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From: mam18@jaguar.uofs.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Final Point!!??
Date: 11 Jan 93 22:11:29 GMT
Organization: University of Scranton

Dear Ladies and gentlemen:

I'm very pleased with your interest in my personality, which, according to 
some postings has riched the magnificent horisons of "Starshina Vnutrennikh
Voisk Sovetskoi Armii" and jewish dissident, who couldn't reach his historical
motherland.  Unbelievable!

The fallacy #1:  I'm not "Starshina", "Ml.Serzhant", "Praporshchik" or anything
else of the kind.  I never served in the heroic Soviet Military Forces.  I have
no connection to "Short History of CPSU"'s readings during the political 
agitation of great Russian soldiers.

Com'n people!  All I am is a private of Pennsylvania Army National Gurads,
which I translated to Russian as "Pennsil'vanskie Vnutrennie Voiska" (not the
1 to 1 translation, but the closest one I could think of).  Nobody brainwashed
me ever in that institution, and nobody asked me to "April Theses of President
Bush".  All I have to do is to be a GOOD soldier, know how to defence myself,
how to destroy enemies, using all kinds of equipment, and how to help my buddy
in the fields.  Please, consider this description in the future and don't
call me "Starshina" or "Ment".

The fallacy #2:  Yes, I'm a Jew, but I never tryed to escape for my Historical
Motherland.  All I wanted was to escape FROM X-USSR, so I could express myself
more freely and openly.  I may sympathise my "blood-brothers", who does that
economical and political miracle in Israel, but I still beleive that their
bureaucracy is even worth than that in X-USSR and that Israel isn't a perfect
place to live (I would even said that it's far from perfect).  So, relax, my
dear critics.  You have nothing to worry about.  I'm not trying to make a hero
out of myself or a martyr, I'm just a regular person, who hated to live in that
mother-f***en country, called Soviet Union.  And I do beleive, that it was my
basic right to run out of there.  And if their autorities didn't allow me to
do that, I was a "refusenik" -- someone who is refused to lieve.

If my point of view isn't clear or questionable, I'll be glad to receive
an intelligent answer, rather than "mirror of Russian-speaking intelligence",
or "Warrant Officer".

Respectfully to everybody,

Michael Martynov.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: pmaggs@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Peter B. Maggs)
Subject: Re: Sun & Russia
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:24:50 GMT

>There are Spark IPC machines in Space Research Institute
>in Moscow. Even this sh*t they've got with great effort.

>Serega
Tatung makes Sparc clones in Taiwan.  Taiwan is not a member
of COCOM.  So there is no big problem getting them from there.
The problem is that the French, Germans, and Japanese don't
make good computers, so they keep the COCOM limit low to prevent
US competition.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,talk.politics.soviet,soc.culture.europe
From: adp@rdrel.relcom.msk.su (Pataraia Alexander)
Subject: Re: Soviet military training
Organization: Relcom R&D
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:57:33 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

solodov@monterey1.cs.wisc.edu (Mikhail V. Solodov) writes:
> >In article <1992Dec28.131125.3554@polaris.utu.fi>, Olli-Jukka Paloneva <opaloneva@abo.fi> writes:
> >> 
> >> Those who did not succeed in getting in universi-
> >> ties or did not succeed in bying ie bribing medical
> >> certicate had to go to army.
> >>...................... 
> >> Only reliable troops of the Soviet army were professionals
> >> and special troops like parachutists and frontier troops
> >> controlled by KGB. I would say that it was and probably
> >> is the only organisation that worked very well within the
> >> system.
> >> 
> >> Many youngsters of big cities could avoid military service
> >> through bribery and connections needed to get into univer-
> >> sities.
> >> 
> >> I'll bet our Sovok heroes are one of them unless anything else
> >> is proved.
> >> 
> >> Olli
> 
>    You seem to be relatively  knowledgable for a foreigner, but
> as most of them you don't seem to fully understand what you are
> talking about. For your info, in 1984-1988 all the students were
> subject to the draft - even the Moscow State University students !
>    There were always some people around who could avoid the draft,
> but they were by far the minority.
>    Your assertion that only the professional units were any good,
> has some grounds, but is again an exaggeration.
>    As compared to you, I've been there (for 2 years rather than weeks)
> and know way much better what I am talking about.
> Michael.
   But students of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
(FIZTECH) were  not subject to the draft(except 1986). And
most of 'sovoks' mentioned above are FIZTECH graduates.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: serg@appmath.uchicago.edu (Sergey Reznikov)
Subject: Re: translation problem
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:45:30 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.132839.3633@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> seltzer@ics.enet.dec.com (Richard Seltzer) writes:

>I will simply transliterate "Mesraim" (it seems futile to try to 
>decipher what ruler of ancient Egypt that term refers to).

"Mitzraim" is Hebrew for Egypt.

>I still haven't been able to figure out "zhigo."  It appears only 
>once, in the following sentence: "my vstretili Novyy god za 
>otlichnym uzhinom, sostoyavshim iz supa, svarennogo iz ubitoy 
>kozy, koz'ygo zhigo i khoroshego kofe."  It seems to be some 
>edible part of a goat.  Can anyone tell me more?

Probably, a typo.  Should be "zhira", i.e., fat.


Sergey Reznikov
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: igor@cs.columbia.edu (Igor Pankevich)
Subject: Re: soc.culture.soviet, discussions, etc.
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:17:12 GMT

In article <C0o1nH.EEp@max.physics.sunysb.edu>, LANDSBERG@sbhep2.phy.sunysb.edu (Greg Landsberg) writes:
> In <1993Jan10.061725.1770@math.ucla.edu> aps@sonia.math.ucla.edu writes:
> 
> > Vspominaetsya kommentarij Bitova k ego zhe romanu ``Pushkinskij dom'',
> > a imenno k fraze ``...rugal poslednimi slovami Sof'yu Vlas'evnu...'':
> > 	``V pis'me k drugu na vopros, kak on zhivet,
> > 	  Pushkin otvechal, chto de zhivet-to on nichego, da vot
> > 	  tol'ko Zhozefina Pavlovna myerznet. V kommentarii k hetomu
> > 	  pis'mu skazano: ``Zh.P. - neizvestnaja znakomaja Pushkina''
> > [all quotations are given from memory, sorry for possible mistakes]
> 
> Even though you  admitted that the  quotations might be  wrong, this one is
> TOO wrong. In his  ``Kommentarij k  obstcheizvestnomy''  Andrej Bitov cited
> the letter  written not  by Pushkin  but by Anton  Chehov.  The text of the
> citation is, however, close to the original.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Greg

Reminds me of a joke:
--Is it true that Rubinovich won a "Volga" in last lottery drawing?
--Not Rubinovich, but Ivanov. Not "Volga", but 5 rubles. Not in a lottery,
but in poker, and not won, but lost.

--Igor P.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: tweaver@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Tim Weaver)
Subject: Cyrillic Word Processing Program
Organization: Kalamazoo College
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:06:55 GMT

I'm looking for a Cyrillic Word Processor for an IBM Clone 8088 with 1 meg
RAM that will print on a dot matrix printer.  I know Windows has this 
capability, but obviously we can't run windows on this thing.  
Any suggestions?
-- 

|Timothy E. Weaver           | Kalamazoo College  |  (616) 337-7323        |
|Database Programmer/Analyst | 1200 Academy       | These are MY opinions! |
|email:  tweaver@kzoo.edu    | Kalamazoo MI 49006 | Mine!!  Mine!!  Mine!! |
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From: mmh@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Matthew Huntbach)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,soc.culture.europe,talk.politics.soviet
Subject: Re: Bilingualism - a good cause!
Date: 7 Jan 93 11:31:00 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.

In article <1993Jan7.083616.15949@jyu.fi> ryyti@jyu.fi (Jarmo Ryyti) writes:
>Matthew Huntbach (mmh@dcs.qmw.ac.uk) wrote:
>So you compare the asians of London with the russians of Estonia?

Well, if I were to advocate treating Asians in the UK in the
same way that Russians in Estonia are being treated, I would be
accused of being a racist and fascist.

>Bilingualism-a good cause. When the englihspeople have started to practise
>real bilingualism on their isles?

As I said, in those parts of London where there are substantial
numbers of people of Asian origin, all council documentation is
put out in several different Asian languages.
>
>What is the situation of welsch and gaelic? After some hundred years of
>english colonialism gaelic nearly disappeared from Ireland. English
>liberalism?

No, I am not defending the past. Again, this is typical
illiberal thinking - "you don't have an argument because of
what people of your nationality did in the past". To accuse me
of the crimes of past generations of Englishmen makes about as
much sense of accusing me of the crimes of anyone else whose
surname happens to share my initial letter of "H". Liberalism
means you regard people as individuals, not as members of some
arbitary group.

In fact, Wales is now fully bilingual, there are schools where
the teaching is entirely in Welsh for those that want it, Welsh
may be used for all legal purposes in Wales, all government
documentation is available in Welsh.
>
>There are only 1 million estonians, they are afraid of Irish example,
>A type of cultural imperialism what englishepeople have practised
>on their isles since centuries and elsewhere makes that it is better
>that you keep your mouth shut.
>
Oh, I see, I must keep my mouth shut because of what a few
toffs did centuries ago. Well, whatever next "your grandfather
robbed a bank, but as he's dead we'll imprison you instead"?
The fact is that we must start from the here and now. There is
no such things as inherited guilt. What was done in the past
was done - if the people who did it are still alive, by all
means punish them for it, but do not punish their children, or
derive them of their rights for it, including the right to live in
the land where they were born, or the right to speak and use their
mother tongue.

How many wars and conflicts occur, because people cannot grasp
this basic principle? Yes, it is a good thing to be proud of
your own culture, but not at the expense of someone else's. You
might as well say that you will show how much you love your
mother by beating someone else's mother. When men take this
sort of attitude they are worse than beasts.

Matthew Huntbach
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: cookliwj@cnsvax.uwec.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Yeltsin's advisors
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:43:35 -0600
Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire

Does any one know the full name of Yeltsin's economic advisor (s). Post on net
of e-mail me.

Thx,

Bill
From: burshtey@polka.seas.upenn.edu (Alexander Burshteyn)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Ot"ezdnaya
Date: 12 Jan 93 22:30:15 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


	Ot"ezdnaya bratu
	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
		(by Arkady Kolodezh)

Akh,
Kak rady vse my:
Ot schast'ya serdtse iz grudi naruzhu rvetsya.
Raz --
I net dilemmy,
I nas vse men'she, zdes' vse men'she ostaetsya.
Ekh,
Zashlyu anketu,
I sosluzhivtsev eto vryad li udivit.
Gla-
vnoe pri etom,
Chtob mog k ankete prilozhit' affidevit,
					Oy veyz mir...

Pripev:	Bozhe, chto zh eto takoe?
^^^^^^	Dokument.
	Pro rodstvo moe pryamoe
	Dokument,
	Shcho my zhyly z bratom razom
	V SeReSeR,
	A teper ya mayu brazer --
	Khi iz ser.

Okh,
Strana rodnaya,
Mne budet ochen' tyazhelo s toboy proshchat'sya.
Shlekht,
No ya ne znayu,
Chtob provozhat' nas, kto zakhochet ostavat'sya.
Ved'
Vasil' Ivanych,
Nash zamglavbukha, sdelav ochen' zhalkiy vid,
Slo-
vno noyut rany,
Sprosil: "Arkasha, gde mne vzyat' affidevit?",
						Oy veyz mir...

Pripev:	Bozhe, chto zh eto takoe?
^^^^^^	Dokument.
	Pro rodstvo moe pryamoe
	Dokument,
	Shcho my zhyly z bratom razom
	V SeReSeR,
	A teper ya mayu brazer --
	Khi iz ser.

Ukh,
Moroz po kozhe,
Avos' v komp'yuter popadet moe semeystvo,
I
Dokazhet tozhe,
Chto my -- gonimoe sovetskoe evreystvo,
A
Poka, konechno,
Nam poluvizy vydast radostno OViR.
Chtob
Dozhdat'sya vstrechi,
Pust' pobezhdaet perestroika, miru -- mir!
					   Oy, veyz mir...

Pripev:	Bozhe, chto zh eto takoe?
^^^^^^	Dokument.
	Pro rodstvo moe pryamoe
	Dokument,
	Shcho my zhyly z bratom razom
	V SeReSeR,
	A teper ya mayu brazer,
	Khi iz ser!

_________________
November 1, 1990.			
_____________________________________________________________

Of course, this is best when sung, not read, but even in this
form, I think, it's quite nice.
_____________________________________________________________
********************************
Posted with author's permission.
********************************
From: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Soc.Culture.Soviet
Date: 12 Jan 93 02:05:03 GMT
Organization: The Phallogocentric Cabal

In article <C0pJoJ.4yx@cs.columbia.edu> 
igor@cs.columbia.edu (Igor Pankevich) writes:

>>In article <1993Jan8.214538.19129@husc3.harvard.edu>
>>zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:

>>>B.C.E.  To cite an Armenian friend of mine, at the time our ancestors
>>>built their temples, the ancestors of the Slavs were sitting in the
>>>trees, and spitting at each other.  Of course, he said it in Russian.

>      A very good point!

Which one?

>--Igor P.

cordially,
mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
"Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."
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From: mihai@sep.Stanford.EDU (Alexander Mihai Popovici)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,soc.culture.europe,talk.politics.soviet
Subject: Re: Discrimination and fascism in Estonia
Date: 10 Jan 1993 00:33:57 GMT
Organization: Stanford Exploration Project
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: oas.stanford.edu

In article <1993Jan9.225123.26882@enea.se>, sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
|> 
|> Where, where have I said this?
|> 
|> Just for the record, I don't subscribe to the opinion which the
|> great liar Sergei Viznyuk tries to put in my mouth. And anyone
|> who have read postings where I have criticized Estonian legislation
|> knows this. Even Viznuyk, unless he is a complete illiterate idiot.

Unfortunately, without doubt, he is!


Cheers
Mihai
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,soc.culture.europe,talk.politics.soviet
From: viznyuk@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Soc.Culture.Soviet
Date: 9 Jan 93 13:27:43 EST
Organization: Midwest Rat's Hole

In article <1993Jan8.214538.19129@husc3.harvard.edu>, zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
> 
> YM:
>>I doubt anybody knows the answer, and I'm not sure the feature you pointed
>>out has much to do with it. On my side I would point to the fact that
>>first university in Europe is dated 11-th or 12-th century, and in Russia
>>(or better Ukrain) to 16-th or so 17-th. 
> 
> The first university in Europe was started by Plato in the Vth century
> B.C.E.  To cite an Armenian friend of mine, at the time our ancestors
> built their temples, the ancestors of the Slavs were sitting in the
> trees, and spitting at each other.  Of course, he said it in Russian.

  Well said. But.. at the time your ancestors built their
temples there were already Chinese and Indian temples, to
say nothing about Egyptians, Greeks, or Romans. And the
ancestors of Slavs were sitting on the trees next
to the ancestors of Frenchmen and Germans. So your Armenian
friend could use French instead.

Serega
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: libkind@hdlite.enet.dec.com (Sam Libkind)
Subject: Re: some Soviet emigre restaurant jokes
Reply-To: libkind@hdlite.enet.dec.com (Sam Libkind)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:18:12 GMT








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From: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Soc.Culture.Soviet
Date: 10 Jan 93 22:13:44 GMT
Organization: The Phallogocentric Cabal

In article <15396.2b4ed2cf@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
viznyuk@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:

>In article <1993Jan8.214538.19129@husc3.harvard.edu>,
>zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:

YM:
>>>I doubt anybody knows the answer, and I'm not sure the feature you pointed
>>>out has much to do with it. On my side I would point to the fact that
>>>first university in Europe is dated 11-th or 12-th century, and in Russia
>>>(or better Ukrain) to 16-th or so 17-th. 

MZ:
>>The first university in Europe was started by Plato in the Vth century
>>B.C.E.  To cite an Armenian friend of mine, at the time our ancestors
>>built their temples, the ancestors of the Slavs were sitting in the
>>trees, and spitting at each other.  Of course, he said it in Russian.

SV:
>  Well said. But.. at the time your ancestors built their
>temples there were already Chinese and Indian temples, to
>say nothing about Egyptians, Greeks, or Romans. 

Surely not the Roman arrivistes.

SV:
>						 And the
>ancestors of Slavs were sitting on the trees next
>to the ancestors of Frenchmen and Germans. So your Armenian
>friend could use French instead.

As a matter of fact, he could.  Can you?

>Serega

cordially,
mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
"Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."
From: milsh@nmr-z.mgh.harvard.edu (Alex Milshteyn)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Translation problem
Date: 6 Jan 93 21:32:08 GMT
Organization: Mass General Hospital CIPR

In articles people write:
%-> >> And for this one the dictionary entry is no help:
%-> >> sal'nik
%-> >

SALNIK may also mean a washer - a rubber part between, let's say
a bolt and a nut (may be rubber, metal, whatever).

Other meanings all allude to a larger or smaller bodies of fatty tissue
inside abdominal cavity.
-- 
Alexander M. Milshteyn M.D.   <milsh@cipr-server.mgh.harvard.edu>
CIPR, MGH in Boston, MA.     (617)724-9507 Vox  (617)726-7830 Fax
From: sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: some Soviet emigre restaurant jokes
Date: 7 Jan 93 22:45:32 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <C0I0n4.625@fiu.edu> kilman2y@fiu.edu (Yevgeny Kilman) writes:
>In article <103949@netnews.upenn.edu> sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin) writes:
>>  Nu konechno zhe! Vse eta neistrebimaja privychka v kazhdom g..ne
>>  (gospodine) videt' cheloveka, prichem ravnogo.

>>  Uchityvaja tsennoe zamechanie gospodina Landsberga, poslednjuju 
>>  frazu v moem otvete sleduet chitat':"Vbylye gody takih "chestnyh"
>>  posylali chistit' ofitserskie sapogi ili nakazyvali pletmi."

>Ia, bratczi, tashus' ......

 Ja uzh ubral vse eti gluposti o trudnoi zhizni prostogo
 muzhika v tsarskoi armii. Komu interesno mogut naiti ih
 v brezhnevskih uchebnikah istorii.

 A vam, starshina, hochu zametit', chto vasha glupaja 
 lektsija k delu ne otnositsja. Rech-to ved' ne shla
 o tom, chto horosho ili ploho zhilos', a tom ona shla,
 chto takih kak _VY_ posylali chistit' ofitserskie
 sapogi pri tsare-batjushke. I vy, vidimo v silu svoego
 starshinskogo uma, ne zametili, chto vam zdes' i v 
 nyneshnee vremja nikto ne predlozhil svoi botinochki
 dlja chistki.  I ja dazhe ved' jasno napisal, chto
 "dosluzhivshis'" do starshego leitenanta, prodolzhaju,
 po-krajnei mere po-nachalu, v kazhdom starshine videt'
 sebe ravnogo. A vy uporno pytaetes' u menja etu pivychku
 otbit'.

 I poslednee, vy tam kogda-to pisali pro chestnyh jidov,
 kotorye "gorbili v sovetskoi armii". Vy znaete, ja dumaju,
 chto vy kak raz tot samyi nechastyi primer zhida glupogo.
 Ved' jasno zhe, chto iz vashei glupoi mesti ili, esli hotite,
 zavisti vy podgovarivali teh samyh malorazvityh malchikov,
 kotoryh vy nazyvaete "churkami" iz-za ih natsyonal'nosti,
 delat' melkie pakosti. V etoi istorii patsany vygljadjat'
 prosto glupymi det'mi, zato vy predstavljaetes' zakonchennym
 podonkom. I, pover'te, gordit'sja tut nechem.

>Y.K.

 S.B.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: First astronaut?
From: TimeLord <X30KB@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Monday, 4 Jan 1993 12:48:21 EST
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

         Privet vsem kto chitaet eto.

         My step-grandfather was colonel in soviet air-force intelligence
 (or something like that). He told me once that Gagarin was not the first
astronaut ever. Supposedly there was another one before him - I believe, that
one's last name was Bondarenko, but his ship exploded on start.
     Does anyone knows something about it?
    Signing off
Signing off
                          *** TimeLord ***
From: mmh@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Matthew Huntbach)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,soc.culture.europe,talk.politics.soviet
Subject: Re: Bilingualism - a good cause!
Date: 8 Jan 93 12:50:23 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.

In article <1993Jan7.133532.4232@jyu.fi> ryyti@jyu.fi (Jarmo Ryyti) writes:
>So how soon an asian immigrant gets a citizenship in Great-Britain?
>On which terms?  Is hindi an official language of Great-Britain?
>Are there any plans for making hindi an official language in GB?
>
Many Asian immigrants are British citizens - they descend from
Asians who settled in East Africa and were given British
citizenship at the time. Children of Asian immigrants living in
the UK are automatically entitled to British citizenship. As
for "official language" it depends what you mean by that. In
those parts of the country where there are substantial numbers
of Asian immigrants most official documentation is available in
a range of Asian languages.

>Great-Britain should give up Northern-Ireland.

Yes, I fully agree - if the majority of the people in Northern
Ireland wanted this. As it happens they don't - the majority of
the people in Northern Ireland want to remain part of the UK,
and cosnsitently vote for political parties whose main policy
is maintaining the union with the UK.

>Scotland should get her independence.

Same again. If the majority of people in Scotland voted for
Scottish Independence, I would be only too pleased to see them
get it. Again, this hasn't happened, most people in Scotland
support some degree of self-determination, but not full
independence.
>:
>I would like to ask whether you consider it correct that Algeria pulled
>out the frenchmen after the liberation of Algeria. Over 1 million
>frenchmen had to leave Algeria. Should they have to stay there?
>
I believe that anyone borm there should have had the right to
stay there, irrespective of parentage.

>What about Germans should they have to become citizens of France after
>occupying Paris in 1940's ?

Had this occupation remained in place to the point where
children of German descent were born there and regarded it as
their home, yes. As I said, you should not deny anyone the
basic human right of nationality in the country of their birth,
nor should you punish children for the crimes of their
parents.

Matthew Huntbach