HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: thietaniemi@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,talk.politics.soviet
Subject: Re: ESTONIA existed and exists (Was: "SOME
Date: 28 Sep 92 14:52:25 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki


Sorry about the previous posting (a duplicate): blame (and flame)
the Helsinki University central computer!

In article <1992Sep28.143839.1@cc.helsinki.fi>, thietaniemi@cc.helsinki.fi
writes:

>> I think we have even some MORAL reasons to recognize the existence of
>> the Estonian republic that was unjustly wiped out by Stalin.

Because of some misunderstandings, ad nauseam: which kind of moral reasons?
It might not hurt repeating my simple argumentation:

- World history has, of course, been a horror story filled with injustices.
Rectifying all of them would be even logically impossible.

- After the first world war, however, the civilized nations have set
up organizations that promote the peace: The United Nations and it's
predecessor, the League of Nations. We should recognize and protect
the independence of the states recognized by these organizations,
which form the international community. This is not much, but it
is the best we have: there is no logical necessity to make this
commitment, but it seems to be a prudent approach to various political
problems.

- My country has made the moral commitment cited above, which I do
appreciate. This moral commitment, which is shared by many, has many
implications, which I might discuss later on.

Candida pro causa ense candido!
Tapani Hietaniemi, University of Helsinki
From: vadik@cs.umd.edu (Vadim Maslov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Internet in Russia
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:14:27 GMT

Hi, guys

It looks like there is a stable (but slow) connection to kremvax.
Look:

telnet kremvax.hq.demos.su
Trying 192.91.186.8 ...
Connected to kremvax.hq.demos.su.
Escape character is '^]'.

kremvax (%t)
login: who
Password:
Login incorrect

................


> ftp kremvax.hq.demos.su
Connected to kremvax.hq.demos.su.
220 kremvax FTP server (Ultrix Version 4.10 Mon Nov 7 15:52:11 EST 1988) ready.
Name (kremvax.hq.demos.su:vadik): anonymous
530 User anonymous unknown.
Login failed.
ftp> 221 Goodbye.


................

> finger @kremvax.hq.demos.su
[kremvax.hq.demos.su]
Login       Name              TTY Idle    When            Office
dvv      Dmitry V. Volodin     co      Mon 13:09   DEMOS       23-1-2-1-29
uunils   nils.msk.su           00      Mon 20:18
uuaha    aha.msk.su            01      Mon 20:26
uumagicd mag

...............


So it's accessible for general public.
That's a really big piece of progress.
Congratulations!

-- 

Vadim Maslov.
From: AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU (Entropy Warrior)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Americans and movies: something's wrong
Date: 28 Sep 92 05:36:15 GMT
Reply-To: "soc.culture.soviet via ListServ" <SCS-L@indycms.iupui.edu>

> How 'bout "Thelma and Louise". It is a recent movie and it made quite a
>  lot of
> $$$.

> /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> ///
> // Ryan: What is it to you, demon?       //// Sergei Shimkevich
>  //


Thelma and Louise was depressing?

-Mka
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: suresh <suresh@halcyon.com>
Subject: internet mail in lathuania
Originator: bbs@halcyon.com
Keywords: lithuania
Reply-To: all
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 01:27:22 GMT

  I would like to find out if there is internet mail in lithuania....
 more specificly vytautas magnus university kaunas lithuania....
  please post here or send mail to suresh@pain.la.ca.us    thanks
From: sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Spelling...
Date: 2 Oct 92 21:04:59 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Oct02.133106.17836@watson.ibm.com> bil@burka..aix.kingston.ibm.com (Igor Belchinskiy) writes:

>Dostoevsky asks in Anna Karamazoff, why there are so many average individuals
 
   It looks like Anna Karenina got devorced and married one of Karamasov's
  brother. 

  But I completely agree with Feodor Michalych.

>	-igor

  S.B.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: bil@burka..aix.kingston.ibm.com (Igor Belchinskiy)
Subject: Re: Bulgakov
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 13:31:45 GMT
Organization: Be. I am.

In article <1992Sep29.001827.15927@husc3.harvard.edu> verbit@coolidge.harvard.edu (Mikhail S. Verbitsky) writes:
	[...]
>The writers similar in style and views to the early Bulgakov,
>notably Veresaev and Bunin were also antisemitic (and Chekhov!)
>I guess, something to do with degenerating aristocracy
>despising newcomers in culture. Funny thing is that
>there were no antisemits in decadent wing of literature,
>while almost everybody in the traditionalist wing was.
>One more way to see that traditionalism sucks.
>
>Misha.

Patrisha v sobstvennyh ryadah.

Brat'ya-antisemity - Bulgakov-Bunin (and Chekhov!).
Dva orlinyh kryla literatury. 
Gde zhe tushka - uzhe razdelali?
Vkusno bylo?

Yes, this *IS* substantial, indeed!

	-igor
From: voykhans@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Dve Sud'bu (Krivaja da ...)
Date: 28 Sep 92 10:41:00 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In article <9209281456.AA15655@enet-gw.pa.dec.com>, alex@took.enet.dec.com ("Alex Allister Shvartsman, EMF,              LKG2-2/T2 28-Sep-1992 1041") writes:
> RE: Sergey Vizniuk : viznyuk@OHSTPW.MPS.OHIO-STATE.EDU
> 
>> "Krivaia da nelegkaia" is really very _powerfull_ . The version I used
>> to listen to was "presented" by Vysotsky on his Paris concert (?).
>> This version probably was the best, IMHO. In France they made
>> LP after that concert.
> 
> If both Sergey and I agree, then it must be a REALLY GREAT song. :-)
> 
> I am of course serious in calling it a great song. In my opinion, in
> its fullest version, this song is the most powerful among Vysocki's
> songs. There are other songs that contain thinly veiled criticim of
> the Soviet system. This song contains very little criticism. Yet the
> message is extremely powerful... However I'd rather discuss it when
> we have the text in front of us. Let me just speculate that the song
> can be linked to the confession of a Moscovite atheist posted here
> several months ago.
> 
> Alex
From: smir+@CS.CMU.EDU (Yury Smirnov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: wireing money
Date: 30 Sep 92 14:56:24 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University

In article <1992Sep29.231124.1436@cnsvax.uwec.edu>, cookliwj@cnsvax.uwec.edu writes:
|> Does anyone know how I may send money to someone in St. Petersburg other than
|> by mail ( like western union ) ?
|> 
|> Please respond e-mail.
|> 
|> Thanks,
|> 
|> Bill

  It was claimed that from January 1, 1993 Credit Leone will start
  full-scale service in St-Petersburg. Dresdener Bank was also going
  to do it, but didn't indicate the exact date.
   
  Now if you are transfering company's money from a West bank to a 
  Russian bank it usually takes 1-2 months.

  On Sunday the Ukranian community in Pittsburgh announced by public
  radio about an opportunity of fast (3 days) and reliable delivery 
  of hard currency by telegramm, food, medicine and appliances 
  (including bicycles ) to the Ukrain. If anybody interested, I can
   post phone number.

   Yury.
From: dtokarew@tokafew.Doc.Provo.Novell.COM (Deb Tokarewich)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: wireing money
Keywords: Ukraine
Date: 1 Oct 92 15:03:33 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc.

In article <BvEC62.GGA.1@cs.cmu.edu> smir+@CS.CMU.EDU (Yury Smirnov)  
writes:

>   On Sunday the Ukranian community in Pittsburgh announced by public
>   radio about an opportunity of fast (3 days) and reliable delivery 
>   of hard currency by telegramm, food, medicine and appliances 
>   (including bicycles ) to the Ukrain. If anybody interested, I can
>    post phone number.

Yuri,

Yes, please post that phone number. Thanks.

Deb
From: vadik@cs.umd.edu (Vadim Maslov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: CIS on the internet
Date: 28 Sep 92 17:19:04 GMT
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742

In article <60655@mimsy.umd.edu> cema@cs.umd.edu (Simon Hawkin) writes:
>In article <60636@mimsy.umd.edu> vadik@cs.umd.edu (Vadim Maslov) writes:
>>
>> <...> There are many places in xSU
>>connected to e-mail but certainly not to Internet.
>>That is, (almost) nobody in xSU can use ftp, talk, nntp and other
>>Internet features.
>
>Not quite right. When I was cema@paragraph.msk.su, I could ftp.
>However, not in a real-time fashion. As far as I know, a machine
>in @kiae.su is calling another machine @fuug.fi (in Finland)
>every 4 hours or so.
>

That really means that you used e-mail to send message
to mail-ftp bridge. This bridge "called" FTP site and sent
back e-mail containing files you've asked.
So you did not really use Internet feature.


The general impression is that Internet connectivity
to xSU cited in message of Vadim Antonov was mase possible 
by using phone line and modems.
TCP/IP specification doesn't specify physical medium
for transfer of data. You can do it by 2400 baud modem.
It is very slow but it should work.

It's quite possible that's the reason of unavailability
of Internet connectivity to xSU for general public.

-- 

Vadim Maslov.
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Monday, 5 Oct 1992 13:47:49 CDT
From: <U52148@uicvm.uic.edu> (Chicago Cro)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Languages in Ex-Soviet Union

In reading the original article, Mr. Jennings, I believe, is trying to
ask for the status of the languages in all of the republics, and more
importantly, those in the Russian Federation. I'm Croatian, so
I'm no expert by any means. If you want info on the languages in the Russian
Federation, PRIOR to the breakup, you may want to read soviet encyclopedias
which you might have in your university library. I know, I've read them in
my school. Currently, it's another matter. I would venture to guess that the
various autonomous republics in Russia are asserting themselves linguistically.
Those that are probably the most vocal of these are Tatarstan and Chechenya,
who would be independent of Moscow, and those who are not so vocal like
Mordovia and Kalmykia. I'll keep a keen eye on anything from the groups
in the Russian Federation and i'll post it here.

-Chicago Cro
From: miwalker@mizar.usc.edu (Michael Walker)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: More education talk...
Date: 2 Oct 1992 09:08:05 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: mizar.usc.edu
Keywords: education and cheating...

I have been following this debate over the relative merits and demerits of the educational systems in the U.S. and xU.S.S.R., and had a question I'd like to
throw open to some of the Soviet educated people who post here.  How prevalent is cheating in academic institutions?  I have a few Russian friends, and a few
Byelorussian friends who still live in Minsk.  While visiting them this summer
one of the girls (who seemed very upright and moral) told me she had used a cheat-sheet during and exam, and the discussion that followed seemed to indicate this was a very commom practice.  I am just wondering how much of a problem this is.  Certainly goes on here too, but the casual way this was expressed to me really suprised me, especially considering how conservative these people were in most other ways.  













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From: DeVoid@cup.portal.com (David - Lyall)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Amer/Rus movies
Date: Sat,  3 Oct 92 01:50:05 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <66974@cup.portal.com> <1992Oct01.135454.28157@watson.ibm.com>

>Why, it is. Like "Ezhik v tumane" (Hedgehog in the Mist), "Skazka skazok"
>(Tale of tales ?) or "Obratnaya storona luny" (Backside of the Moon).
>
>But, fortunately for art, there is a little difference
>between art and state-of-the-art technology.
>Guess, in what department is Beauty and the Beast?

	I guess that Sov animations don't make it here. Never heard of
any of those movies at least. Would be interesting to see them. Kind of
surprised that you don't consider Disney stuff to have artistic merit.
I agree that the technology doesn't make it "art". Beauty had enuf film
sense along with the production values to make it a valuable film, in
my opinion.

==> J. David Lyall > DeVoid@cup.portal.com
From: leonid@spss.com (Leonid Feygin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Americans and movies: something's wrong
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:39:57 GMT
Organization: SPSS Inc.

I remember I watched the Soviet movie "Oblomov" (made circa 1981)
in Chicago, and the audience laughed at all inappropriate moments.
And it was no ordinary audience either: the showing was at the
Art Institute School Center ("aren't Americans idiots" was my first
reaction).
--
Leonid Feygin     SPSS, Inc.     leonid@spss.com     (312) 329-3639
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: vlad@erg.sri.com (vlad)
Subject: Re: Economic and Math education
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 21:40:01 GMT

In article <19t92iINN5ht@rodan.UU.NET> avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) writes:
>Just for cusriosity -- pick the today's Washington Post; they published
>some exerpts ("typical questions") from SAT (kinda mini-SAT). I was
>impressed. Now i know why America has those notorious troubles in education.
>
>Basically the article said that having the score about 700 may be considered
>the reason to apply for a honorary scholarship. But the questions...
>
>Well, the WORST Moscow institutes could have those as easiest problems
>for admission exams. Seriously! I solved the math tests in about four minutes
>(they gave 10) with no paper. 

Well, given the fact that there are about 100 questions per 30 minutes, I
guess you would have time to solve about 70 of those and get score of 600.
:-)

The point is that these problems are trivial but come at you at hte speed
of 3 per minute or so. While this may not be a test of mathematical
abilities, it sure tests your ability to be a blitz chess player or a
hockey goalie.

>No wonder, Japan's a threat.

Not in hockey and blitz chess. :-)

>--vadim

vlad
From: igor@cs.columbia.edu (Igor Pankevich)
Subject: Re: Dve Sud'bu (Krivaja da ...)
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 05:37:56 GMT

Greb do uma pomrachen'ya,
Pravil, brosiv plipicheniye 
Na stremninu im.
A nelegkaya s krivoyu,
ot dosady, s perepoiy
tam i sginuli...

Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: didinsky@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (didinsky garry)
Subject: Re: Russian Poetry
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 04:48:13 GMT

nikolay@husc8.harvard.edu (Philip Nikolayev) writes:

>In article <1JHHRB1w165w@halcyon.com>, mashina <novost@halcyon.com> writes:

>> I don't know who is the author of this poem, but I thought it
>> was kind of interesting.  

>> Pesnya Korobejnika

>> Ekh, polnym polna moya korobushka,
>> Est' i sitets i parcha
>> Pozlej dusha moya zaznobushka,
>> Molodets kogo plecha.

>> Vyjdu, vyjdu v pozh' vysokuyu,
>> Tam do nochki prosizhu,
>> Kak zavizhu svoyu chernookuyu
>> Vse tovary razlozhu.

>> Tseny sam platil ne malye
>> Ne torgujsya, ne skupis'
>> Podstavlyaj ka gubki alye,
>> Blizhe k molodtsu sadis'.

>> I have a question about this poem.  Is the connotation here, that
>> maybe the tovary she is laying down has a dual meaning?  Is my
>> question clear?  IE, Could the goods be something other than
>> silk and velvet?

>>          Jeff

>Nekrasov, 'Korobeiniki'. Quite right, the traditional
>stereotypic notion about those hucksters was that they
>were awfully promiscuous and prone to corrupting young
>innocent girls. Instances of group violence against the
>_korobeiniki_ were not infrequent in the 19th century,
>precisely for that reason.

>Philip Nikolayev at nikolay@husc.harvard.edu

Pomoemu, this poem is a part of Lermontov's "Pesnya pro kuptsa Kolashnikova".
But, I could be wrong.

-----Garik.
From: verbit@coolidge.harvard.edu (Mikhail S. Verbitsky)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Kommunisty poimali mal'chishku /Re: More poetic humor
Date: 28 Sep 92 21:04:19 GMT
Organization: Sozialistische Patienten Kollektiv

In article <Bv58Lp.5zw.2@cs.cmu.edu> sergei+@cs.cmu.edu (Sergei Nirenburg) writes:
>
>Kommunisty sxvatili parnishku,
>Zatashchili v svoe KGB.
>- Ty skazhi nam, kto dal tebe knizhku
>"Rukovodstvo k podpol'noj bor'be"?
>
>- Ty zachem sovershal prestuplenije,
>Kleveshcha na nash solnechnyj stroj?!
>...
>- Srat' xotel ja na vashego Lenina,
>Otvechaet im yunyj geroj.
>
>(unattributed, <= 1960s)


Some verses missing. This is actually a song
sung on the "Slavianka's Farewell" tune.


	Kommunisty poimali mal'chishku.

Kommunisty poimali mal'chishku,
Potashchili v svoyo KGB.
Govoryat, kto daval tebe knizhku,
Rukovodstvo k podpol'noi bor'be.

CHORUS (by A. Galich, from another song)
	Vpered,
	Za vzvodom vzvod,
	Truba boevaya zoviot,
	Prishiol iz stavki
	Prikaz k otpravke,
	I znachit nam pora v pohod.


Ty zachem sovershal prestuplenia,
Posyagal na nash Leninskii stroi.
V zhopu videl ya vashego Lenina, 
Otvechaet im yunyi geroi.

Vidno, ochered' v lager' nastala,
Vashih ya lagerei ne boyus'.
Skoro staya akul kapitala
Rasterzaet Sovetskuyu Rus'.

Molodaya podpol'shchitsa Klava
Tiho plachet vo mrake nochei.
Vspominayet, kak paren' kudryavyi
Bol'shevistskih kleimil palachei.

--------

One of the best examples of Russian poetry,
IMO.

Misha.
From: muh@physics20 (Yury M. Mukharsky)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Funding of the xSU's space program?
Date: 1 Oct 92 00:57:58 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics20.berkeley.edu

In article <9210010018.AA19571@feds66.Prime.COM> "soc.culture.soviet via ListServ" <SCS-L@indycms.iupui.edu> writes:
>
>In fact, SU consistently have been launching several times _more_ satellites
>than US (in some years probably up to 10 times more), about 90% of them were
>military photo intelligence devices. The quality of their photo equipment seems
>to fairly match American competing devices as well. Photo intelligence seems to
>be the (or one of) main target of Soviet space program.

As far as I know, SU have not tele-equiped devices, like Lansat, with resolution
in the 10-meter range. Neither those photo-satellites were well-controlled.
So they mostly shoot whatever was in view, and then drop the film and cease
their existance. So one tele-satellite is equivalent to many short-lived
photo-satellites. Main drawback is lower resolution, though.

Yury.

Disclaimer: I'm not space-scientist and may be wrong. Please, don't kill me.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: arto@leland.Stanford.EDU (Artavazd Khachikian)
Subject: Re: Amer/Rus movies
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 00:35:23 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.215011.2154@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> frants@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Leonid Frants) writes:
>In article <1992Sep29.211931.8246@leland.Stanford.EDU> arto@leland.Stanford.EDU (Artavazd Khachikian) writes:
>>In article <BvCppD.9pv@news.cso.uiuc.edu> didinsky@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (didinsky garry)
>>>
>>>As for good movies, depressive or not, America provide plenty of those.
>>>More than SU in any case, where most films suffer from bad acting and bad
>>>montage.

>comparing the best actors here and there, en masse they are much
>better here.
>

	I respectfully disagree. I also disagreer with the en masse
formula for evaluation of this kind.

>>	As for the montage, it is very important to distinguish between
>>the form and the content in art, between the tools and the objectives.
>>
>
>I think you mean editing by montage, right?
>
>>	You mentioned the main point yourself - in the Soviet Union movies
>>were closer to ART, in America - closer to ENTERTAINMENT and BUSINESS, this
>>just another aspect of the wholesale utilitarianism of the American society.
>
>	By the way, is "Roseanne" still number 1 American show? Any comments
>>necessary?
>
>I have a comment. What do you think is the most popular TV show in
>Russia now? Well, at least a few weeks back it was some mexican soap
>opera shown daily I believe. Was it something around  20% of the
>country that was glued to the TV tube? Some large number anyway.
>

	But of course! This is exactly the point! The MEXICAN soap
opera, because there is no Russian soap opera instead, because despite all
its efforts, Russian art, Russian cinema is still alien to this
"new western wave", still behind the wholesale "westernization"
of the society. Unfortunately, there is always time ...

	Anyway, we can argue about the names, particular films,
numbers etc., but one thing is obvious : In USSR cinema was ART, here
it is very often something between dinner and desert, IN USSR WE DID NOT BYE
POP-CORN IN THE MOVIES. Detail? Yes, but incredibly characteristic
detail. 

	How about the recent OSCARS? What do you think?
How about Beauty and the Beast? How about nominations for best effects?
How about Terminator 2?
From: sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Bulgakov
Date: 29 Sep 92 19:38:44 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania




Warning: The following article does not contain special signs for
         humor impared.

petrel@ac.dal.ca writes:


>> In: <88268@netnews.upenn.edu> sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin)
 writes:

>>   "top of my head".

>But what a head ....

 This looks like a personal attack.  

>>In article <AE2jmig406@sovet.cntc.dubna.su>, fed@sovet.cntc.dubna.su
 (E.D.Fedyunkin) writes:

>> Isn't that about all russian are
>> crazy?!

>Not only Russians must be crazy.

 You mean Ukrainians are crazy too?  As for Russian craziness, I already 
 have noted that Mr. Fedyunkin's example lacks a simple logic and was based 
 on the false assumptions.

>Guessing from the guest list of the Woland's party, Bulgakov was also:
 
 You conviniently deleted my unbeatable example of Bulgakov's antisemitism
 and followed mr. Fedyunkin's way of sucking conclusions from a finger. But
 let's see. 

>          --- anti-Italian (Italians were represented by Tofana, a woman
>who helped to poison 500 husbands of bored wives from Palermo and Napoli
>(a radical feminist?)

 Yes. Sure Bulgakov also was an anti-feminist in a good meaning of this
 word e.g. he admired women as women but not as a production force.
 As far as his anti-Italianism is concerned, I rather doubt it. In fact,
 people invited on Woland's party are not necessarily (you check spelling)
 bad. For instance, Tofana *helped* those wives. She did it not only for
 money, sure she had to overcome some traditions. 

>    ------ anti-French (Monsieur Jacques, a killer of the king's lover)

 Besides all that I've said, remember - "Koroleva v voshischenii!!". 
 

>    ------ anti-German (the name of the baby-kiler, Frieda, at least sounds
>           German), 

  This is the worst example you could imagine. Bulgakov loves Germans, and
  admits that people could make mistakes (like kill their own baby) but 
  the remorse will bring them forgivness. Either you just heard about
  "M&M" or have troubles in comprehending.
   
>Why to limit the power of Mr. Borodin's reasoning to  nations? 
>Bulgakov must have been vehemently anti-street-car-driver-ish ! Remember
>who (``succesfully'') killed Berlioz? 

  This one is just to demonstrate that I misprint the word. Yes, I admit
  I have done that.  Nevertheless, I still won't use a spell checker just
  because otherwise you would not have anything to write about. It's like
  to play a game with handicap at your advantage. 

>The impact of Mr. Borodin's Method has been felt on the other side
>of Atlantic as well. ``MacLean's'' had this story:

 That impact has been felt by some clueless people only. 

>Any relatives in Canada?

  No.

>I wish Mr Borodin  further equally amazing achievements in the analysis of
>the literature.

 As you wish. I promise I'll do further analysis not only for own fun
 but also because of my entirely humanistic nature and the willingness
 to give you a clue.  

>Piotr Trela

 S.B.
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