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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Baruch Menachem on December 23, 2009, 11:59:07 AM
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I often visit a site called "English Russia." Lots of strange stories out of the xussr. Including this one.
How! (http://englishrussia.com/?p=7385)
Hero fighter pilot of the Red air force got shot down and captured by the germans, managed to escape. Ran to Soviet lines, was arrested for treason (SOP for those captured who escaped) managed to escape again and managed to make his way in the confusion to Canada. Where he hid out on an indian reservation. Recognizing his fighting skills, the chief married him off to his daughter, and the pilot from the Ukraine became the chief of tribe of Canadian indians.
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What a great story. Somehow my life seems soooo dull.
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considering the amenities of a German POW camp, and a Soviet concentration camp..... I will settle for dull
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Not to derail this story, but in the late 80s I was working with a person from Romania who wanted to join the Navy. He really wanted electronics. I couldn't offer that job to him because of his nationality. He told me the story of how he escaped from Communist Romania. It was as if it were out of a movie.
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considering the amenities of a German POW camp, and a Soviet concentration camp..... I will settle for dull
Dull has it's attractions but I'm never going to make a million from an autobiography. :(
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Not to derail this story, but in the late 80s I was working with a person from Romania who wanted to join the Navy. He really wanted electronics. I couldn't offer that job to him because of his nationality. He told me the story of how he escaped from Communist Romania. It was as if it were out of a movie.
I worked a lot here in the states with a very good engineer who also escaped from communist Romania. He planned it for years. The day he graduated from the technical institute with his engineering degree he crawled under the barbed wire with bullets whizzing over his head. He said being killed trying to escape would have been better than living in communist Romania.
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I worked a lot here in the states with a very good engineer who also escaped from communist Romania. He planned it for years. The day he graduated from the technical institute with his engineering degree he crawled under the barbed wire with bullets whizzing over his head. He said being killed trying to escape would have been better than living in communist Romania.
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They were a lot of people on this side of that fence that wanted that way of life (communism)....but they weren't crawling under the fence to get to it. Lazy bunch ain't they.
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They just got themselves elected to the Senate instead.
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I often visit a site called "English Russia." Lots of strange stories out of the xussr. Including this one.
How! (http://englishrussia.com/?p=7385)
Hero fighter pilot of the Red air force got shot down and captured by the germans, managed to escape. Ran to Soviet lines, was arrested for treason (SOP for those captured who escaped) managed to escape again and managed to make his way in the confusion to Canada. Where he hid out on an indian reservation. Recognizing his fighting skills, the chief married him off to his daughter, and the pilot from the Ukraine became the chief of tribe of Canadian indians.
I followed your link to the EnglishRussian site. That is hilarious. I don't know if you read any of the comments on the site, but it really pisses the Russians off that someone is posting funny stuff about their "great" country and they can't find out who is in charge of the site. I think they want to sic the KGB on them.
They have no sense of humor. They are also still teaching the soviet propaganda in their schools. They still believe Russia won WWII and saved the west from the tyranny of Hitler. They seem to think the great shirtless ninny putin is some kind of a god who should never be portrayed in a humorous way. They blame the USA for causing the price of oil to drop resulting in their current economic problems because crude oil is their only export. Those people have a serious inferiority complex. Its a shame they still don't know how to manufacture any quality products which can be exported abroad.
I would hate to live there. We have some major traffic jams in cities in the United States, but nothing compared to the traffic jams in Russia. They have paved streets in the big cities, but all the big cities seem to be connected by dirt roads which turn to mud when it rains.
If Obama has his way, we may soon resemble Russia.
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considering the amenities of a German POW camp, and a Soviet concentration camp..... I will settle for dull
When I was a young man, I had a friend who had experienced the pleasure of being a POW in a German prison camp for almost four years after his bomber was shot down early in the war. He often told me stories of the time he spent in the German camp and they usually were very funny.
Each week, a horse drawn wagon would appear in the camp with a large wooden barrel, a small engine, a long hose, and a tall pipe mounted on the wagon. The prisoners called it the "honey wagon". The contraption would pull up to the toilet pits and drop the hose into the pits, One of the Germans on the wagon would shovel some of the waste from the pit into the fire box of the engine. The waste would produce methane gas which would rise into the firing chamber of the engine. One of the Germans would then poke a long stick with burning cloth on one end into the open waste door of the engine. The resulting explosion would cause the engine to start running. As the waste warmed up, the engine would run better.
As new guests would arrive at the camp, it was an initiation for the old guests to invite the new guests to witness the pumping of the pits. The old guests would encourage the new guests to witness the process very close to the wagon because the first explosion and subsequent backfires of the engine would cause huge amounts of waste to rise through exhaust pipe at high speed resulting in a rain of poop on everyone within fifty feet of the wagon.
They also made a sport of taking care of the officers. Many officers upon arrival as new guests assumed they would be afforded the same privileges they enjoyed before they were captured. They usually expected better food, better quarters, someone to assist them in their daily routines. The older NCO's enjoyed making their lives miserable. The officers who realized quickly that everyone was in the same boat as other guests did okay, but the ones who insisted their rank earned special privileges had a rough time.
Near the end of the war, most of the local Germans who had been guards at the camp had been sent to fight at the front. It left only old men and children serving as guards. It was a normal routine for the guests to line up each morning and march through the small German town to the farms for work. Early in the war, the guards were heavily armed and would shoot any guest who tried to escape. Near the end of the war, the guards were so old or small they couldn't carry their weapons. The guests would march through town to the farms carrying the loaded weapons of the guards and helping the guards make the trip each day.
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I have a friend who feigned insanity to avoid conscription and be allowed to emigrate to the West (apparently the commies had no objection letting you leave if they thought you would be a burden to the other side).
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If Obama has his way, we may soon resemble Russia.
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If Obama and the Democrats have their way, we may soon envy the Soviets!