Here follows my repsonse in our semi-private ;-) thread:
On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, PETER VOROBIEFF wrote:
> You may be right; however, I think that this is the case when one of the
> competing FAQs is clearly detrimental to the very existence of two
> newsgroups.
That I agree with; however, 'se la zsizny' as the French say ;-<...
> BTW, here's is the answer to the question raised by somebody in this thread -
> WHY soc.culture.soviet and now soc.culture.russian are such a breeding
> ground for kooks? Simply because most of my compatriots (and former
> compatriots) are _very_ easy to intimidate. Student visas, temporary
> contracts, constant fear of returning home to crime, corruption and
> unemployment plus ingrained mistrust of all and any power structures
> and reluctance to seek help even from own newsadmin.
>
> Not incidentally, quite a few kooks who thrive on torturing these sheep
> are _former_ citizens of the Soviet Union, unable to get rid of the
> subconscious totalitarian heritage and craving for self-justification
> over those who, in their opinion, are lower on the pecking order.
I know this all too well; one reason I dearly wish the vulisoids could
be made disappear is that their soulmates among my fellow
(ex-)countrymen, who haven't quite develop the full arsenal of online
warfare yet, are bound to learn from them... Incidentally, perhaps you
were too kind in not listing the underlying reason: their blind
nationalistic (and antisemitic, perhaps not coincidentally) rage!
By the way didn't you mean to copy your response to the list too?
{he did...}
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