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To: koan who wrote (8980)	12/15/2010 1:15:28 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	Read Replies (1) of 10087

My grandfather emigrated from the Ukraine about 1911 or 12. In '16 he filled out his savings with a loan from his mining employer and sent passage for his wife, children, and his brother and family. At the last moment my great uncle decided to stay home. He and family disappeared during the first purge of the Kulaks. They had the temerity to think they owned their own lives, implements and stock. Life under the Czar was rude in accordance with the times, but there was some liberalization occurring. That ended with the Marxist inspired collectivization. Mine had the luck to come where capitalism more prevailed despite Wilson, then Hoover/FDR and successors. Life under democratic socialism can be temporarily acceptable to those who don't know better. Events concentrated in Europe imply an implosion. Allowing our potential to flower requires escape from tribal rules that dominated most of humanities existence. It's a tragedy that experience is so unknown, so unrecognized. Three steps forward, sometime thirty back.

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