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To: elmatador who wrote (15530)	3/19/2007 5:16:57 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217549

You believe some wacky stuff. Does all the crap come to you in a dream or are these ideas induced by Bacalhau fumes like the Oracle of Greece? In any event I can assure you, based on the experience of some of my extended family that it was very easy to leave the Russian controlled areas at the end of World War II if you had the money to travel. After 1949 it became more difficult and by 1961 you saw the building of the Berlin Wall. In later years travel became easier again. During the Brezhnev era my Grandfather's step-sister, a Doctor and Soviet citizen, traveled to Paris twice a year to visit family and continued to do so until her death in Moscow. She spoke fluent French and could have easily moved to Paris, but at that point in life you get settled into what you know best. To be fair, her life in Moscow was hardly the standard Soviet issue as a result of her last name and family history. .

To: elmatador who wrote (15530)	3/19/2007 12:26:15 PM
From: 8bits	Respond to of 217549

His family collaborated with the Nazis. Soviets would treat them really bad. They cut a deal with Soviets to provide intelligence and young Soros got out of Hungary. Where did you read this..? Here is what wikipedia has on George Soros: "Native Hungary, and move to England Soros was thirteen years old when Nazi Germany took military control over its wavering ally Hungary (March 21, 1944), and started exterminating Hungarian Jews in the Holocaust. Soros worked briefly for the Jewish Council, which had been established by the Nazis, to deliver messages to Jewish lawyers being called for deportation. Soros was not aware of the consequence of the messages. To avoid his son being apprehended by the Nazis, his father had Soros spend the summer of 1944 living with a non-Jewish Ministry of Agriculture employee, posing as his godson. Years later, this led to false accusations of collaboration with the Nazis. In the following year, Soros survived the battle of Budapest, as Soviet and Nazi forces fought house-to-house through the city. Soros first traded currencies during the Hungarian hyperinflation of 1945-1946. In 1946, Soros escaped the Soviet occupation by participating in an Esperanto youth congress in the West. Soros was taught to speak the language from birth and thus is one of the rare native Esperanto speakers. Soros emigrated to England in 1947 and graduated from the London School of Economics in 1952. While a student of the philosopher Karl Popper's, Soros funded himself by taking jobs as a railway porter and a waiter at Quaglino's restaurant where he was told that with hard work he might one day become head waiter. He also worked in a mannequin factory, but was fired for being too slow at putting on the heads. He eventually secured an entry-level position with an investment bank in London."