Thank you so much for this, Stan! It means the world to me, to be able to see what my mother saw when she spent nearly 2 years there. Kind regards, Krystyna ...
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Krystyna Szypowska
szypowska
Dec 14, 2012 8:08 pm
Dear Group, Jonathan Durand is a Montreal filmmaker who has been assisting us with recording Survivor Testimonies in Canada. He is also working on a...
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John Halucha
john.halucha
Dec 14, 2012 8:14 pm
This seems a bit off topic for the forum, but since it's been relatively quiet lately here goes: Language snobbery is not unique to Polish or to this era. I am...
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Barry Turner (Journal...
bturner@...
Dec 14, 2012 8:39 pm
I am interested in writing a historical review of all mass deportations that took place between 1936 and 1941 in Eastern Europe and Russia and would welcome...
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Barry Turner (Journal...
bturner@...
Dec 15, 2012 10:05 am
Some further commentary on why the young reject history. History is a subject that is best served cold might be an observation for us all to begin with. By...
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Stanislaw Zwierzynski
zwierzinski1957
Dec 15, 2012 10:27 am
Barry! All of what you wrote is really interesting. But in this group, as I understand its basic principles formulated founder, we see mostly our own stories...
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Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Dec 15, 2012 10:33 am
Dear Barry, I remember that when I was studying Russian during the cold war, my English colleagues were always told that we would be mistaken as someone iz...
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Stanislaw Zwierzynski
zwierzinski1957
Dec 15, 2012 10:45 am
Dear Mark! Since the cold war, you were in USSR? Or preparing to seize the Soviet Union? I understand from all writing, that to learn Polish - only in...
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Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Dec 15, 2012 11:29 am
Dear Stan, FYI, I studied Russian and International Relations at the University of Surrey. Part of our course was to study in the USSR. I spent 3 month...
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Barry Turner (Journal...
bturner@...
Dec 15, 2012 11:54 am
Stan I am trying to understand the deportations in the context of what was happening in 1930's Europe. It is only possible by seeing the vents that led up to...
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Barry Turner (Journal...
bturner@...
Dec 15, 2012 11:56 am
Mark I also took a sharp tangent when the Berlin wall came down. I was in East Germany at the time and fulfilled a long held ambition to climb over it. Barry ...
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Dan Ford
godanford
Dec 15, 2012 1:58 pm
I often wondered what happened to all the Sovietologists in 1991.... - Dan Ford US...
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Dan Ford
godanford
Dec 15, 2012 2:04 pm
I have experienced this dichotomy at first hand. In 1991 Smithsonian Institution Press published my history of the "Flying Tigers" (American Volunteer Group...
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Dan Ford
godanford
Dec 15, 2012 2:32 pm
In the Wall Street Journal this morning: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323981504578179310418828782.html If the software says it's only for...
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Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Dec 15, 2012 6:11 pm
Ah yes, we poor Sovietologists... I had the good fortune to go through Checkpoint Charlie in 1988. That was quite an interesting experience, but I had always...
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Barry Turner (Journal...
bturner@...
Dec 15, 2012 7:25 pm
I was a 'Sovietologist' between 1979 and 1989, although I did not realise it at the time. I had some great experiences of Checkpoint Charlie and Checkpoint...
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John Halucha
john.halucha
Dec 15, 2012 10:37 pm
Dear Barry, You invited comment from historians and I am decidedly not a historian. However, your email id indicates a connection to journalism and since I...
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Stanislaw Zwierzynski
zwierzinski1957
Dec 15, 2012 10:46 pm
Dear Barry and Mark! Returning now from guests, I am ready to continue our interesting discussion and open to you, dear Sovietologists some secret Russian...
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Barry Turner (Journal...
bturner@...
Dec 15, 2012 11:03 pm
John Thanks for your detailed response, it is excellent in its consideration of all issues. I am only interested in the way the deportations happened and how...
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Stanislaw Zwierzynski
zwierzinski1957
Dec 15, 2012 11:10 pm
John! You say hot, but sometimes not case. You equate Stalin and Hitler. For you sure, for example, not agree Polish Jews (they, too, citizens of Poland),...
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Barry Turner (Journal...
bturner@...
Dec 15, 2012 11:22 pm
Stan & Mark It is excellent that we can speak without fear of political correctness and I am not offended by words that we would not say in polite...
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Mark and Oyun
mark_oyun
Dec 16, 2012 6:55 am
Dear John, Was Poland a fascist state in the 1930s? Not Fascist as it was understood in at the time. Note the capital letter. An argument could be made for...
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Basia
basiazielins...
Dec 16, 2012 10:11 am
John, Stan, Barry, Dan – and all of you at KS Because I am not a historian, I do not have a profound knowledge of history, in any context, and possibly I...
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Barry Turner (Journal...
bturner@...
Dec 16, 2012 12:06 pm
Mark The 1930's were a nasty time in the majority of Europe and the nationalism that surfaced from the ruins of Austria-Hungary after WW1 was a vicious and...
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Barry Turner (Journal...
bturner@...
Dec 16, 2012 12:36 pm
John I most strongly applaud the gallantry of the Polish nation in its struggles against superpower aggressors. The bravery of those who stood up to Hitler,...
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Dan Ford
godanford
Dec 16, 2012 1:15 pm
... I'm not sure I agree with this. Poland in the early 1920s was a dysfunctional state in which multiple narrow parties each represented only a segment of...
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Barry Turner (Journal...
bturner@...
Dec 16, 2012 1:49 pm
It is quite right that European states that formed in the 1920's had little chance of forming democracies. They had no tradition of popular mandate and where...
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Stanislaw Zwierzynski
zwierzinski1957
Dec 16, 2012 2:40 pm
Dear Barry! You hung up on democracy, as if you think, that this form of social control is optimal. But it sits in your head and not necessarily ultimate...
