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To: Yaacov who wrote (8780)	5/17/1999 4:13:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

As my argument with goldsnow indicated, I am not so pessimistic, but you are right, the Central European countries are more advanced. I also agree that the main use of the international lending has been to help pacify the situation, and that the money has largely been wasted. But if Peter the Great could yank Russia into the 18th century, perhaps they can be yanked into the latter half of the twentieth century....

To: Yaacov who wrote (8780)	5/17/1999 4:23:00 PM
From: Milk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

...they have become morans!! US, IMF, World Bank and EC are wasting their time giving these people free money and free grain. Did you grow up in a former Soviet republic? M.

To: Yaacov who wrote (8780)	5/18/1999 3:39:00 PM
From: Milk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

I think shock treatment could work more efficiently in Nigeria than in Belaruss, Ukrain and Russia. Poland is and has been integral part of Europe, so are Czeechs and Hungarians. But the three ex-Soviet Republic understand only one therapy, Cheap Vodak Therapy! I regret to say this, but they have a lot of catching-up to do, and I am not sure they like to catch-up at all. 70 years of Communism, 400 years of Romanov authocracy, and 300 years of Tatar Yoke may have irreversibly damaged these three countries, to the extent that they have become morans!! US, IMF, World Bank and EC are wasting their time giving these people free money and free grain. This is not aid, this is black mail! If we don't give them free money, the will have a melt-down!! Your posts are so full of hatred, it even made me wonder about your childhood... I do not share you love and admiration for Zionism or Israel, but I keep my opinions to myself out of respect for the members of this board; you, however, continue to post derogatory remarks about countries you know very little about. This is a public forum, so if you want to discuss Israel instead of the conflict in Kosovo, fine. Let's see, you are whining about the humanitarian help to "irreversibly damaged" countries... Israel is receiving billions of dollars a year in aid from the US, not including the countless billions in military aid - does that ever make you wonder if Israel would have survived, both economically and politically, without this kind of support? M.