11-01-2011, 01:34 AM
I've mentioned elsewhere on this forum an interesting incident that I am sure was repeated elsewhere in the world.
We were entertaining a member of government of what the US would consider an axis-of evil nation state while he was visiting Sydney. He had studied in the former USSR for many years and has been to that country many times since his student days and many of those times he would go to the Kremlin archives for research purposes. When he returned there in the late 1990's he was shocked to see the archives crawling with people who obviously did not work there. They were everywhere. He asked the archivist who they were and was told they were Americans. No one there seemed to know exactly where they were from but there much open speculation that they were not there to help with digitizing the filing system and many documents were not found where they always were and should have been found.
We were entertaining a member of government of what the US would consider an axis-of evil nation state while he was visiting Sydney. He had studied in the former USSR for many years and has been to that country many times since his student days and many of those times he would go to the Kremlin archives for research purposes. When he returned there in the late 1990's he was shocked to see the archives crawling with people who obviously did not work there. They were everywhere. He asked the archivist who they were and was told they were Americans. No one there seemed to know exactly where they were from but there much open speculation that they were not there to help with digitizing the filing system and many documents were not found where they always were and should have been found.
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.