Spooks in Red Re: Terrain - Chenille?

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So, is HM's Govt really going to chuck that 87 year old KGB granny in jail? (I
finally saw the news item that prompted the original KGB comments...)
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Ahx, I missed the reference, though I heard about this. Rumor has it that
she'll be forgotten with all the upcoming revelations...

By the way, the Russian for comrade ends in shcha, a diphthong that has both
the sh and ch sound. It'd be 'tovarishch'. Honest, never worked for CIA or
MKVD or... Well, there was...

The_Beast

In a message dated 9/14/99 8:43:12 PM Central Daylight Time,
devans@uneb.edu writes:

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By the way, the Russian for comrade ends in shcha, a diphthong that has both
the sh and ch sound. It'd be 'tovarishch'. Honest, never worked for CIA or
MKVD or... Well, there was...

> [quoted text omitted]

Just tried to spell it easily. Actually in their alphabet it ends in a single
letter that looks like a flat-bottomed "w" with a tail on the right
which stands for the sound "shch" like ending in "fresh cheese". Unfortunately
I do
not have cyrillic on my keyboard - it would look bad if the FBI
confiscated my computer. And "once upon a time... "