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commieboy
11th November 2003, 23:05
It was speech and we had a teacher with an unrecognisable accent, i had had her as a substitute before but today i REALLY got to know her....i was in that class for the second hour in a row, (It's cool i never get tardies) and i began reading Robert service's Lenin. and she walked up to me and asked,"You're interested in lenin?" and i just said yes so she laughed and said, "I could probably tell you more than that book, they drilled that stuff into our heads when i went to school"

and i found out that she was from Belarus, and it was in the USSR. she gave a very good explaination of lenin's early life. and how Stalin was not supposed to get power and how he had trotski killed.

but what shocked me was that she told me that in the soviet schools, they told the students that ont twenty thousand people died on the soviet side in WWII TWENTY THOUSAND!?!?!?!?! that's such bullshit how could they believe that?

she also explained how the Germans took so many prisoners, and how stalin wouldn't trade his son for a german general as POWs.

That was a fun class, i hope she's back tomorrow.

Regicidal Insomniac
11th November 2003, 23:15
I once met a woman from Soviet Russia in a book store. The interesting part for me was that she really loved it there... in fact, she fled capitalism in 1990! :lol:

Kez
12th November 2003, 19:45
20,000 I THINK she meant 20,000,000

it was in their interests to say it was higher number...

thats the only redeeming point of stalin, on his son not being returned for more german soldiers

commieboy
12th November 2003, 20:35
no...she said twenty thousand....and i asked her "Really, twenty thousand?" and she said yes....

and again today i spoke with a German Exchange student..and she told me how she was born in East Germany and even showed me her little ID thing....

She also told me about her old boyfriend being a communist and her dad almost beating the shit out of him because of it.

Iepilei
13th November 2003, 01:03
I had a friend who was born in east Germany. However, he was north of Berlin so they allowed them free movement across the border.

That's something that baffled me, really.