http://changelog.complete.org/archives/7253-an-incredible-story-from-soviet-times Viewpoints on technology, society, and government Tue, 14 May 2013 02:23:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://changelog.complete.org/archives/7253-an-incredible-story-from-soviet-times/comment-page-1#comment-9674 Suppa Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:01:26 +0000 http://changelog.complete.org/?p=7253#comment-9674 I don’t want to ruin the story, but most likely Ivan was a member of KGB or GRU.
Subs operations were the most “interesting” during Cold War, getting information from someone involved using comradery would have been a success.

]]> http://changelog.complete.org/archives/7253-an-incredible-story-from-soviet-times/comment-page-1#comment-9661 Damon Lynch Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:59:30 +0000 http://changelog.complete.org/?p=7253#comment-9661 That is a great story! It is infinitely better to hate a state of affairs than it is to hate people. We can hate injustice and racism for instance, but not the people who are doing it. As Gandhi said “I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.”

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