Hi Fester,

Just carrying on a family tradition.

And long may you be free to keep your family traditions Foxy.

Hi Fester,

Thank you for your well wishes.

I shall keep up the family
traditions for as long as I live.

What Russian author - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn taught the West
was the word "gulag," and its meaning. That communism was
not the path to freedom but the way of ideological lies, slaves,
and violence.

The following link confirms that meaning:

http://pbs.org/newshour/world/putin-begins-new-six-year-term-as-president-with-now-more-power-over-russia-than-ever

My apologies. Here's the link again:

http://pbs.org/newshour/world/putin-begins-new-six-year-term-as-president-with-more-power-over-russia-than-ever

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressors,
it must be demanded by the oppressed. "
(Martin Luther King Jr.).

Thanks everyone for your comments. For me this discussion
has now run its course.

I look forward to the next one.

Cheers.