--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> --- Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com> wrote:
>
> > All during the winter `41-42, the Germans were
> > pinned down along a
> > front running from a few miles north of Murmansk
> > down to just outside
> > of Rostov. (How long is this? More than 1500
> miles?)
>
> I spent a week last year in Rostov-on-Don (which is
> the Rostov in question -- there are actually two
> Rostovs). It's Cossack territory. The population of
> Rostov is about 40% urbanized Cossacks (or "asphalt
> Cossacks" as their brethren in the countryside
> derisively call them). I wonder if the Soviet song
> "Nashi kazaki idut, idut v Berlin" (Our Cossacks Are
> Going, Are Going to Berlin) is connected to Rostov.
> Anyway I really liked it. The train from Moscow
> followed the Don Riven for the last leg of the trip,
> and I could see lots of kids and young people
> swimming
> in it. It struck me as a very relaxed city. It was
> late July and hotter than Hell, though.
>
> >
> > We wonder now how these pleas from Erhenburg fell
> on
> > deaf ears in the
> > West more than fifty years ago.
>
> Did they fall on deaf ears? He's addressing a
> specific
> audience -- American Jews. How much assistance did
> US
> Jews give to Britain and the USSR?
>
> Nu, zayats, pogodi!
>
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