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[bacardi]

Hmm I abandoned my parents and my pet to come here so I must be bad! Seriously, I agree with your comments and have had personal experience of the joy of trying to get help for elderly parents(ha, thats a laugh) and I hope that I never have to go through what they have.
Still I'll not contemplate old age just yet. There's life in the old dog yet.... Have I just called myself a dog? gee I obviously have self esteem issues.heehee.
Anyway, have to live up to my name and go meet my mates.
Good luck!

[paul]

just through in my ten pence worth...good luck to you vex8 if thats what you want to do do it ,but like you said check it all out first.i've been going to cyprus for 24 years now & only just made my mind up to go & live there plus i need to jump ship to..

[TheCabbie]

They are not pontian russians, they are drunken british solidiers from the base at akrotiri that the british army stay rent free.

Not all of them though, just the ones that speak Russian and Greek.

Lysi, it's good to see you're not a complete arsehole, some parts are obviously missing.

[TheCabbie]

Hi Lysi

That was 50 years ago! How far back in a history book do you want to go to find crimes; they raped and murdered a Swedish tourist 15 years ago! I never said the British were perfect!

From thousands of miles away, you are telling a witness to an event that they did not see what they saw and that you know better!

Lana

Actually Svetlana, the 3 squaddies murdered a Danish tour guide in Sept 1994, but you're probably thinking of the year before when 2 Cypriot animals murdered a Swedish mother of 2 who they had taken to a remote spot, stripped, tortured, sodomised and raped for 10 hours, they also did the same to a Ukranian girl and dumped the bodies on Kotsiatis rubbish dump.


OOOPs...Sorry I forgot, nobody likes to talk about that....Do they?

[TheCabbie]

I do really know the Brits invented Concentration Camps in the Boer War, its just that Russians do it so much better!>

Svetlana, sorry to correct you again.... But

Modern concentration camps appeared at the end of the 19th century. The Spanish used them in Cuba during the Spanish-American War (1898)

Which was before the Boer war started!

Of course, the Russians easily beat the both the Germans and the British (who only managed to put 20,000 into the South African camps), they did it bigger and for longer...

In Russia the Bolsheviks established labour camps for suspected counter-revolutionaries in 1918. During the 1920s, “class enemies” and criminals were confined in the Northern Special Purpose Camps on the Solovetskiye Islands in the White Sea and near Archangel on the mainland. In the 1930s and 1940s, a system of corrective labour camps covered most of the Soviet Union and received millions of prisoners in successive waves of mass arrests. These prisoners included independent farmers (kulaks), victims of the great purges, populations deported from the Polish and Baltic territories annexed in 1939, groups such as the Volga Germans considered potentially disloyal during World War II, prisoners of war, and Russians returning from German captivity. After the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, when many inmates received amnesty and were released, the camps continued on a smaller scale.

In 1919 the Russian secret police, then known as the Cheka (forerunner of the KGB), was empowered to arrest “class enemies”. Commitment to a camp usually followed a hearing by the Judicial Collegium of the secret police, using elastic paragraphs of the criminal code to sentence defendants who had the right neither to be present nor to defend themselves. During the 1920s the camps were administered by various agencies, including the People’s Commissariat of Justice. In 1930 control over all camps was assumed by the Chief Administration of Camps (Glavnoye uptavlenie lagetov, or GULAG) in the People’s Commissariat of the Interior (Narodny kommissariat vnutrennikh dyel, or NKVD).

An estimated 15 million camp inmates worked as forced labourers on numerous projects essential to the Soviet economy. Some of these, such as the White Sea-Baltic Canal and the Moscow-Volga Canal, claimed innumerable lives. Other projects—such as the coal mines and oil wells near Vorkuta and the gold mines on the Kolyma River—exploited the mineral wealth of the Soviet Arctic. Eventually, five major camp systems evolved: (1) the Yagry near Arkhangel’sk; (2) the Pechora, including Kotlas and Vorkuta; (3) the Karaganda in Kazakhstan; (4) the Tayshet-Komsomolsk (now Komsomolsk) in the Lake Baikal-Amur River region; and (5) the Dalstroy in the Magadan-Kolyma region.

[dms007]

The only thing I dont like about the russians is that they do not want to admit their mistakes.
they dont even want to know that they are wrong...
i talk to a lot of russians and in their bigoted heads, everyone who is not a russian is wrong when they have something to say about russia.
they never want to be told that russians were wrong!

[Svetlana]

Hi dms

If you see see four slightly overweight men with very bad fitting suits and slight bad breath, getting out of a black Zil, my advice is: dont answer the door!

Lana

[dms007]

so that finally explains the presence of russian mafia here in cyprus

[Mikros]

Nope because there are no Zils in Cyprus!

[VEX8]

You got any Skodas?? They might just be second rate hoods not mafia.