XPost: soc.culture.baltics, soc.culture.czecho-slovak, soc.culture.russian   
   XPost: soc.culture.nordic   
   From: valtsu@stadissa.fi   
      
   James A. Donald wrote:   
   > David Friedman   
   >> On Usenet (or elsewhere) the fact that one has been   
   >> told something does not imply that it is true. James   
   >> corrected one error, although it took him a while.   
   >   
   > I claimed rubles.  After digging around, I found it   
   > was not rubles, it was Soviet IOUs denominated in   
   > Finnish Marka, which, since the Soviets were disinclined   
   > to pay in a **timely fashion,**   
      
   Mind you, all payments from the Soviet side were made in a timely   
   fashion, only when the USSR started to collapse in the late 1980-s the   
   delays and accumulation of imbalance started.   
     and the Finns disinclined to   
   > demand payment, was not a major improvement on rubles.   
   > :   
   >    
   >   
   >> I suspect that you see the argument as your group   
   >> being the Finns, the other group being Americans, and   
   >> the argument a fancy version of "Americans are better   
   >> than Finns. No, Finns are better than Americans.   
   >   
   > My position, however, is merely that today's Finns are   
   > inferior to their fathers.   
   >   
   > The fathers of today's Finns had much to brag about,   
   > considerably more than the fathers of the today's   
   > Americans.   
   >   
   > But there are some Americans who have shown themselves   
   > the equal of their fathers.   
   >   
      
   I just wonder what the fathers of Finns having been in the war would   
   actually have said of what happened after he war up till now. Would they   
   really be ashamed or not.   
      
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