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From: Tzortzakakis Dimitrios on 30 Mar 2010 09:11

? "John Turco" <jtur(a)concentric.net> ?????? ??? ??????
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> Tzortzakakis Dimitrios wrote:
>>
>> ? "John Turco" <jtur(a)concentric.net> ?????? ??? ??????
>> news:4B821265.E28771E6(a)concentric.net...
>
> <heavily edited for brevity>
>
>> >> >> But what makes our western countries great is freedom;I want
>> >> >> a turntable, so I work and buy one! No chairman of the supreme
>> >> >> Soviet decides what should the people have, everything is
>> >> >> available.
>> >> >
>> >> > On a related note, I recall horror stories concerning Russian
>> >> > television sets, manufactured in the days of the former Soviet
>> >> > Union.
>> >> >
>> >> > It seems that those Commie "boob tubes" of old, had a terrifying
>> >> > propensity to catch fire...which, at the very least, was not exactly
>> >> > conducive to TV viewing pleasure!
>> >>
>> >> Well, I'm not certain whether they imploded (not exploded) but
>> >> certainly
>> >> some chinese did, and they were lucky to buy any TVs, because the
>> >> commie
>> >> countries had what the germans call "Mangelwirtschaft", starving
>> >> economy.
>> >> I read an article about the first McDonalds in Moscow, and it was a
>> >> sensation that, for the first time in the USSR, there was a restaurant
>> >> that could serve everything that was on the menu!
>> >
>> > Those rascally Russians finally did >something< right, eh?
>>
>> Yeah, if you count out ICBMs and kalaschnikows, they supplied each
>> household
>> with a B/W Tv, and a primus stove.
>
> <edited>
>
> While I don't know what a "primus stove" is, it doesn't seem very
> sophisticated.
>
> Better that Muscovites "have it their way" at the local burger joint, I'd
> imagine.
Like the famous greek "Petrogaz", named after a brand, like Xerox. It means
all gas ranges, that run on a gas bottle (LPG-Liquified Petroleum Gas),
which usually have two or three rings, and no oven. It was a vast
improvement on the real "primus" stove, working on naptha or kerosene, and
needing to pump it up every time you fired it up. So tells my mother. Or the
"parastia", where you light a fire with wood (logs, small branches etc.) and
cook your food, or even your coffee.


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Tzortzakakis Dimitrios
major in electrical engineering
mechanized infantry reservist
hordad AT otenet DOT gr


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