Re: New ISO country codes

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From: Oleg Kiselev
Date: Wed, 06 May 1992 09:19

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qasama@newton.WPI.EDU (John Steven Grossi) writes:
>untill the fall of the second Polish Republic Ruthenia was a recognized place
>and the ruthenes were a recognized people. I suspect that they became White
>Russians so Stalin could jusitfy annexing them.

Belorus' was called that at least a century before Stalin.  
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Subject: Re: New ISO country codes
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