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To: arun gera who wrote (187858)	5/22/2022 1:20:13 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217700

Russia inspires me more now than USSR ever did, though Yuri Gagarin's trip was impressive. Our visit decades ago to Bulgaria and Romania was interesting but they were very repressive and impoverished. Yugoslavia was better but hardly lovely. At one time USSR at least inspired an idealism based on communism. And 1950s USSR seemed at least equal to the capitalist west and way over the poor third world. Russia does not have those clear advantages any more. They do have a huge land mass, natural resources, nuclear weapons, and a well educated workforce. I'm even thinking that Crimea might turn out to be a good place to have a summer holiday home. Heck, even go and live there. Mariupol should have cheap property available soon. I could buy a steel works there for pennies on the dollar. Become an oligarch. I should get Google Earth out and have a look around. One of my great great grandfathers had a go at conquering Crimea for England, but that ended badly with his death from wounds. I prefer financial transactions, voting, and agreements rather than wars such as the Kievans have inflicted on the east for years. Donald Trump offered to buy Greenland for example. USA did buy Alaska. And Louisiana. Mqurice