"Bruce Mallory" <bm@mallory.org> wrote in message 
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> All the comments of my humble opinion show how totally, badly, hopelessly 
> ignorant my fellow yankees are. Some are talking in the present tense, as 
> if the Soviet Union still existed today.

It does. Only the name has changed to protect the guilty.