Doug: >> Nice, but still, Sirota just can't admit that it was President Barack >> Obama's health care speech. It's always the advisors, never the king, isn't >> it?
Louis: > Surprisingly, many Soviet citizens did not realize who was responsible for > the madness, thinking it was due to some breakdown in the system or > officials who had gone off the deep end. People would say: "If only Stalin > knew!" Sometimes concerned citizens would even try to write Stalin with > complaints, an action that was likely to prove a grave mistake. Stalin often > scribbled comments on documents and letters that went across his desk; > when he received pleas from citizens in desperate distress, he would scrawl > mocking or contemptuous remarks on them -- and often order the arrest of > the authors. before that, it was the Tsar. Many Russians did not realize who was responsible for the madness... -- Jim Devine / "laugh if you want to / really is kinda funny / cause the world is a car / and you're the crash test dummy" -- Devil Makes Three. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
