Stephanie -- the broader context is the rise of proto- to openly-fascist Christian nationalism across all of Europe including/as well as across Russia -- and in any event, Russia would of course have had to have gone through a bunch of other territory first ( http://www.google.com/maps/place/Europe/ )
Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
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