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   From: anton.usenet@gmail.com   
      
   James A. Donald kirjoitti:   
   > James A. Donald:   
   >>> The timing is suggestive - the satellites started   
   >>> getting frisky immediately following soviet defeat.   
      
   > Anton:   
   >> The Soviet Union was defeted by the people in the USSR and its   
   >> satellites. The people in those countries deserve the credit of the fall   
   >> of communism. They did it themselves: in East Berlin, Prague, Tallinn,   
   >> Vilnius, Riga, Moscow etc. Taking the credit to yourself for what THEY   
   >> did would be incredibly arrogant, unfair and insulting towards them.   
      
   > I was crediting what the contras did.   
      
   The Contras did what they all did in that country: kill peasants and   
   burn villages and kidnap young boys to become their soldiers. What   
   anybody did over there had no significance to life in Washington,   
   London, Berlin, Prague, Riga, Moscow.   
      
   --   
   Anton   
      
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