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From: igor@cs.columbia.edu (Igor Pankevich)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Lyrics for a song requested
Date: 13 Nov 92 18:50:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.Bxo4Co.GKL
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Originator: igor@krishna.cs.columbia.edu


In article <97389@netnews.upenn.edu>, burshtey@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Alexander Burshteyn) writes:
> Can someone please post the lyrics for Ivashchenko & Vasil'ev"s song
> "Na dache Evgeniya Ivanycha"?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Alex Burshteyn


Na kochkah - tsvetochki, za kochkami - les.
Na dal'nii gluhoi polustanochek, 
Naladiv pilu da rubanochek,
S utra my priehali stroit' naves 
Na dachu k Evgenii Ivanychu.

A dachi-to, dachi i net u nego,
Kupil on uchastok zabroshennyi,
Doplels'a s posil'noyu nosheyu,
I vot posredi barahla svoego
Stoit on v tel'nyashechke noshenoi.

Ah, Evgeniy Ivanych v polosochku,
Oi, da shkiperskaya boroda, -
Derzhit v levoy on detskuyu sosochku,
Derzhit v pravoy orud'ya truda.

Evgenii Ivanych - morskaya dusha,
I dochka ego, Marishanechka,
Dushoyu Morskoyu - v papanechku.
Opisyvat' vsem, kak ona horosha, 
Chasami on mozhet za chainichkom.

No nam ne do chaya, my rvemsya skorei
Dokonchit' naves peremychkami,
A to ved' beda s elektrichkami, 
A spat', kak hozyain, bez sten i dverei,
Na goloy zemle - bez privychki my.

Zalezaet on v spal'nichek sparennyy,
Kazhdyy vecher sebe govorya:
"Nichego, pereterpim, ne bare, mol,
Budem gretsya poka iz nutrya".

Korezhit i gnet yego radikulit
Prohladnoyu mayskoyu nochen'koy,
No stroit, i stroit on prochnen'ko...
A dachi vse net, a motor barahlit...
Plevat'! Ne sebe zhe, a dochen'ke!

Ya znayu, dacha budet, ya znayu, sadu tsvest'.
Sposobny nashi lyudi ne spat', ne pit', ne yest',
Taskat' kirpich pod myshkoy, vek putat'sya v dolgah,
Chtob svit' gnezdo detishkam u cherta na rogah.

Dolbaya po pal'tsam, toropimsya my
Hozyaistvo Evgeniy Ivanychevo
Navesom ukryt', ibo - malo li chego...
Chtob bol'she Evgeniy Ivanychu ne
Oborachivat' plenkoyu na noch' ego.




--Igor P.
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From: muh@physics.Berkeley.EDU (Yury M. Mukharsky)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Reply to S. Borodin (was: Antisemitism and Verbitsky)
Date: 5 Nov 1992 09:58:02 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.berkeley.edu

In article <Bx82sK.4sq@cs.columbia.edu> igor@cs.columbia.edu (Igor Pankevich) writes:
>
>Ahhh, p'yatides'yatisemity!

Cool!

Yury

Disclaimer: I did not mean that.
From: sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: State Antisemitism in Russia (was re: reply to S. Borodin)
Date: 6 Nov 92 03:06:42 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Nov6.020649.9752@cis.ohio-state.edu> khaikin@neptune.cis.ohio-state.edu (dmitry khaikin) writes:
>
>> The problem is that you don't want to accept a simple thing, that is
>> that soviets did not distinguish nationalities. 

>Soviets did not distinguish nationalities? What do you call an item in
>every Soviet passport that says "nationality".

 I meant that they (soviets) did not distinguish nationalities when 
 they put people against the wall and pulled a trigger.

>>Jews were just one of
>> more or less groupped people. The idea of free emigration for Jews
>> made them potentially dangerous to the system.

>Correct me if I am wrong but I think this is antisemitic.

  Well, I rather consider the idea of free emigration for *Jews*
  to be a racist one. However I didn't get what you consider
  antisemitic in this case? The resistance to let you go?
  What about others? I mean (not to worry about others, of course)
  will you call the same thing russophobic, germanphobic,
  What_ever_phobic? Just because it was done to all others.

  BTW, were soviets antisemites - they would let Jews go. Just
  to "clean" the country. (notice double quotes, please)

>>But it is not antisemitism
>> it is just that the system preserved itself  from what it felt
>>dangerous.

>Oh, great! Now I will feel much better next time soviet government
>supports antisemitism. Now I know that they have a very good reason for
>doing so and the reason is not antisemitic at all.

 I'm glad to hear that. My main reason was to make you feel better.

>> Happen it to be any other nation - we would see the same. 

>But it did not happen to be any other nation (at least in most cases).
>Oh, and I am not saying that Soviet government supports only
>antisemitism, it supports a lot of discrimination not only agaist Jews.

 That is good. At least you realise that Jews weren't the only nation
 opressed in the SU. As for it didn't happened to any other nation -
 how about Germans? Who cried on the West? At least they do have 
 their homeland Germany and also could say that they want to live 
 there. 

>>It is still
>> not actions against nationalities, but rather against groups of
>>people.

>Yeah, right! It is agaist groups of people that just happened to be
>nationalities. Wow, what a coincidence!

 When 15 Jews demand free emigration for all Jews, they spread the guilt
 to others. These 15 make all others guilty in sins others never comitted
 and these 15 make all others potentially dangerous. The nationality
 is still secondary. 

>Thanks,
>Dima

S.B.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: ftsam@acad3.alaska.edu (Sergei Maurits)
Subject: Re: Andrei Rublov (film)
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 02:18:38 GMT


In article <1992Nov7.174915.9575@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>,
 buchanan@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (BUCHANAN TIMOTHY E) writes:

> We saw the Tartovsky film 'Andrei Rublov' last night at CU. Some earlier
> postings criticized the translations, but perhaps these have been changed.
> Anyway, Natalia said they were pretty good as these things go.
> 
> It's a very rewarding movie; I especially enjoyed the final sequence, the
> casting of a bell. I did not understand the first scene in the film, in
> which a balloon is launched. Could someone shed some light on this? 
> Timothy. 

I heard (or red, but don't ask me for exact source) that in the first film 
versions the scene had continuation which have been cut lately by censorship.
(According to one version it was cut by censorship, acordind to other by the
author himself.) The "flyer" survived the balloon crash but was stabbed to 
death by local peasants who follow the launch. At least a short frame with
running people remains in the final cut and their appearence (and traceless 
dissapearence), together with some hastiness of the flyer as if he is chased,
are pretty much coherent with the story. 

This is even not the first scene but rather prologue of the film and its
contents to some extent determines the condensed author view. I really don't
know who cut the scene and whether it was cut at all. The theme of hostility 
of a mob to innovation is not the main one in the film though it is defenetely
present. It is rather hymn to creativity of human being. In that sence the
bell casting sequence is the main and the best part of the film, I perfectly
agree with Timothy.

Serega, AK
From: simon1@bass.bu.edu (Simon Streltsov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Reply to S. Borodin (was: Antisemitism and Verbitsky)
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:49:11 GMT
Reply-To: simon1@bass.bu.edu (Simon Streltsov)
Followup-To: soc.culture.soviet
Organization: Boston University

In article <1992Nov1.234102.1@acad3.alaska.edu> ftsam@acad3.alaska.edu (Sergei Maurits) writes:
>In article <1992Nov2.032832.27761@u.washington.edu>, nobby@milton.u.washington.
>edu (Vitaly Shmatikov) writes:
>
>> In those years (1976-1990) Moscow State University found itself in such a
>                 ^^^^^^^^^^^
>> disgrace and infamy that I doubt it will ever recover from it.
>   
>   Question of special interest for me is untill what year this 
>   practice (should I write "shame practice"?) was implemented? 

I don't know until when (is it completely over now? - as in joke:
"vi evreev na raboty berete? -da,berem - a gde vi ix berete?"

I think it began around 1968-72, after 6 day war, and beginning
of public movement for emigration, marked by demonstration
near Verxovnii Sovet by s group of intellectuals (68?), and
also expulsion of number of Jewish professors from Moscow
University (71-72?) and Brezhnev-Ford agreement in 72, which
allowed grain in Russia, and Jews out.

If I mixed up something, please, correct me.

Simon Streltsov,
Boston University
simon1@bass.bu.edu
From: rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (Jeff Bytof)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Date: 10 Nov 92 03:51:58 GMT
Organization: ucsd
NNTP-Posting-Host: lutherlab.ucsd.edu

I wish to thank those who responded to my request for information on
the Jewish A.O.  

What struck me was the parallel with what we did to the American
Indians by placing them on reservations.  The only thing that
separates Hitler and Stalin from those who expanded the American
frontier is timing.

------------------------
rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: nobby@milton.u.washington.edu (Vitaly Shmatikov)
Subject: Re: Reply to S. Borodin (was: Antisemitism and Verbitsky)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 00:01:38 GMT

>> Now, a disclaimer:
>>   this post was solely intended for decent people on this network, and is not
>>   in any way intended to dissuade Antonov and his ilk from joining Pamyat.
>
>Esli pod "dostoi'nymi" ponimat' lyudei kotorye prikidyvayutsya
>"politicheskimi bezhentsami" uehavshi za belymi bulkami, to my
>imeem sovershenno raznye ponyatia o tom chto takoe "dostoi'nyi".
>Dostoinyh lyudei vysylali. A vy -- tak, govno.
>

Why is the issue of emigration so burning for you? You professed to be
a Russian patriot and I appreciate that. But why do you care about
emigration from Russia? I imply no sarcasm and no insult. I'm really
puzzled. For example, I enjoy America and want to live here. I couldn't
care less why people are leaving U.S. for the other countries or
why I can't do that. I would've started fretting over these questions
if I wanted to get the hell outta here. But it's truly strange for
a patriot to be so concerned with the ostensible violations of his
fundamental right to emigrate if he's never going to exercise this
right. Or you're just fighting for the sake of universal justice?


>
>--vadim

Bewildered,
nobby@u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: ioffe@chen.bgu.ac.il (Alex Ioffe)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:21:24 GMT
Organization: Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel

gmfich@cs.washington.edu (Greg Fichtenholtz) writes:
: Gospoda!!!!!!!!!!!!
:
: Goss Pegot lost!!!!!!!!!!!!
:
:
: Gevolutsia otmenyaetsya.... Navsegda... :-( :-(
:
:
: --
: =============================++===================================
: Gregory Fichtenholtz         ||          |~~~ |~\ |  | | | |   /|
: gmfich@cs.washington.edu     ||          |    |_/ | /| | | |  /_|
:                              ||          |    |   |/ | |_|_| /  |

Gospodin Ggeg v kogne ne pgav!!!!
gevolutsia uhodit v podpol'e do 1996 goda!!
Uga Gospoda.
Da zdgastvyet Aleksandg William Kerenski-Clinton.
From: simon1@bass.bu.edu (Simon Streltsov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Antisemitism and Verbitsky (responce to Sergey Borodin)
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:36:55 GMT
Reply-To: simon1@bass.bu.edu (Simon Streltsov)
Followup-To: soc.culture.soviet
Organization: Boston University

In article <1992Nov1.210801.17006@husc3.harvard.edu> verbit@coolidge.harvard.edu (Mikhail S. Verbitsky) writes:
>In article <1cq6m3INNg41@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> dima@maths.uwa.oz.au (Dima Pasechnik) writes:
>
>
>>Dlya lic, ne postupivshih na mehnat MGU etc., byl orgainzovan v 1980 g.
>>spec. kurs lekcij i semunarov provodimyh takimi izvetnymi matematikami
>>kak D.Fuks, Zelevinsky i dr. (zabyl kto eshe, skleroz), t.n. 'malyj
>>mehmat' (byl razognan, kagetsya, v 1982 g.)  
>
>Among teachers there were also Boris Feigin, Sasha Shen (known
>to a frequent reader of this newsgroup) and Vl. Senderov.

I would add Boris Kanevsky - main organizer and
say, that Senderov was not much into teaching.


>When the legal process against Senderov (resulting in a
>a jail term, by the way) started, "malyi mekh-mat" ended,
>and its participants have had all sorts of unpleasant things
>from KGB. 
The prime reason SEEMED to be, that Kanevsky got a term
together with Senderov. 

The reason for the trial were "listovki" for free trade unions.

Why do I write about it now? -
Maybe someone knows where Kanevsky lives now and how he is doing?

Senya

Simon Streltsov			    	! Disclaimer :
PhD Student,				! I can not speak for the
Dept. of Manufacturing Engineering	! Engineering Dept, ONLY because
Boston University			! I claim to be a mathematician..
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: didinsky@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (didinsky garry)
Subject: Re: Reply to S. Borodin (was: Antisemitism and Verbitsky)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:25:14 GMT

viznyuk@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:

>  Second, we need to express out sincere hopes that neither
>of our Jewish friends would suffer significant physical
>damage, does the next anti-Jewish pogrom happen not in NYC,
>as usual, but at their place[s]. Otherwise their complains
>would not be understood: this is not antisemitic country...

>Serega & Co
 
 Chuvak, stop smoking cold turkeys. What happened in NYC was not pogrom,
 as in government supported massacre of a minority group, but a clash
 between two minority groups, which took a very ugly form. Learn more
 about america before you blab your mouth in an excessive manner.

 ---Garik.
From: simon1@bass.bu.edu (Simon Streltsov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Hookers taking vouchers?
Date: 9 Nov 92 21:33:39 GMT
Reply-To: simon1@bass.bu.edu (Simon Streltsov)
Followup-To: soc.culture.soviet
Organization: Boston University

>(Patricia Schwartz) writes:
>>> Rumor currently all over Moscow:
>>> Prostitutes have begun to accept privatization vouchers in payment
>>> for their sexual services. 

>Market price of vaucher (privatizatsionnyj check) climbed from 3000 rubl.
>(beginning of Oct.) to 7000-8000 (b. of Nov.), that is comparable to high 
>monthly salary

Giving current ruble and hooker rates, hookers should be charging 
about 2 vouchers : one to begin, one to finish.

Because most people have only 1 voucher, they are 
organizing groups and "doing" privatization collectively.

Senya
From: viznyuk@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Mark Twain was an emigrant from Russia
Date: 9 Nov 92 20:21:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: ohstpy.14618.2afe81f7

In article <1992Nov9.115821.1@jaguar.uofs.edu>, mam18@jaguar.uofs.edu writes:
> In article <14520.2af4204f@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>, viznyuk@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
>>   the Russian word "finiki" is also from "Finn", for sure..
>> yep..forgot - the word "jarmo" is also Russian...
>> the peasants used to torture their horses by that
>> terrible thing.. (where were those vocal animals' rights activists then ?)
> 
> Mr.Viznyuk says a new word in Russian linguistics!!!  I always thought that
> word "finiki" came from word "finikiitsy".  And BTW, "jarmo" doesn't look like
> 100% Russian too...  Most likely it came with Variangian tribes, which
> overpowered Slavic tribes in IX century and created their dinasty (Rurikans) as
> well as their state (Kievan Rus').
> 
> Now, I don't pretend that I know a lot about early Russian history or about
> Russian philology, but I believe that all the meditations of Mr.Vizniuk is
> nothing more than bullshit in the best Russian traditions ("a by pogovorit'").

 Oops, sorry, I forgot to mention explicitely that it was not
for humor impaired. Take a rest, cretin Michael.

Serega & Co

> 
>> Huh ! of course "ryyti" is also of Russian origin - 
>> I bet it comes from "ryt'", eh ?  So "jarmo ryyti" is
>> surely a Russian agent in Fini[ki/sh] ranks.
>> How have I exposed him !
>>
> 
> "Skhodi na bazar, kupi seledku i moroch' ei golovu..."
>   
> Respectfully,
> 
> Michael.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,rec.arts.books
From: mkagalen@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (michael kagalenko)
Subject: Re: Venedikt Erofejev: Moskva - Petushki
Keywords: Moskva, Petushki
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 00:37:53 GMT


  "Phylology" is the synonym to "impotence"
From: @ee.surrey.ac.uk (null)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: reply to S. Borodin
Date: 5 Nov 92 19:31:38 GMT
Organization: University of Surrey, Guildford, England

In article <96135@netnews.upenn.edu>, sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin) writes:

|>   What is fair? Is it fair that guys studied 10 years
|>  in best Moscow schools and were *trained* to solve entrance
|>  exams tests and they competed with some guys from Holmogory
|>  who were taught Russian and Math by the same teacher?

Urm, brr, this stinks real bad. Does Mr Borodin think that more gifted children should not be
admitted first? Perhaps racially-advantaged unadulteratedly-Slavic children should be given
preference for the sake of "fairness"! 

The favorite argument of the Neo-nazi organisation Pamyat Mr Borodin may feel solidarity with
is something like this:
"Look how many yids are there in science and how many Russians. Calculate the proportions -- they
are far from being equal!! This is Zionists' conspiracy! There should be an equal proportion of us
and them in universities."

I say: compare the proportion of Chukchas that look after deer with the respective figure
for the Russians. A Russian conspiracy against poor Chukchas is only too conspicuous! The
Russians don't want to look after deer, they get poor Chukchas to do the dirty job for them!
There should be as many Russians in the tundra as there are Chukchas there.

Mr. Borodin!
Do you in your moronic understanding of equality allow for the traditional occupation of a nation?
That any Jewish child is indoctrinated from birth that (s)he should be very well educated in the
first place. That many European nations don't assume the same importance of education that the
'soviet' Jews did, while being equally respectable but -- just different. That, finally,  
oppression stimulates a minority to work twice as hard to keep afloat, and quite naturally such 
an effort might give rise to an unproportional success rate?

|> 
|>   *Some* people in admission commettees might feel that it's not
|>  fair. Especially considering (by them) that those 'bright' guys
|>  might emmigrate after graduation and a guy from Holmogory does
|>  not even have a chance for that.
|> 

This is preposterous! What do these absurd apostrophes around the word bright mean?
Of course they were bright, no matter if this was the result of training or just a natural ability.
And surely Mr Borodin himself feels the way those nazi scoundrels did as they failed the "racially 
handicapped" at the entry exams. That is he feels being fair.

I wonder why decent people should shake his hand?

|>  S.B.

--
A.S.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: petrov@tfs.com (George Petrov)
Subject: Re: Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Organization: TRW Financial Systems
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 22:11:31 GMT

In article <rabjab.244.721280081@golem.ucsd.edu> rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (Jeff Bytof) writes:
>
>>  Birobidzhan is the only place on Earth, where one
>>could find _real_ Jews. A little bit frosen, but otherwise
>>well-preserved ones.
>>:-)
>
>Birobidzhan is the capital of the Jewish A.O.  Why are the Jews
>there?  Were they banished there by Stalin, or is there another

	Stalin, yes.

>reason?  And so close to a disputed boundry with China (the Amur river)!
>Certainly Jews are not there of their own free will or was it
>a choice they couldn't refuse?
>
>-------------------------------
>Jeff Bytof
>rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu
From: ftsam@acad3.alaska.edu (Sergei Maurits)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Andrei Rublov, Zeppelins and , hmm, Verbitsky
Date: 11 Nov 92 00:57:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: acad3.1992Nov10.165709.1
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

In article <1992Nov10.175612.26800@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, pv02@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu
 (PETER VOROBIEFF) writes:

> 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)

> PV:
> Hmm... The most prominent authorities in folklore study have
> agreed that the thing that monk invented was not a Zeppelin,
> but a Volksvagen.
> 
      
      Good done! Tanx, you made my day.


>>	Misha.
> 
> A kto zh estcho...
> 
   Da, srezal ...  Tut i slovar' bol'she ne pomozhet, ne obizhaisya, Misha.

   Serega, AK
From: didinsky@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (didinsky garry)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Stop! Let's start all over...
Date: 7 Nov 92 20:31:50 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

I think I lost track of where the discussion on anti-semitism is going.
It started somewhere with a statement by Vadim A. about "rats" (not especially
jewish mice as in "American Tale") leaving the ship. Then "brothers" took
that statement as an anti-semitic remark. Then, there was whole bunch of 
stuff on how jews used "anti-semitism" argument to get money out of US,
and how there was no state-supported anti-semitism in Russia.  Actually,
Israel made it worth for Jews, by trying to help them.  But, then Russian
governement said that if Israel is helping all Jews, it means that they are
disloyal to Russia, and hence, cannot get into MGU.

I am I close?  Now, it seems to me that from all this discussion, we came to
conclussion that Jews had very good reason for asking help from US.

If this is not correct, let us start all over. Are Jews "rat" leaving the ship,
or are they a group of people who can justify asking an asylum in the US?

---Garik.
From: sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Reply to S. Borodin (was: Antisemitism and Verbitsky)
Date: 5 Nov 92 23:47:55 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <Bx9L81.DIL@apollo.hp.com> goykhman_a@apollo.hp.com (Alex Goykhman) writes:

>    The Russian Empire used to be an extremely racist state,
>    a "prison of nations" as Lenin once put it.

     "I love Passionata - I can listen it over and over"

     "Electron tak zhe neischerpaem, kak i atom"
     
                               V.I. Lenin

     I could recall more perls, if you'd like. 

>     On top of it,
>    there were some restrictions that applied only to the Russian 
>    Jews (the Pale, etc.). Mind you that at the time the country 
>    was primerily owned and run by the Russians.

>    By 1917, the country had been mismanaged so badly that the
>    population revolted and, as a result, the ruling elite was 
>    thrown out of power.  After the Civil War, and until WWII
>    began, the country was ruled by ethnic minorities - the Jews,
>    Georgians, Latvians, etc - and it was during that period of
>    time that the state became considerably less chauvinistic, 
>    and anti-semitism was all but gone.

     It would be probably a right guess to say that there were
     only 30 millions of antisemits in Russia, wouldn't it?
     This is about the number of people who ended up in labor camps,
     which were invented by Leon Trotsky.

>    The Russians returned to power after WWII, and brought with 
>    them the traditional great-russian chauvinism, extreme racial
>    and ethnic intolerance and, yes, anti-semitism.
     

     That's because in 1953 the rest of antisemites started to
     come back from labor camps, which were invented by Leon Trotsky.   

>    By 1991, the country had been mismanaged so badly that the
>    population revolted...
>
     Shall we build new labor camps, which were invented by Leon Trotsky?
     Another 30 millions? Brr...

  S.B.