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Skriven 2007-03-24 17:51:00 av PETER COGGON
     Kommentar till en text av ALEXANDER KORYAGIN
Ärende: Re: Have I written  [1/2]
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Hello once again Alexander,

 -=> Quoting Alexander Koryagin to Peter Coggon <=-

 AK> While they are buying Russian oil at high price they are not very bad.
 AK> ;) 

  Well that is a plus for Russia!  Just don't leave Russia short of
oil for their own usage.

 AK> Even a miracle has happened when Irish cricket team bit Pakistan. ;)

   Yes, but regretably, a coach died.  I saw on the TV the Pakistanie
fans going nuts, protesting.   They may be good, but sooner or later
the world catches up to the best, and upsets happen.

 AK> In Russia when we are speaking about the USSR we think first of all of
 AK> 'the union'. Is 'a union' also the feminine gender? I wonder. ;)

   In those Hollywood movies, they seem to depict Russians calling their
homeland, the motherland.   I have heard it from relatives calling
their homeland, the old country.   I guess by calling it the motherland
it is to honour how in years passed, they have been blessed with food
from the soil, materials and keep warm.   Just like mum...

 AK> The consiquences, of the big-scale interference in the big-scale
 AK> environment, very difficult to predict. It is like interference in
 AK> climate. In both cases it may become too difficult to return 
 AK> all back to the initial point.

    When WW2 was on, weather all over the earth was messed up by
the cordite in shells.   When the West and East were building bigger
and better bombs to kill each other, the weather also went nuts.
<BTW: due to that contest we have nuked lands no good for 1 thousand years>

   Scary stuff.
 
 AK> In general, in that time it was hardly possible to find industrial
 AK> territories in all the Asia.

    Yes. Most of it was a family shop, and/or the individual doing
all the needed stuff.  They never had a concept like a factory
to produce on a large scale.   But they do now.

 AK> Yes, religion was the main engine of the events, but from the
 AK> beginning nobody asked the opinion of arabs on the issue. In such a way
 AK> it is difficult to count on their loyalty to the process.

     Yes.   Lawrence of Arbia during WW1, made promises for the Allies
to win against the Turks, and right after they promptly forgot, and
the Arabs have always remembered this insult, for being treated like
an inferior peoples.     Yes...as based on the past, they never even
consulted them, and still do not even with the Arab League of Nations.
It will take a miracle to overturn these insults, it was a bit too
much, but then the European powers were building empires.
 
 AK> It seems to me it is too dangerous to allow _any religion_ be an
 AK> argument in politics. For example there was moslem religion also and
 AK> actually the UN made a preference...

    The problem is down through history, politics and religion are
tied together to make a rightful cause for anything.   It is so
wrong.
 
 AK> It seems to me that WW2 was not provoked by religion. Why do you think
 AK> so? Vice versa the absence of divine had provoked such a cruelty.

     Agreed ... As the war went along, things got really cruel.
 
 AK>> to translate some books from Russian to English even if I am just an
 AK>> amateur. Learning the language is a quite captivating and useful
 AK>> thing. It is as an artificial respiration for brains, when in the
 AK>> vicinity there are no other tasks.

    There is so much that Russia can give the world, and also the world
to Russia to get to a better understanding, and one area is what you
are doing translating books.   I have met people doing as you are,
right or wrong, who did what...all is being translated, and then it
is left to history the truth...and we all must live with the good
and bad of our history.   I would sooner know this, then life a lie,
or a censored book of history painting my country as being squeaky
clean which I have found lately it is not.
 
 AK> All the great deeds have often been done by the people who did not
 AK> know at the beginning all the difficulties laying before them. It seems
 AK> to me it will be quite difficult for me to do it without English wife.
 AK> ;=) To write shoothly... I have already begun to translate a nice
 AK> Russian novel for children. The novel is very nice, and it is a pity
 AK> that the world has never read it.

      Thats the truth.   I found this with the natives in South America
whom opened up and made me feel all so welcomed after thinking other
things.   I really wish you a lot of luck in your project.

      Reminds me, of a meeting with an Arab.   At first he was cold
and distant and I guess full of hate of me.   But a simple greeting

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