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To: Burkeman1
The Soviets managed to keep their people from escaping that country over the longest border in the world for a hell of lot less than 100 billion a year

Yeah they shot them, also they had the buffer zone of their eastern european puppets. I guess you never heard of the term "Iron Curtain".

58 posted on 01/08/2004 4:53:47 PM PST by Dane
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To: Dane
El Campiseno of Spanish Civil War fame still managed his escape from the Gulag via Iran.
61 posted on 01/08/2004 4:55:06 PM PST by Burkeman1 ("If you see ten troubles comin down the road, nine will run into the ditch before they reach you")
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