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From: azlerner@quads.uchicago.edu (asia z lerner)
Subject: Re: Periodic laws of Russian politics
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In article <858156C069@VADIK.srcc.msu.su> Vladimir Butenko <butenko@stalker.srcc.msu.su> writes:
>In article <1993Sep25.153305.11509@midway.uchicago.edu>
>azlerner@quads.uchicago.edu (asia z lerner) writes:
>>In article <281nsf$qe3@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> viznyuk@mps.ohio-state.edu (Dragon Fly) writes:
>>>There were persisent rumors in Sovok that he was "terminated" by
>>>Brezhnev's mafia after he tried to fight corruption.
>>
>>Really? My image of him was as being connected
>>to a respirator most of the time. Did he really
>>try to fight corruption? It begins to sound
>>suspiciously like Gorby was part of a trend,
>>rather than the iconoslast individualist that
>>I took him to be.
> Look, guys - they loved all those  Gorby/Andropovs,  then  they  cared
> about them (at least, Gorby) - now they still remember them - and even
> remember russian jokes (hairy-bald) which are 15 years old... And they
> don't know the second part of that joke


Instead of frothing in the mouth about grandmothers
that never did you any harm, why don't you tell
us what was the second part of the joke?


