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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: wzambon ✶❂🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: From Helsinki
Date: 02/23/25 6:45 PM
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The Babushka's, as PO'ed as they rightfully are, need not sacrifice themselves unnecessarily.

Depending on the age of the babushka (“babushka” is a Russian term. Does she live in one of the Russian areas in eastern Finland? Her words suggest so, and shows the support of many Russian speakers who live there- whom Russia would claim that they are invading to protect-the same threadbare excuse they used in Ukraine)….

Anyway, depending on her age, she may well remember, or her parents hammered into her the story of the “Winter War”, Stalin’s 1939 invasion of Finland. It was an all hands on deck affair, in which babushkas undoubtedly played a role back then as well.

As Hank Williams Jr. sang- it was a “family tradition
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