On Mar 4, 2008, at 4:24 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
> The average
> Brehnev-era Soviet person would rarely if ever
> personally experience political oppression.
That's like saying the average person doesn't experience breathing. This is (on average breath) absolutely true--breath is so taken for granted that it very seldom is actually experienced personally. So with political repression under Stalinism.
Shane Mage
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