{"id":734,"date":"2011-01-14T06:39:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T06:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/2011\/01\/14\/dr-foogooa-3\/"},"modified":"2020-04-24T20:40:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T16:40:15","slug":"dr-foogooa-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/dr-foogooa-3\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mr Reagan, I Hate You!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><u>Mind Your Language <\/u><\/span><!--more--><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>By Dr Foogooa<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Once, during the late Ronald Reagan\u2019s tenure of office as President of the USA, a group of Soviet astrophysicists attended a Congress of World Astrophysics that was held in the USA. One of the main issues on the agenda was \u201cPeaceful Space Exploration and Mutual Cooperation\u201d among all stakeholders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At the end of the Congress, which lasted five days, one leading Soviet astrophysicist defected, sought and received political asylum in the USA. For the sake of convenience, we\u2019ll call him AV Davidovski, who happened to be a Russian Jew. It is a well known fact that Jews are not only intelligent, but also shrewd and cunning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In no time at all, Mr Davidovski became the subject of attention and was often the guest of honour at many a scientific gathering throughout the USA. His Jewish brethren were particularly kind and helpful towards him. One evening, whilst he was dining with his new American friends, they were pulling his leg and cracking jokes about the Soviet Union and its rulers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A Mr T Mark asked laughingly, \u201cDavid, tell us whether you enjoyed the same freedom of speech in the USSR as you do here?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Davidovski, almost hurt in his pride, stood up and emphatically replied: \u201cOf course. For instance, anyone in the USA can go up to the President and say, \u2018Mr Reagan, I hate you!\u2019 And, the guy would be allowed to leave the place completely unharmed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mark: \u201cWell David, would you dare do the same thing in the USSR?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Davidovski: \u201cWhy not? Anytime, I could have gone up to Comrade Brehznev, the Secretary General of the Soviet Communist Party and boldly say to him, \u2018Comrade Leonid Ilitch, you know, I hate Ronald Reagan.\u2019 And, he would leave me completely unharmed!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Dr Foogooa\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>The source of this piece is unknown, but I heard from my younger brother Ranjit, to whom I am beholden<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em>* Published in print edition on 14 January 2011<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mind Your Language<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":6560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[23912,23913,23910,2918,10533,23911,1566],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-affairs","tag-av-davidovski","tag-comrade-brehznev","tag-congress-of-world-astrophysics","tag-dr-balmick-foogooa","tag-mind-your-language","tag-peaceful-space-exploration-and-mutual-cooperation","tag-ronald-reagan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MT-Logokk.jpg?fit=1200%2C880&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8QzSF-bQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}