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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (39638)	9/7/2008 1:18:13 PM
From: petekoby	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220000

I agree with everything you said, but can make few remarks. Russian Empire expanded to current lands of Ukraine after multiple wars with Poland, and you know that Moscow first was burnt by Poles, couple of hundred years before Napoleon. Of Jewish question it is going back to Chmelnicki pogroms, which where by far more bloody then any pogroms in Odessa, Kishenev. Russians had multiple wars with Ottoman Turks, last expansion was I believe Adjaria with capital Batumy, which is part of Georgia today. Of course Odessa is far from Moscow, it is 1.35 hour on TY104, which I flew a lot back in 70th, or 20 hours by train. Odessa historically wanted to be free trade zone. People are more interesting to trade and do business then politics. “Snatching Bucovina from Romania is a great example and later settling ethnic Russians in Chernovtsy. Is therefore Bucovina Rusian? or Ukrainian (as its today) or Romanian as it was when my mother was born there?” I am not familiar with that question, was it part of Romania and Stalin grabbed it back? By the way my grand father from my father side from Tulchin, not that far away. But today you have to deal with practical problems how to prevent more civil wars or Russian Georgian conflicts type. Big test will be Nagorno Karabach and Prednestrovsky Region. I am also worry about Krim. All are very tough problems and I have hard time to see where it will end.