Re: Caucasian sketches

["Umberto Rossi" <urossi@programatic.it>]

> What you are saying, of course, is that the Soviet Union had some areas of
> high technological development while most areas of society were primitive,
> even pre-industrial.  Those few foreigners who had a chance to fight
> alongside the Soviets were appalled by their living conditions. Pilots
> living in shacks ran out on the field to jump into fighter planes. 
> Perhaps EJ saw something like that.  Do the CAUCASIAN SKETCHES state
> anything specific?

Probebly in Adzerbaijan and Georgia things were just like that.  Those areas are 
almost primitive even now.  I wonder if someone saw that wonderful Russian film 
about two Russian soldiers kidnapped by Chechenian rebels.  I cannot remember 
its title, though...  Caucasus looked much like Afghanistan.

Umberto Rossi

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