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While your "pissed-off"-ness may be overstated for HN, I very much appreciate your comment. Thanks. My (Jewish) great-grandmother left the USSR in the late 19

While your "pissed-off"-ness may be overstated for HN, I very much appreciate your comment. Thanks. My (Jewish) great-grandmother left the USSR in the late 1910's hidden in a hay cart at the bottom of a freight ship. I wouldn't be here today if not for that feat.

nivertech 15y ago
There wasn't USSR in 1910, it was called a Russian Empire then.
- maxbrown 15y ago
  Ah, my mistake. I believe it was pre and right around the revolution, so it was certainly the Russian Empire, not the USSR.