<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body> Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid0ISX000E0R1NVP@jhuml3.jhu.edu"> <pre wrap=""> </pre> <pre wrap=""> I suspect this is the case of a Russian immigrant who is trying to be more catholic than the pope and show his loyalty to his new masters. Such deference to to authority is actually quite common in Eastern Europe - they would suck up to whoever is in power at any given moment. </pre> </blockquote> Yes. It's not that uncommon here either. You certainly see it in the corporate environment. <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid0ISX000E0R1NVP@jhuml3.jhu.edu"> <pre wrap=""> A particularly despicable sub-species. Now you understand why Stalin belived trhat for this kind four wall are three too many.</pre> </blockquote> This part doesn't make sense. Unswerving devotion to Stalin came from exactly such people. Joanna <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid0ISX000E0R1NVP@jhuml3.jhu.edu"> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>