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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
My family was a wedding present to Catherine the Great, so she is not exactly high on our favorite Russians (although to be fair, it was her father who gave his excess serfs away).

In fact, she ranks right up there with Stalin, who forcibly exiled everyone who still lived in Huck (now named Splavnucha) to Siberia and then had the tombstones in the cemetery torn up to erase all evidence of the village's previous inhabitants.

29 posted on 07/15/2008 7:26:42 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. - George Patton)
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To: Stonewall Jackson

Catherine II “the Great” was a German princess who only learned to speak Russian after moving to Russia.


31 posted on 07/15/2008 7:36:20 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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