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Old December 30th 11, 05:58 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.europe
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Default Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System - could ithappen here...??

On Dec 30, 6:09*am, Lüko Willms wrote:
Am 29.12.2011 22:25, schrieb The Real Doctor:

On 29/12/11 21:05, Lüko Willms wrote:
The thing is that railway workers are workers, and not so easily purged
as all the professors at the university and journalists in the media.


And if there is one group who should know about purging, it's apologists
for Stalinism.[1]


* *Whatever; the purge in the ex-GDR was of a magnitude which exceeded
everything ever experienced under the rule of a stalinist burocrady.


There is something especially poisonous about Stalinists, still
attempting to minimise his crimes so long after Khrushchev's secret
speech, isn't there? Are you seriously saying that there was mass-
killings and show-trials in Germany post-unification on a scale to
dwarf the killings in 1937-8?

ian