"Andre Jute" wrote in message
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Timoshenko was an educated Ukrainian of Victorian times. He would not
have spoken with the strangled peasant accent later popularized by
Kremlin-dwelling Ukrainian scum like Kruschev. So the likelihood is
that he would have pronounced his name tea-moe-shank-ko, not
tim-mo-shenko. So I prefer Timo to Timmy, though I surely admire your
familiarity with the great man.
[1]

Andre Jute
Impedance is futile, you will be simulated into the triode of the Borg.
-- Robert Casey


The troll Jute has "advanced" his arguments by pedantic nit-picking in
recent threads.

I'll enter into the spirit of the game by pointing out the following facts:-

(1) The surname of the late former First Secretary of the CPSU cannot be
rendered as "Kruschev" under any recognised system of transliteration from
the Cyrillic.

(2) The late Soviet Premier was born to Russian peasant parents of Kalinovka
in the old Kursk Guberniya of Tsarist Russia. This adminstrative region was
not then and has never been within the borders of Ukraine. Nikita Khrushchev
(or Khrushchyov) began his working career in the present-day city of Donetsk
after moving there as a teenager and had much to do with the forced
collectivization of the Ukrainian SSR under Stalin but was not Ukrainian by
birth.

That's two errors by Jute in one sentence. What a contrast to the rigorous
standards he attempts to force on others!

Trolls are boringly predictable because they can never ever admit to error.
Therefore I will outline the possible directions that Jute will jump now.

(1) Ignore this post. Pretend he didn't see it or that he has me killfiled.

(2) Thank me effusively for the information. Call me "old boy" and claim
that a gentleman of libertarian persuasion such as himself can't be bothered
knowing all the orthographic or biographical ins and outs of a dead Commie
apparatchik.

(3) Resort to ad hominem abuse. He'll call me "fartcatcher" and suggest that
I must have a serious crush on him if I monitor his every utterance so
closely.


Peter Howard

[1] I don't for one moment believe that Jute has any familiarity with
Timoshenko's work. The introduction of the mans name is probably the result
of a hasty Google search and selection of the most exotic sounding hit. We
can at least be grateful that Jute does not claim to have been taught by him
or to have corresponded with him.