George Soros: a leftists operative?
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George Soros promotes leftist political and economic agenda thru his
many funatins, this article fro the Forbes magazine claims.
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Forbes
7Apr97
A near decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union, much of Central
and Eastern Europe is still ruled by the old gang. Guess who's helping
keep them in power?
Beware of billionaires bearing gifts
By Richard C. Morais
IF YOU'VE DIMLY wondered what is happening in Albania, we can, in a
brief sentence, explain: George Soros' friends are coming out on top.
Late in February, armed gangs led by gangsters and ex-Communists, many
of them veterans of the old secret police state, all but toppled an
elected liberal government, and forced the president to appoint a
neo-Communist as prime minister. While this was happening, George Soros
sat in his London town house and calmly told Forbes that his Albanian
Foundation is "an excellent group very much on top of the situation."
On top is right: Soros has kept afloat a newspaper, Koha Jone, that
egged on the coupists with inflammatory antigovernment propaganda. A
pyramid scheme had collapsed, costing many people their savings, and the
Soros-supported paper effectively made a call to arms. A top official of
the Soros foundation in Tirana boasted to stunned observers:
"[President] Berisha's going. We got him."
In an age-old tradition of European political patronage, this
multibillionaire speculator routinely taps his billions to fund
journals, politicians and educators in Europe and elsewhere. More often
than not, these have an exclusively left-wing bias.
Soros, 67, is Hungarian-born but a U.S. citizen. He recently caused a
flutter in the February issue of the Atlantic Monthly by penning a windy
attack on free market capitalism.
Why is George Soros so cozy with people and causes that might be
expected to view his kind as parasites?
To understand his charitable works Forbes visited the Soros Foundation-
Hungary's cream-colored villa in the hills of Budapest. Hungary is not
only Soros' native land but where his charities have the longest
history. There we met Miklos Vasarhelyi, the 80-year-old president of
the Soros-funded foundation. This man, who dispenses millions of dollars
a year in a rather poor country, has an interesting past. Vasarhelyi was
press officer to Imre Nagy, the Communist Prime Minister executed in
1958 for being too independent. Vasarhelyi stood trial along with Nagy
after Soviet tanks crushed the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Nagy and most
others were hanged or sentenced to life. Vasarhelyi got just five years,
the lightest punishment of the pack.
Thanks to George Soros, this former Communist has risen again. A
political party he helped found is apartner in the present government.
That government is a coalition of ex-Communists (now the Hungarian
Socialist Party) and a left-liberal group, the Alliance of Free
Democrats, a coalition that came to power in 1994 after defeating a
rather ineffectual moderate government. Soros blessed the election
results.
"These are strong, serious-minded people," he publicly said of the
victorious ex-Communists. "I have great expectations in general." Not
everyone agreed. One prominent foreign businessman who first considered,
then rejected, doing business in Hungary, described the current
government as a "bunch of clowns who haven't a clue as to how to run an
economy."
Soros has since banged heads with Socialist Prime Minister Gyula Horn,
but remains close to his coalition partner, the Alliance of Free
Democrats. He provides many AFD leaders with income. Besides Vasarhelyi,
for example, Soros' Hungarian lawyer, Alajos Dornbach, is a top-ranked
AFD official and a legal adviser to the foundation.
Soros is the great philanthropist of our age—or so his press constantly
remind us. Every year, according to his flacks, he gives away more than
$300 million through a network of 1,000 employees in 30 countries. When
Russian scientists were starving he gave each a year's salary; he
brought fresh water to besieged Bosnians; he's providing kindergartens
for Gypsies. Good deeds, all.
But there is another side to the giving, a rather nutty political side.
The 50 offices maintained by Soros money are spread from Haiti to
Mongolia, and all claim that their works are based on philosopher Sir
Karl Popper's views of tolerant, open societies. Thus a common name:
Open Society Institute.
Behind the nuttiness, there is a consistency. "The people Soros hires,"
says Mark Almond, a respected Oxford University lecturer, "are noted for
their anti-Thatcherite views. You'll be hard-pressed to find a
religious dissident or staunch anti-Communist in his foundations."
Johnathan Sunley, the Budapest-based director of The Windsor Group, puts
it even more strongly: "Soros is engaged in a one-dimensional
ideological laundering of the old Communist/nomenklatura at the expense
of those who didn't get trips abroad." Sunley means, of course, that
real anti-Communists couldn't travel abroad in Communist days; only
those in official favor could. Soros has adopted many of these formerly
pampered, generally moderate Marxists.
"Soros," says Peter Bod, a former cabinet minister and central bank
governor in Hungary, "is the most influential nonelected politician east
of the Alps." His power stems not from the ballot box but from his bank
account. He wants to see that the old left-wing dictatorships are
replaced—not with free market democracies, but with left-wing
democracies.
"Yes," the prickly billionaire conceded in an interview with Forbes,
"clearly there is a political bias in the[Soros] foundation."
Look at the trustees of his U.S. foundation and you will see where the
bias lies. One of them is the notorious Lani Guinier, the law professor
Bill Clinton tried to nominate as head of the civil rights division of
the Justice Department. Once her intemperate brand of politics was
examined—such as minority veto power over legislation—even Clinton
backed away from her and withdrew his support.
"Yes," says the prickly
billionaire. "Clearly
there is a political bias
in the [Soros]
foundation."
President of the Open Society Institute in the U.S. is Aryeh Neier, a
human rights advocate who often embraces extreme liberal positions.
So be careful when you apply the term "philanthropy" to Soros' spending.
Not all his causes are political, but he's clearly a would-be social
engineer. You wouldn't get far in a U.S. election running on a
Soros-style platform, but you might feel quite at home in a lot of U.S.
universities.
But back to Hungary. Soros has been working in his native Hungary for
the past 13 years. In the early 1980s he was quietly supporting
dissidents in Central and Eastern Europe. It was then that the mercurial
Vasarhelyi showed up at Columbia University in New York, where he met
Soros. The ex-Communist hack seems to have had a considerable influence
on the billionaire. With Vasarhelyi's help Soros made a deal in 1984
with the then-government. The first Soros Hungarian foundation had a
budget of $3 million and was jointly run by Soros and the Communists.
"One of Soros' conditions was that I should be his personal
representative," says Vasarhelyi. "He had excellent judgment," says
Soros, "and a good understanding of what was possible and what wasn't."
Interesting guy. Vasarhelyi's understanding of what is possible has
undergone a number of changes. In 1936 and 1937 he studied political
science in Rome because he thought "Italian Fascism showed the way out
of an unjust society." He secretly joined the Hungarian Communist Party
in 1939 and officially became a member of the Social Democratic Party.
"[The Communist Party] instructed [me] to join the Social Democratic
Party," he wrote in his 1989 autobiography, "to try and get ahold of key
positions, but to continue following the leadership of the Communist
Party."
By the late 1940s the Communists ruled Hungary and Vasarhelyi became a
top-ranked "journalist" spouting pure Communist propaganda. Then he
turned his coat again. By the mid-1950s, he had joined the ranks of
"goulash" Communists disenchanted by Stalinism, but still in love with
Karl Marx. After serving his relatively mild prison term, Vasarhelyi
eventually got a job at a literature academy, was given a passport and
allowed to travel. The dissidents we talked to said dissidents normally
didn't get such perks. Says OSI's Neier: "We always regarded him as
strongly committed to the Open Society principles, and he is held in
high regard."
Everyone likes Vasarhelyi. References to him are to be found in recently
released internal records of Communist Party meetings about a 1989
political demonstration. Vasarhelyi and others negotiated with the
government on behalf of the dissidents. According to the records: "it is
worth talking to...Vasarhelyi on whom we have influence" and "if the
[speeches] get into Vasarhelyi's hands we would be able to get ahold of
them." Vasarhelyi strenuously denies collaborating with the Communists.
Maybe that was wishful thinking, but it's a revealing comment
nonetheless. Vasarhelyi of course no longer calls himself a Communist
but neither is he a big believer in free markets. "I was and always am
very critical of capitalism," Vasarhelyi tells Forbes.
Give Soros credit. His money does do considerable good. Between 1984 and
1989 he and Vasarhelyi helped undermine the Communist Party's control of
information by trading photocopying machines to cultural and educational
institutes for Hungarian currency; the currency was then used to give
grants to dissidents and to writers of all political stripes.
But along the way Soros seems to have developed delusions of grandeur.
He wasn't satisfied with helping end Communist totalitarianism. He
wanted to decide what kind of government would replace it. In 1990 a new
center-right coalition government was voted into power in Hungary which
killed the Soros-government agreement. That's when the foundation began
its partisan support.
Vasarhelyi denies that there is any political bias in his foundation.
The Soros Foundation, for example, gives to the youth clubs and pays for
Gypsy dance troupes (the Gypsies are a repressed minority in Europe).
Gabor Ivanyi is a former AFD member of parliament,and a Methodist
minister who runs homeless shelters in Budapest. Last year Soros
Foundation Hungary gave Ivanyi $38,000 for mattresses, an ambulance to
pick up homeless who were freezing on the streets and for TB treatments.
Ivanyi is a genuine man of goodwill.
But study the foundation's 1980s modus operandi and you'll see it always
mixed applauded works with politically motivated projects. With
Vasarhelyi's AFD pals in power again, we found the relationship with
certain sectors of government very cozy. The AFD-controlled culture
ministry and the Soros foundation, for example, both subsidize
periodicals. We matched the most recently published lists of subsidies
and found 77% of the periodicals that got major government handouts also
received subsidies from the Soros foundation. It seems to us a
foundation dedicated to an Open Society would go out of its way to
assist periodicals not supported by the government of the day.
How reformed are Soros' ex-Communists? Not very. A few years back,
Gyorgy Litvan, a Soros friend of longstanding, a former adviser to the
foundation's board and director of an institute given Soros' grants,
attacked historian Maria Schmidt. She had uncovered secret police files
indirectly confirming that Alger Hiss had been a Soviet spy. Her work
was widely published in the U.S. and led to a Reader's Digest article in
Hungary. Then she bumped into Litvan. Schmidt says Litvan lambasted
her for her "mentality," and said he would do everything he could to
stop her working as an academic in Hungary.
Litvan tells Forbes he never said such a thing, but admits he used his
power to block her from making a documentary on the secret police. "I
dislike her," he says. "She is on the far right." This Soros friend has
an interesting idea of what constitutes "far right." It seems to be
anyone to the right of Alger Hiss.
Interviewing him in London, Forbes asked Soros why he supports turncoats
like Litvan and Vasarhelyi. His reply was—shall we say—a bit confusing.
"They [as ex-Communists] know better what democracy is than perhaps
those who were always opposed to [the regime]." What an insult to those
true democrats who paid, sometimes with their lives, for their beliefs.
That's outrageous, typical Soros gobbledygook. Exactly what does he
believe in? A utopian vision of a sort of borderless, multicultural
world, where people respect one another and the well-to-do take care of
the less-well-off. But Soros' friend Byron Wien, managing director of
Morgan Stanley International, comes closer to the truth when he says:
"Soros is terrified of right-wing nationalism."
A press officer told us
over a five-star buffet
we should see what
Soros "means to the
little people."
Understandable perhaps in a man who spent his boyhood watching Nazis and
their Hungarian supporters at work. In testimony to the U.S. Congress in
1994,Soros insisted that Eastern Europe's ex-Communists "want to get
away from Communism as far as possible. Their reemergence constitutes a
welcome extension of the democratic spectrum." Soros went on: "The real
danger is the emergence of would-be nationalist dictatorships. They are
playing in a field definitely tilted in their favor."
Thus, for Soros, a rosy glow seems to surround the left, while
conservatism seems, to him, a stand-in for Nazism. That may seem
relatively benign when expounded in American universities. It is pure
poison in Eastern and Central Europe, which badly need to develop their
free markets.
Soros annually pumps some $60 million into outfits in Hungary, among
them his Central European University, whose goal is to educate an
"administrative elite." Here students can not only bone up on
macroeconomics but also on such American imports as feminist literary
theory and how the media "constructs gender and sexuality, whether
heterosexual or homosexual."
We found Soros' "cultural elite" unbelievably arrogant. A chirpy Open
Society Institute press officer told us over a five-star Kempinski
Hotel breakfast that she wanted Forbes to see what Soros "means to the
little people."
Vaclav Klaus, the Czech Republic's prime minister and a tireless
advocate of free markets, has a good notion of what Soros' ideas mean to
"the little people." Klaus, in effect, kicked Central European
University out of Prague. The no-nonsense Klaus wasn't afraid of Soros'
ideas. He just didn't want Soros money buying up Czech intellectuals.
Soros returned the insult: "Klaus embodies the worst of the Western
democracies." Maybe, but the Czech Republic is easily the most
prosperous, modern economy in Central or Eastern Europe.
Say this for Soros: He knows his way around the law. His country
foundations are usually local legal entities but often receive funds,
says his New York press officer, from the New York-domiciled
foundations. That's very interesting.
According to the IRS tax code, to enjoy tax-exempt status a private
foundation cannot "intervene, directly or indirectly, in any political
campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public
office...."
You can dismiss George Soros as a kooky rich man who uses his money to
collect politicians and intellectuals the way some rich people collect
castles and old masters. And in a way he is ridiculous, flying about the
world, holding press conferences and writing books and articles that
nobody can understand.
On the other hand, money can do a lot of harm in politics, especially in
poor, small countries.
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Instability
IN BUDAPEST in 1944 George Soros lived a double life. His father, a
lawyer and editor of a journal in Esperanto (a now almost forgotten
effort to develop a common language for the world), forged official
papers to disguise the family's Jewish heritage. The papers saved the
family, and during the Nazi occupation, when German and Hungarian
fascist allies rounded up 300,000 Jews, young Soros posed as the
Christian godson of a Hungarian government official. The 14-year-old
George Soros sometimes found himself accompanying his supposed
godfather as he seized the property of Jewish families bound for
slaughter.
Heroic? No, but how many heroes are there when survival is the issue and
resistance futile? It's typical of Soros that he purports to remember
that time not as a terrifying ordeal but as an adventure. "The happiest
year of my life," he calls it.
Read George Soros' frank personal statements and meet the billionaire in
his elegant but slightly tatty London home—light switches falling out of
the wall, piles of laundry on the bathroom floor—and you can't help but
rather like the man. Yet sometimes the openness seems a bit phony.
Example: After George Soros challenged Europe's Exchange Rate Mechanism
in 1992, becoming the "man who broke the Bank of England" and probably
the first person to make $1 billion in a month, he lectured: "It
behooves the authorities to design a system that does not reward
speculators." Yeah, I did it, but you shouldn't have let me. It's the
system.So he's a capitalist but hedges his bets by supporting socialist
causes.
The key to understanding George Soros is that he skirts, by his own
admission, a kind of lunacy. It's both his strong point and his weak
point. "Next to my fantasies about being God," Soros told British
television, "I also have very strong fantasies of being mad. In fact, my
grandfather was actually paranoid. I have a lot of madness in my
family. So far I have escaped it."
Just.
One bout of instability came in the early 1980s. His fund was doing
extremely well when he walked away from his partner, first wife and
family. It was a "very intense emotional process to correct errors [in
the financial markets]," he explains. "The psychic cost of running the
fund was very high. The more successful I was, the more I was punished
by having more money to run."
During this turmoil Soros walked through the City of London and was
convinced—wrongly—that he was having a heart attack. "It made me
realize that maybe it wasn't worth it. To have a heart attack and be
knocked out is really losing the game."
He spent a few years devoting himself to his intellectual and charitable
interests, remarried and eventually pulled off his greatest financial
coup by betting against the British pound.
Unable to resist pondering his navel, eager to dazzle with his
erudition, Soros has produced several books, all impenetrable to the
point where some people think he is pulling their leg. His recently
published Atlantic Monthly article, "The Capitalist Threat," is a
collection of pretentious and incomprehensible musings about capitalism,
the implication being that, though he didn't mention them by name,
Reagan and Thatcher were bad guys. "The article was misunderstood," he
says. "I was not attacking the capitalist system. I was attacking the
excesses of the capitalist system."
Oh.
When he went through his personal crisis in the early 1980s, he says he
felt he was acting out the conflict between his parents. We couldn't
resist asking: Are you projecting onto capitalism and the financial
markets your own personal anxieties?
"Maybe so," he answered. "The insecurity I feel actually corresponds to
the conditions in the market better than the equilibrium that the
professors of economics deal with."
Looking into himself, Soros sees the world. Looking at the world, he
sees—George Soros. Madness is close to genius.
–R.C.M.
DedaEna
Your_us...@osu.edu wrote:
>
> George Soros promotes leftist political and economic agenda thru his
> many funatins, this article fro the Forbes magazine claims.
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Besarion,
The article on Soros says that because of his Jewish background and
the experience during the Nazi period, he is motivated to promote
libelal ideas in the East European nations. (That's what Forbes
doesn't like, as one would expect)
If you read carefully most of his activities decribed at least in this
article are cultural-political not economic.
It didn't say he helps these people penetrate the rest of the world.
If anything it is the East Europeans that are being influenced.
Besides, George Soros has the same right as anybody else to promote his
ideas and worldview. It's just that he has more money and thus opportunity
to do so successfuly. You can choose to subscribe to his agenda or not.
Levan
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DedaEna
Your_us...@osu.edu wrote:
> George Soros promotes leftist political
> and economic agenda thru his
> many funatins, this article fro
> the Forbes magazine claims.
> _______________________________________________________
>
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Subject: Re: TRANSNATIONAL NOMENKLATURIST
CORPORATISM
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Date: 1997/03/15
Newsgroups: soc.culture.rep-of-georgia
From the SOVIET ANALYST [Volume 22,
Number 3, pages 4-12, July 1993]
[Lot of what smaks of hogwash deleted]
GEORGIA POINTS THE WAY
Georgia's experiences provide a window
on what has been happening
throughout the so-called 'former USSR.
They reveal what Western
analysts and opinion seems reluctant to
recognise - inter alia that:
The 'market' economy said to be
'emerging,' in the region is
impregnated from the outset with
corruption, and infected by
monopolistic arrangements fixed
up by the transnational
nomenklaturist network.
Western interests are collaborating
intensively with the new
'ex'-Soviet 'market' super-empire -
which has now, for the first
time in history, penetrated the
financial citadels of the West,
through the recycling of nomenklaturist
hard currency to and
through the Western banks, of which
the 'ex'-Soviet elite have
become customers.
So: do CPSU dollars influence policy
making and the taking of strategic
decisions?
And does all this not mean that the
Evil Empire is not only not dead or
weakened, but to the contrary - that
it has turned itself round and gained
a new lease of life? /end quote/
Wasn't it the Indonesians and Chinese
that sipped $10,000 coffes
at the White House and slept in
the Lincoln bedroom dreaming how they
would influence the US foreign policy?
Who the heck even knows about
Georgia?
The furthest sovet nomenclatura has
gone in penetrating western
financial citadels is to pour
bilions there buying property and stashing
money in western banks. All that
besides going hogwild with
conspicous consumption of consumer
goods which is truely stunning and
obscene.
And Besarion don't you think that
such a rabbid attention to
Georgia by the Soviet Analyst
is a bit too strange?
The Analyst is printed on a pink paper
but its true color maybe yellow.
Levan
Kverenck...@osu.edu
IKho...@abaceeli.org
Hi Levan,
I've read that article on Soros, and as a person directly "influenced" by
his ideology - as a graduate of the Central European University in
Budapest - I have few things to say.
The article greatly diminishes the value of Soros's contribution in the
CEE/FSU countries by merely saying that he imposes ideology on the people
without giving them anything in exchange. The CEU and Open Society
Foundation do lots of good things. In 1995 there were roughly 250
students doing their LL.M.s, and MAs in Pol. Science, Medieval Studies
and History. This year there are some 20 Georgians in Budapest, and about
350 other East Europeans. On Legal Studies Dept. we had professors from
such universities as Oxford, Llewen, Chicago Law School, Collumbia, NYU,
etc. We had great library and computer resources that most of the good US
law schools lack. There was a great opportunity to meet many world's
prominent lawyers, politicians, etc. The foundation paid students'
tuition and living expenses. Who else does programs like this for the
CEE/FSU folks? Of course there is a bias in his activity. But I really
don't care because I got what I wanted. Part of the reason for this
negative article is that many Magyars, or other CEE fear that Soros came
back to retaliate for the hate he felt as a Jew before he fled to the
West.
Yonapotkivanok (in Magyar "have a nice day"),
Iva
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> The article greatly diminishes the value of Soros's contribution in the
> CEE/FSU countries by merely saying that he imposes ideology on the people
> without giving them anything in exchange.
Iva,
Forbes' blood curdles at the thought of what Soros gives these poeple
but that is the question of ideology and political views. I agree that
most who benefit from his programs won't turn into bleeding heart liberals
and they certainly won't start washing gypsy feet :-)
Related to Georgia, I wonder why did he discontinue suport of Georgian press:
[Quote
Soros Will Give Georgian Newspapers No Money
Account of George Soros' visit to Georgia. He arrived in Tbilisi on October
20 to meet the Georgian leadership and inspect the activities of the Open
Society - Georgia Foundation (OSGF), Tbilisi branch of the Soros
Foundation.
At a press-conference the next day, some of the Georgian journalists,
representatives of the newspapers that had failed to receive grants from
the OSGF, complained about 'improper' grant awarding procedures. 'Taking
into account your remarks, we will no longer finance the mass media
directly', he replied. From now on, the OSGF will allocate grants mainly
to training programs for journalists.
"Akhali Taoba" No. 171, October 22, pp. 1, 2
http://www.geuniverse.com/org/cipdd/digest/october.htm
October 22, 1996, Tuesday
[end quote]
Did he not like ideologcal bent of some of them.
As a private individual, he can give and take as he wants, of course.
I just wonder if the same leftist bias was not shown in the Georgia
case.
Regards
Levan
IKho...@abaceeli.org
Levan,
I don't think Soros has ever been a leftist. He is a cool, rational,
pragmatic and certainly prominent businessman and nothing else. I don't
believe that a man who spent most of his life buying and selling currency
can be a leftist or rightist.
As to his work in Georgia, I think he discontinued support of the press
there because 1) the press is relatively free and it's not rational to
spend much money on it anymore; 2) this work requires lot of discretion
from OSGF, who by blessing of their chairman, Nino Chinchaladze, often
abuse it. The article you cite says it vaguely:
> At a press-conference the next day, some of the Georgian journalists,
> representatives of the newspapers that had failed to receive grants from
> the OSGF, complained about 'improper' grant awarding procedures. 'Taking
> into account your remarks, we will no longer finance the mass media
> directly', he replied. From now on, the OSGF will allocate grants mainly
> to training programs for journalists.
Iva
In article Your_us...@osu.edu wrote:
> Iva,
>
> Forbes' blood curdles at the thought of what Soros gives these poeple
> but that is the question of ideology and political views. I agree that
> most who benefit from his programs won't turn into bleeding heart liberals
> and they certainly won't start washing gypsy feet :-)
Yes, I agree.
> Related to Georgia, I wonder why did he discontinue suport of Georgian press:
>
> [Quote
> Soros Will Give Georgian Newspapers No Money
>
> Account of George Soros' visit to Georgia. He arrived in Tbilisi on October
> 20 to meet the Georgian leadership and inspect the activities of the Open
> Society - Georgia Foundation (OSGF), Tbilisi branch of the Soros
> Foundation.
> At a press-conference the next day, some of the Georgian journalists,
> representatives of the newspapers that had failed to receive grants from
> the OSGF, complained about 'improper' grant awarding procedures. 'Taking
> into account your remarks, we will no longer finance the mass media
> directly', he replied. From now on, the OSGF will allocate grants mainly
> to training programs for journalists.
>
> "Akhali Taoba" No. 171, October 22, pp. 1, 2
> http://www.geuniverse.com/org/cipdd/digest/october.htm
> October 22, 1996, Tuesday
> [end quote]
>
> Did he not like ideologcal bent of some of them.
>
> As a private individual, he can give and take as he wants, of course.
> I just wonder if the same leftist bias was not shown in the Georgia
> case.
>
> Regards
> Levan
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DedaEna
IKho...@abaceeli.org wrote:
> Levan,
> I don't think Soros has ever been a leftist. He is a cool, rational,
ЕИСИ ЫУЫУ ВИЬНЕИА ..!
> Iva