Jim wrote:
> I ran across this doing some web research:
>
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> In the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
> (encompassing one-sixth of the land surface of the
> planet), falsification of data of all kinds was a
> way of life, especially during the Stalin,
> Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras when statistics were
> routinely altered to avoid problems with the planning
> bureaucracy.
>
> Thus the accuracy of Soviet historical data is dependent
> on whether local officials found it necessary, for
> economic reasons, to overstate or understate their
> recorded temperatures. Anomalies in fuel allocations for
> transport, industry and heating under the rigid Communist
> 5-year plans amounts to a powerful incentive for
> falsifying temperature data in some Soviet communities.
>
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> Tainted data - what tainted data.
>
> I don't know of any tainted data ...
>



Was not it you, who wrote 9-July-2002 in
" Re: [OT]: Happy birthday USA":
.
> Perhaps THE WORLD would have been better off NOW
> should Hitler have come to power in all of Europe.
.
 Now you write results of "some web research",
without referencing to any resources you used.
Is this Dr. Gebbels' style of discussion usual
in the US?

 Mike.

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