From: Tony Williams 

Phil Payne wrote:
> "Tony Williams"  wrote in message
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>
>>Phil Payne wrote:
>>
>>>I never thought I'd see this - a Chinese web site criticising the USA's
>>>human rights record.
>>
>>Did you ever listen to Radio Moscow in the '70s?
>
>
> In the late 60s.  Woman with a high nasal voice banging on about the
> position of negroes in US society.

That's a bit before I found the station, but the same idea. They managed to
make the USA sound as if it was a hell-hole permamently on the verge of
economic and political collapse. Not that Voice of America was much
different - it was fun to compare the two perspectives on world affairs.

> Years later I flew on Aeroflot from Dacca to Moscow.  The Russians operated
> a colour segregation policy - whites in the front of the aircraft,
> non-whites in the back.

Propaganda and hypocrisy aside, I wonder which is the safest part of a bus
or plane in the event of an accident?

--
Tony

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