Pioneer Wojtek, was: RE: [lbo-talk] it's inevitable

[Jerry Monaco]

On 5/3/06, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> --- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
> [WS:] How so?  Can't you simply ignore or delete my
> postings if you
> feel
> trampled?  Perhaps other people may want to read my
> rants.
>
> ---
>
> I for one look forward to your rants.
>
> BTW, I'm listening to a CD of old Young Pioneer songs,
> including my favorites, "Lenintsy idut" (The Leninists
> are Coming) and that great song about how Pioneers
> should always be ready ("Pioner, bud' gotov, vsegda
> bud' gotov!") to serve the country of the Soviets. I
> assume Poland had a comparable child
> recreation/political indoctrination system, leading
> into whatever the Polish version of Komsomol was. Did
> you guys also have the Oktyabryata (the pre-Pioneers
> little kids organizations, the "October babies" I
> would translate it as)?
>
> Most of my friends here

Where is here , Doss?

I too look forward to Woj's rants.

What I miss about the old U.S.S.R. is the state supported chess.  I don't
miss all of the international Chess cheating that went with it.  But great
Caesar, did the years 1948 to 1988 produce great chess in those old awful
Stalinist lands.

Botvinnik, Smyslov, Keres, Bronstein, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Korchnoi,
Karpov, Kasparov...  Never will we see the like again!

old enough to have been
> Pioneers have very fond memories of listening to
> boring lectures about Grandfather Lenin and then
> heading out to the playground. They were very proud of
> their uniforms. ;)
>
> I really like these songs!
>
>
> Nu, zayats, pogodi!
>
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