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Subject: Oh right.

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Ed Harris (back in London)

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Date Posted: 17:59:33 01/21/05 Fri
In reply to: European Pride 's message, "First in Space, and still going strong" on 17:25:58 01/21/05 Fri

So Yuri Gargarin and Sputnik were European, were they? Had you told that to the Soviet government forty years ago, I think that a quick visit by an agent with a poison-tipped brolly would have cut short your peculiarly anonymous life.

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[> [> Subject: Oddly enough they were
Author: Evropa! [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 18:32:56 01/21/05 Fri Gagarin came from the European part of Russia. The eastern boundary of Europe is well within the former Soviet Union. "I think that a quick visit by an agent with a poison-tipped brolly would have cut short your peculiarly anonymous life." That was the Bulgarian secret service, not the Soviets. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: How bizarre...
Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 20:32:30 01/21/05 Fri Do you honestly feel pride in an area of land whose eastern limit is vaguely defined by a low range of mountains and whose name is that of a Mediterranean princess chiefly famous for having sex with a bull? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: If.
Author: Ed Harris (London) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 00:39:10 01/22/05 Sat If you feel more in common with 1960s Soviet Russia than the USA, then I suspect that you are a minority instance. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]