SCENE: Mitch Berg is dumping flashings from pick up truck at the county yard waste site. Bill Gunkel, former Republican who is now chairmain of the Inver Grove Heights chapter of \u201cFormer Republicans for Ron Paul\u201d, pulls up next to him, towing a trailer full of leaves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
GUNKEL Merg!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BERG: Hey..<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GUNKEL: Shut up. You eternal war people have really stepped in it with Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BERG: Not sure I’ve actually stated an opinion about…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GUNKEL: You know that the Ukrainians are Nazis, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BERG: There are some peolple who identify as Nazis, that’s true. In a country of forty million people that was brutalized by the Commuists within living memory, you’re going to find people who equate “Nazi” with “anti-communist”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
GUNKEL: So you’re OK sending money to Nazis?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BERG: Not sure that I said anything of the sort…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GUNKEL: You’re OK supporting Nazis, at all?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BERG: Let’s accept the fact there is a small minority of Nazi symps in Ukrainian society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
GUNKEL: OK…?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BERG: How do you suppose it compares with the number of Stalinists in Russian society?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GUNKEL: Who?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BERG. Stalinists. Symps of Josef Stalin, most murderous dictator in European history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
GUNKEL: Never heard of him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
BERG: Huh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
GUNKEL: But was he a Nazi?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BERG: Uh…no…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GUNKEL: So – Ukraine, Nazis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
BERG: Right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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