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(1,780 posts)
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 01:46 PM Feb 2017

A minor point, but I can't figure out how this could be true:


'The letters USSR in Cyrillic look like the American letters “CWA."'

(She's claiming that the hacker group "Crackas With Attitude" is a Russian front.)

The Cyrillic for "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" is CCCP. The English "USSR" would look something like "YCCP" in Cyrillic.

In any case, there might be something here, but be aware that Louise Mensch has a history of being dotty at best. (She's also a Tory, whatever her current status is vis-a-vis the Guardian.)

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