>> rom: Brian Siano <siano at mail.med.upenn.edu>
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>> Gosh, the poor guy. Surrounded by yes-men, unable to discern the
>> truth from reality... why, the man must have been _powerless_ to resist.
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> You're really hostile to this whole concept of finding explanations
> for things, aren't you?
No, I'm hostile to these ugly apologetics for Joseph Stalin.
>> Call me a deluded bourgeous, but something about freedom of travel,
>> access to all kinds of luxury items, a much freer and open society,
>> nicer clothes, computer networks, cheap books of an infinite variety
>> makes the US of 2003 seem a lot nicer than the USSR of the 60s or 70s.
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> Like I said, it's a matter of taste. BTW the USSR did not ban books.
A desire for freedom and an open society is just a matter of "taste?" The Soviet Union "did not ban books?"
This argument is over.