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maxbrown on Oct 11, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Jewish problems

While your "pissed-off"-ness may be overstated for HN, I very much appreciate your comment. Thanks.

My (Jewish) great-grandmother left the USSR in the late 1910's hidden in a hay cart at the bottom of a freight ship. I wouldn't be here today if not for that feat.

nivertech on Oct 11, 2011 [–]

There wasn't USSR in 1910, it was called a Russian Empire then.

maxbrown on Oct 11, 2011 | [–]

Ah, my mistake. I believe it was pre and right around the revolution, so it was certainly the Russian Empire, not the USSR.

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