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To: wildandcrazyrussian
We need a better public education system in this country.

Were you in Tbilisi or Moscow or both?

62 posted on 06/27/2005 11:39:59 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: MarMema
Sorry the sentence was confusing. By "over there" I meant "Russia and vicinity", and we were in Moscow only. We had a chance to visit Sretensky Monastery (founding in hon of the Vladimir icon of the Mother of God, and now a major publishing house), Donskoy Monastery (founded to defend against the Tatars), and look inside the Andronikov Monastery (where Andrey Rublev lived in the 1400's), and visit many churches with the faithful happily practicing their faith. Not one sermon mentioned the Jews, and had more to do with living ther Gospel.

Never once in our 7 trips to Russia have we so much as met a person saying an unkind word about Jewish people, and as I said there are no such posters. Also since I can read Russian very well, I can affirm that I didn't see a single anti-Semitic book on display, even in bookstores on back streets. For a society that is supposedly founded on, and has its entire existence centered around, anti-Semitism, that is certainly an odd way to act.

I can report that I had several conversations with people there, and the good news is that they ARE deeply suspicious of George Soros, and are happy he was booted out of Russia. Propaganda articles such as these may be his revenge, but it won;t work, since the true state of affairs is easier to access then ever before.

67 posted on 06/27/2005 11:58:10 AM PDT by wildandcrazyrussian
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