<div>On 5/3/06, Chris Doss <<a href="mailto:lookoverhere1@yahoo.com">lookoverhere1@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> --- Wojtek Sokolowski <<a href="mailto:sokol@jhu.edu">sokol@jhu.edu</a>> 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 </blockquote><div> 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!  </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <a href="http://mail.yahoo.com">http://mail.yahoo.com </a> ___________________________________ <a href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a> </blockquote></div> -- Jerry Monaco's Philosophy, Politics, Culture Weblog is Shandean Postscripts to Politics, Philosophy, and Culture <a href="http://monacojerry.livejournal.com/">http://monacojerry.livejournal.com/</a> His fiction, poetry, weblog is Hopeful Monsters: Fiction, Poetry, Memories <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/jerrymonaco/">http://www.livejournal.com/users/jerrymonaco/</a> Notes, Quotes, Images - From some of my reading and browsing <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/community/jerry_quotes/">http://www.livejournal.com/community/jerry_quotes/</a>