Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "3899jk" <3899jk@gmail.com> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Qbasic Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 20:17:59 +1000 Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <918678692.481047046.074795.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <6fab19ab-ce3a-4eb8-8bff-6d344f0a131c@googlegroups.com> <20160402204929.49ca3ca23969353d60364231@eircom.net> <4132d741-7aa9-41da-a551-67f1af59c438@googlegroups.com> <676130823.481392362.599707.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <5a8fe25c-ae81-482d-8194-b2967712ef4f@googlegroups.com> <13c7496a-c057-4cbb-a57f-1f9a1fec82ea@googlegroups.com> <1503657449.482357596.663743.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <0eKdnd5M7u-BhY3KnZ2dnUU78eHNnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 9wvdi+7zFjUa/zktDFmX8QcEReveQgu8AjzpcF4dxAvhhI91Y= Cancel-Lock: sha1:nP5iTG4oreUyKTMrS8TzWsZxNZw= In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:162792 wrote in message news:slrnnh25ro.18a.mausg@Smaus.org... > On 2016-04-14, Andrew Swallow wrote: >> On 14/04/2016 21:20, Peter Flass wrote: >>> wrote: >>>> On 2016-04-13, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: >> {snip} >> >>>> >>>> As I understand it, too. >>>> >>>> There was a thing, that Baltic State, and Eastern Polish who fought >>>> for the Germans late in the war had a fairly free entry to the >>>> US, UK after the war, but some of these groups had a bad human >>>> rights record. There is a lot coming out now about the ethnic Russians >>>> that were forcibly returned at the Wars end. >>> >>> One Cossack group surrendered to (I think) the Brits in Austria, >>> including >>> their wives and children. Because some politician had signed some scrap >>> of >>> paper they were turned over to the Russians and (of course) never heard >>> from again. If I had been the officer in charge I'd have given the >>> Russians my middle finger and taken the consequences, rather than carry >>> that on my conscience for the rest of my life. >>> >> >> We are now talking about why the UK and USA fought the Cold War. >> Newspapers changed from calling the Russian leader Uncle Joe to Stalin. > > > This is a dim memory, but I think that the winning horse in the 1948 > Grand National was called "Russian Hero".. 1949 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Grand_National_winners > He would have been born, and named, several years earlier. > (For explanations, USAians cann ask an adult)