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To: Bilow who wrote (50045)	10/7/2002 5:48:37 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You were talking to "expatriates", who are, by definition, the people for which living in a repressive regime was the most difficult. I was talking to people who had the initiative (and good fortune) to have gotten out one way or another. I go years without any disputes with my neighbors, shop keepers or minor traffic incidents. I wonder what your life is like, that these would be common occurrences. So does most everyone, myself included. But all it takes is once under one of these regimes. How lucky do you feel Bilow ? If you think, without personal experience or knowing anyone who has come from there and survived the culture shock, that it was so easy to go about day to day life in an eastern block country like Romania or Bulgaria I guess there isn't much more to say. Hell, Switzerland is a bizarre little country where you can expect a neighbor to notify the police that you're parking several centimeters too far from the curb (and you can be sure that the idiot went out with a frigging ruler and measured it), so one can just imagine Belarus.