On Aug 2, 10:39*pm, ppp1 wrote:
On 2 elo, 21:50, andy wrote:


Whatever the issues with this event, and it's true there are some,
don't be tempted to fit the subject into some sort of cliched
political character assassination based on notions which aren't valid
any more. There are plenty of people in eastern Europe with initiative
and able to think much more clearly than this grade of over-
simplistic *and patronising ********.

[...] Don't take
things out of the contex, word "east" is not ment (and won't) to be
used as political word, just to highlight a region. [snip]

just cut down on the duplicitous and evasive excuses, please

you consciously used the phrase east block, and apparently meant it as
such, implying an opinion that poor organisation must be endemic in
these areas