http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Sun, 9 Mar 2008 11:45:49 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/03/09/092110.php#comment-700856 To the author - a geographic note ... The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, (USSR) stretched from what are now the independent Balkan countries of Latvia and Estonia, ... Latvia and Estonia are Baltic countries, not Balkan. The USSR did not stretch to the Balkans. 700856@blogcritics.org Sun, 9 Mar 2008 11:45:49 EDT