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Re: The lights are on...
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Originally Posted by Pierre
I thought that was what you meant, but didn't want to comment as that it show a massive wedge of naivety on your part.
The countries behind the iron curtain were not what you would call " free" countries.
If the mothers of Moscow or Leningrad had started to congregate outside the nuclear bases of the CCCP they would have bee carted off to the gulag.
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That was the point I was trying to make (as I was in the Armed Forces at the time, and was actively involved in analysing and reporting on the USSR/Warsaw Pact capabilities and governmental systems) - the irony of people protesting against our "evil system", but they never felt the need to travel to the Warsaw Pact countries to do the same....
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