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To: struwwelpeter
"I've a friend who was a hostage at Dubrovka two years ago, and we've gone round and round on "blame"."

So, what you're saying here is that the only person that we know who was actually inside that theater blames the Russians for the deaths?

64 posted on 09/20/2004 6:38:47 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez ( Even Jane Fonda apologized. Will you, John?)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Pretty much. Ms. Gubareva's take on the Beslan massacre:

Pro Osetiyu pogovorim v drugoy raz, a luchshe voobshche ne budem sporit', potomu chto possorimsya. Moe mnenie traditsionno ne sovpadaet s tvoim. Ne v chechentsakh problema! Nel'zya prichislyat' vsyu natsiyu k terroristam v ugodu Putinu. Terrorizm - ponyatie internatsional'noe.

"Let's talk about Ossetia another time, in general it's better that we don't argue, because we'll just get into a fight. My opinion traditionally doesn't coincide with yours, anyway. The problem is not the Chechnyans! You can't count a whole nation as terrorists to Putin's benefit. Terrorism - it's an international understanding."

In an interview about her ordeal (from a Karaganda, Kazakhsan, website here, my translation here):

(Interviewer):...the Russian bride of Baraev. Have you talked to this girl?

Gubareva: Yes. But I but know her only from the internet. I ran across her letter on the site dedicated to "Northeast". And the girl's letter was written with such sharp pain, that her pain joined with mine. The loss of my loved ones was thoughtless. The death was only for someone's political ambitions... I should, probably, confess that have have no pity for Chechyans, but I can't exactly say that their deaths were thoughtless. I looked at them: young, handsome fellows and girls. They conducted themselves properly with us, didn't try to offend. They weren't rude or rough or insulting. And I think that in principal they might have had completely different lives. Obviously everyone is someone's child, someone's brother or sister. Whether he was bad or good, for someone his life is important and dear.

I wasn't there, nothing similar has ever happened to me, thank God. Her opinion is interesting, and she's assembled trunk-loads of documents to support it, but I'm not one to let facts get in the way of my own beliefs ;-)

71 posted on 09/20/2004 7:05:27 PM PDT by struwwelpeter
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