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> >From: "ChrisD(RJ)" <chrisd at russiajournal.com>
> >Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> >To: "'lbo-talk at lists.panix.com'" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> >Subject: RE: Russia and booze
> >Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 13:06:05 +0400
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> >Sorry about the endless series of short snips (I'm doing this at work
> >between jobs, so I forget stuff).
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> >In the villages in Russia, where living standards are very very low,
> >practically every male is an alcoholic. I lived in a village for a while.
> >Vodka is the only light in their lives.
> >.
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> Back when I was a quasi-Sovietologist-quasi cause I don't know Russian,
not
> that they care in poli sci or phil depts--I was hired to teach "Marxist
and
> Russian philosophy" at Ohio State, in the phil dept, joint with Slavic
> Studies, and Itold them, I don't know Russian and no one would mistake me
> for an expert in "Rusian philosophy" outsider of a knowledge of the
Russian
> Marxist classics; they said, no matter--this was back in the Gorby days;
> later they decided I was several shades too red for them, sorry about the
> digression--anyway, back when I was a sort of S-ologist, I hada friend
who
> loved to quote a statstic from Morbidity and Mortality Reporter, a former
US
> govt publication put out by the HSS, to the effect that in the mid 1970s,
> 10,000 Russians a year froze to death while drunk.
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> Sorry about the shaggy dog stoty.
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> jks
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