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To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (58075)	1/16/2001 12:04:13 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

When I was longshoring after hrs I would find some Russian crews who would hide me out in the crew quarters , ( from the officers ) we would play chess and drink vodka and if no one could translate use hand signals to bull shit. They were very human and didn't buy into their idiolgy BS as much as most Americans buy into ours. The Officers were much more "straight" than American Officers , and I'm sure they would have tossed me off had they found me..but they crews had a cover story ready and gave me stack of the Propaganda hand outs ready to show the officers if we got discovered. To me it was a poor mans way of visiting Russia on the gut level, I liked chess but they could out drink me !!! I also took things to trade not so much to make money ( as they had very little) but to get souvenirs ..I still have some of the Bear Skin hats <G> But no; for the most part from what I could see they didn't have a lot of respect for their leaders. This was back in the 70s before "peristoka" A Joke they told a lot was, "they pretend to pay us" "So we pretend to work" ------------ For the most part we didn't even get into politics just seaman type stuff .. Jim