Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy Date: 12 Nov 2024 02:59:02 GMT Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <7c5edef0-d4ec-a8fc-3f70-8ffa2a2b1df0@example.net> <2132040480.752628420.877076.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <4974b722-5ebd-8006-d604-059d844ad410@example.net> <20241110125107.6ca2c85e656c4ebea0ba971c@127.0.0.1> <1127207714.752959432.540727.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <1cfe7d69-6e8f-b6a0-5a68-7a27be881df4@example.net> <531dc571-0cf6-a548-127a-fa1a74b1c2b7@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net FzjHt/6arqFy7dPbJmDKTgNw9D67ZRQM/MG0zHocHmCA9D9Gmp Cancel-Lock: sha1:T0p3vixyzTmlrxevBbgFiAZFNJA= sha256:LFihsn87pi/OgOwCBOwE0DWWgclkPM6COCGlSdk07iM= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Bytes: 3337 On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 21:48:03 +0100, D wrote: > True. That reminds me of a finnish army guy who first fought the > russians in the finnish army, then joined the nazis, and fought russians > together with them, then joined the US and fought in the Vietnam war. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauri_T%C3%B6rni#Career That's quite a biography. I didn't know about him although I did knew about Simo Häyhä. He was severely wounded during the Winter War and sat out the Continuation War. I doubt he would have had a problem trading his Mosin Nagant for a Karabiner 98k. Häyhä preferred iron sights since scopes would fog up but I mounted a scope on my 91/30 and it works a lot better for elderly eyes. For what it's worth my wife came equipped with a Mosin Nagant M44. It kept me honest. https://www.huntinggearguy.com/rifle-reviews/mosin-nagant-m44-carbine/ The side folding bayonet is a nice touch. With the 91/30 first I have to find it, and then fix it in place. I recently read Lyudmila Pavlichenko's biography and found the rifle was referred to as a '3-line', a line being 0.10, hence .30 caliber. While she was an effective sniper her real importance was as a propagandist trying to get Roosevelt to open the second front to take the pressure off Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Lyudmila_Pavlichenko#Visits_to_Allied_countries My ex had mentioned the novel 'The Diamond Eye' by Kate Quinn. Quinn spices it up with a love story and other drama but it was interesting enough that I wanted to read it in her own words. She was born in Kiev but that was the Ukrainian SSR.