat'. Maloveroyatno, no vdrug poluchitsia.

Phil.
From: avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Roubles and Dollars
Date: 5 Nov 1992 15:05:16 -0500
Organization: Berkeley Software Design

In article <1992Nov4.213545.3173@nas.nasa.gov> bross@splatter.nas.nasa.gov (Wilson S. Ross) writes:
>A normal explanation for inflation is that the gov't is printing
>money like crazy. Is there any other evidence of this? I.e. I
>imagine this is why prices in rubles would be rising (other than 
>scarcity of goods), while the rate relative to the dollar might 
>depend on other factors. Personally I doubt that the hard currency
>stores are affecting the ruble's value much.

The inflation does not depend on *printing* the banknotes. It depends
mostly on "immaterial" money emerging in a form of credits to money-loosing
state enterprises. Exactly the same stuff and S&L scam in US, but on much
larger scale.

The dollar to rouble rate mostly has a psychological impact -- the current
auction rates (which can jump up and down 30% daily) are the only source
of any information -- and therefore they determine which rate is considered
good on the streets. The auction rates, in turn, are determined by large
byers and sellers which basically are state enterprises with their "immaterial"
roubles. No wonder, the auction rate is much higher than "real" rate you
can get exchanging goods. That's why the barter export-import deals are
so popular. The shortage of supply of cash dollars contributes to higher
rate as well.

Practically it means that the dollar-rouble rate remains meaningless when
comparing life levels. The second effect is that any business running the
dollars-->goods-->roubles-->dollars scheme should be quite agile to remain
on water. Roubles->goods->roubles scheme is more stable. The roubles->goods->
dollars->roubles is currently emerging -- it requires a lot of efforts to
penetrate saturated Western markets.

The question of exchange rates is sensitive exactly because there is no
any reasonable system of generating balanced prices and dollars play the
role of presumeably stable (HHOS) base for determining the price margins.
It also means that people in xSU are much more aware of realities of Western
ecomony that people in the West of xSU's.

--vadim
From: ecopaulz@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Paul Zarembka)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: articles on Soviet-style systems in Research in POLITICAL ECONOMY, 1992
Keywords: Soviet, economy, politics
Date: 8 Nov 92 22:10:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
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From: pv02@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (PETER VOROBIEFF)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Andrei Rublov, Zeppelins and , hmm, Verbitsky
Date: 10 Nov 92 17:56:12 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1992Nov9.193950.7317@galois.mit.edu>, verbit@cauchy.mit.edu (Mikahil Verbitski) writes:


>	The first part of film, which is actually a prologue, has
>	a symbolic meaning. It depicts a semi-folklore story
>	about Russian monk who invented a zeppelin (circa 1580)

Hmm... The most prominent authorities in folklore study have
agreed that the thing that monk invented was not a Zeppelin,
but a Volksvagen.

>	Misha.

A kto zh estcho...







-- 
Thus spake Kalmoth the Vile, Slayer of the Seven Pigs of the North.
Xref: sparky soc.culture.soviet:9801 rec.arts.books:19796
From: verbit@brauer.harvard.edu (Mikhail S. Verbitsky)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Fylologi fleim
Keywords: Moskva, Petushki
Date: 10 Nov 92 02:39:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Nov9.213958.17281
 <1992Nov9.191304.17269@husc3.harvard.edu> <1992Nov9.205208.17277@husc3.harvard.edu>
Organization: Sozialistische Patienten Kollektiv

In article <1992Nov9.205208.17277@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:

>verbit@brauer.harvard.edu (Mikhail S. Verbitsky) writes:

>MV:
>>"Fylologi" ys ze sinonim to "ympotens"

>>"In the name of a freedom of a personal choice we revoke
>>the spelling!" - A. Krychenykh.

[ GG Allin masterpiece mercifully deleted ]


>>That's *real* philology you, Misha, have no guts at.

>Duh.  Not guts, interest.  Let us try to keep this conversation on an
>impersonal level, especially since your terminal pallor and delicate
>constitution really do not go too well with all this macho talk.

	hehe I was a sportsmen back in Russia (lifted 240 pounds on my back)
	I guess you never were one :)

>Young man, you are no Osip Mandelshtam.  Let me put it bluntly:
>between the topics of the merits of philology, the personalities of
>the three Michaels, your relentless search for the meaning of life in
>rap lyrics, and the immortal prose poem _Moskva -- Petushki_, there is
>only one that I find worthy of discussion.  There are no points for
>guessing which one it is.

	But: that's not me who uses personal talk instead of serious discussion.
	Who started all those "you are the mathematician, don't talk about
	philology" mumble but you? 

	One more sidenote: GG Allin belongs to the subject of philology
	no less than some Swiss professional. But the professional
	is usually devoid of thing GG has in abundance: emotions.
	That's why I wanted to repost his eternally genuine
	lyrics :) And in his rage *he* is more relevant to
	the author of "Valpurgius' Night" (wrong spelling, I 
	know) than most of this discussion. BTW, do you really
	think GG is a rap musician? That's ignorance, you
	know: he is not a musician at all :) but the 
	American prisoner of conscience (one of many :)
	Sapienty sat. 

	Misha.
From: VIZNYUK@MPS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (SERGEI VIZNYUK)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Some private news from Moscow
Date: 10 Nov 92 21:00:00 GMT
Reply-To: "soc.culture.soviet via ListServ" <SCS-L@indycms.iupui.edu>

Today I got an e-mail letter from one my friend. He came
back to Moscow (Space Research Institute) from Harvard
recently. I think the audience would be interested to
read an exempts. Could someone translate the Russian
part ?  The original, as you can see below is a mix of
English and Russian.

-------

Here, in fact, all is not so bad, as you may have imagined reading Novoe
russkoe slovo. $ is just passed 400 rub today (403 rub/$). Prices
are still on the level of approx 100 times of doperestroechnykh, so you
can calculate that the real rate is about 30-50 rub/$ . I dont think
there's any serious chances to remove Yeltsin; I even think that this
sjezd on i Gaidar vyigrajut. Voobsche, though it may be my private
feeling, no mne kazhetsia, chto nastroenie u vsekh okruzhajuschikh
uluchshaetsia, i vsio ne vygliadit uzhe tak mrachno. Institutu
nachali vydeliat' dengi, i t.p. (No, mozhet byt', mne vsio viditsia v
rozovom svete, potomu chto u menia vsio esche est' nemnozhko horoshego
coffee:-) I think why not to get a voucher. However, their market price
right now is 5,000 rub. But its as much stupid as its nominal 10,000
(and as 403 rub/$), potomu chto vsio, chto s nim mozhno sdelat' priamo
seichas -- eto prodat' za poltseny srazu posle vykhoda iz sberkassy,
gde ego poluchajut. Po otsenke Commersanta, na 1 voucher prikhoditsia
about 200,000 rub proizv. fondov (v tsenakh avgusta 1992), no ochen'
nizkorentabelnykh, poetomu runochn. tsena ego budet  nizkaya. But 5,000
is too suspiciously close to its stupid nominal price 10,000 rub, which
we know is set up arbitrarily, so 5,000 seems to be arbitrary as well.
What they (government) may do is to begin to sell something only for
vouchers (say, land, or flats, or whatever). Your parents must get the
voucher before the new year.

Incombank begin to exchange traveller cheques (dont know for what charge
though); and i even read (from an extremely unclear article in
Commersant) that, in some hotel, a normal ATM machine is installed
(didnt check yet).

Vypustili monetu 50 rub, dvukhtsvetnuyu, s orlom. V metro sdelali
prozrachnye zelenye zhetony, kotorye postoyanno zastrevayut i ne
srabatyvajut. sobirayutsia delat' zhetony dlia tel.-avtomatov. Meloch'
voobsche vyshla iz obraschenija -- vse tseny okrugliajutsia do rublei.
poetomu ne na chto zvonit' iz avtomatov, kotorye vsio eshe na dvushkah.

Na 7-8-9 nojabria byl normalnyi vykhodnoi. kto-to tam demonstriroval,
no kak-to ne ebet nikogo.

Ladno, nado delom zaniatsia.
-----
Xref: sparky soc.culture.soviet:9708 rec.arts.books:19637
From: dima@maths.uwa.oz.au (Dima Pasechnik)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Venedikt Erofejev: Moskva - Petushki
Date: 7 Nov 1992 03:10:51 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: madvax.maths.uwa.oz.au
Keywords: Mockva,Petushki

verbit@coolidge.harvard.edu (Mikhail S. Verbitsky) writes:

>dima@maths.uwa.oz.au (Dima Pasechnik) writes:

>>karttu@mits.mdata.fi (Antti Karttunen) writes:

>>>Just read the Finnish translation of "Moskva - Petushki" few days ago,
>>>written by Venedikt Erofejev (alternatively transcribed Yerofeev).
>>>I won't tell here what I think about it, because there are no
>>>appropriate words in English for that. But anyway, few questions:
>>(I doubt, btw., that the translation is good.  The thing seems to be hard
>>to translate. Like Henry Miller, say.)

>>I have a question instead. Have you ever read a REAL literature?
>>Say, poems.

>It is obvious to any thinking body who read his article
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^         
I prefer to read using my head only (not whole body, sorry). 
It seems you've joined another netter who tought some persons how to read
using assholes.
 
>that he had. Had you? Say, Henry Miller? 
Yes, and what?

Anyway, Antti had recommended the book as a treatment from hangover, not
for other purposes. 
Since you've not read his message from the beginning to the end, as I
suspect, you've not caught its feeling.

Maybe the point is that you don't think that "Moskva-Petushki" is REAL
literature. In this case your letter is quite understandable, however.
It is in the same line as you don't understand why your attitude towards 
V.Vysocky may be isulting for other people.
Thus my remark, though too strong, I agree, was just a reaction to
Antti's attitude towards the book.

>Your remark is plain insulting, while Antti have not written 
>anything to provoke you. Shame.

>Misha.

Dima.
From: rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (Jeff Bytof)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:16:01 GMT
Organization: ucsd
NNTP-Posting-Host: lutherlab.ucsd.edu

>>off on the Chinese border.  A home of their own!  To hell with the natives,

>Mmm, why does Israel come into my mind at this point?

>>or the fact that there has never been any Jews in the area.  It's the
>>thought, if any, that counts.

Well, the Jews did used to own Isreal, and had it taken away from them.

---------------------------
rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: ikg1591@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Irina Kosinovsky )
Subject: Re: State Antisemitism in Russia (was re: reply to S. Borodin)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 15:42:40 GMT

For those on the net who deny state supported antisemitism:
you might want to check out Nora Levin's "History of the russian jews
since 1917" -- a historical book with many copies of documents provided.
(a very dry emotioneless book that just states facts)
Of course you are free to disregard it as "another piece of jewish propaganda",
which is probably what you are going to do anyways. 
Well, who said I caouldn't try? 

Ira
From: rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (Jeff Bytof)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 01:36:09 GMT
Organization: ucsd
NNTP-Posting-Host: lutherlab.ucsd.edu


I'm looking here at a National Geographic map of the Soviet Union (1990).

Way over in the east (bounded by China, Amur and Khabarovsk) is the small
region labeled "Jewish A.O. (Autonomous Oblast)".  I would appreciate it
if anyway could enlighten me on the history and current status of this
small area of the Soviet Union.

Thank!
Jeff Bytof
rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: bil@burka..aix.kingston.ibm.com (Igor Belchinskiy)
Subject: Re: Leave Vysotsky alone! (was Re: A blasphemy...)
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 21:10:07 GMT
Organization: Be. I am.

In article <92310.125601VABHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <VABHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
>Anybody, any person, and Shnittke also may say anything he wants. Even he said
>what you wrote, it wouldn't reflect on my opinion, that he's music is good.

You are so generous :-) Yet Shnitke sounded as responsible person.

>However, would you tell me, where  and whed he did it, please? 

When: some years ago when Vysotsky became officially accepted and
his 50th (I think) anniversary was celebrated with all the sounds
and fury possible all over the radio, TV, ethereal, printed, sea
and other waves.
Where: TV, I think, though may be Ogonek or radio as well.
Though I vaguely remember precense of other talkative person - Molchanov?
Ryazanov? Mark Zakharov? Sorry, no idea.

>Also, can anyone give me his current address, please?

Ask in Time Magazine.

>                                         Vadim.
Hope this helps
From: vadik@cs.umd.edu (Vadim Maslov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Andrei Rublov (film)
Date: 10 Nov 92 03:36:19 GMT
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742

In article <1992Nov9.193950.7317@galois.mit.edu> verbit@cauchy.mit.edu (Mikahil Verbitski) writes:
>
>	The first part of film, which is actually a prologue, has
>	a symbolic meaning. It depicts a semi-folklore story
>	about Russian monk who invented a zeppelin (circa 1580).
>

Ha-ha-Ha. Russia is not only a Motherland of Elephants but
also of celebrities like M. Verbitsky. 

Not knowing difference between zeppelin and hot air balloon 
(which was actually shown in Tarkovsky's film) Mr. Verbitsky
clearly demonstrates that well-brewed national spirit combined with 
superior Harvard education may produce truly impressive results.

Vadim Maslov.
From: pv02@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (PETER VOROBIEFF)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Vysotsky flame: loop #3
Date: 5 Nov 92 18:31:35 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

Another flame. Guys and girls who are bored of this do not read.
This one is really dumb. 




















In article <1992Nov4.233719.17115@husc3.harvard.edu>, verbit@coolidge.harvard.edu (Mikhail S. Verbitsky) writes:
>Joint adventure by me and PETER VOROBIOFF

Post something once more - and I'll sue U 4 libel, slander & diffamation.


>
>see subject, koziol
>
>"Subject:" line, I mean
>
>Trick or treat?
>
>		BOO!!!

I am not impressed. Even a stillborn kitten must have a better
skill in creating invectives than U. And your Mom would be very upset
if she ever learned that you use such low language.

>A voobshche vse baby dury
>
>Nu kak nravitsya?
>
>Dumaesh', ya skoro konchu?

I am sure that you are unable of the action of ejaculation, 
which the slang word "konchu" is meant to describe. 

>
>I pravil'no!

Yes, it makes me sure that my guess about your balls, the 
black disease etc. is but correct.


May the maggots dine with your entrails.


-- 
Thus spake Kalmoth the Vile, Slayer of the Seven Pigs of the North.