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Re:The Appalachian Apple Hunter Who Rescued 1k ‘Lost’ Varieties by genocidicbunny on Sunday January 22, 2023 @10:47AM (#34478471)
Serendipitous seeing this mentioned here after my father very recently mentioned how much he missed the variety of pears that he could get when he went on komandirovkas to the GDR.
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Re:The Appalachian Apple Hunter Who Rescued 1k ‘Lost’ Varieties by sidewndr46 on Sunday January 22, 2023 @08:23PM (#34484306)
I don't understand "komandirovkas" in this context. Was he a Warsaw pact or Soviet intelligence agent working in the GDR? Or was he West German but traveled to East Germany for one reason or another?
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Re:The Appalachian Apple Hunter Who Rescued 1k ‘Lost’ Varieties by genocidicbunny on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @05:35AM (#34501944)
No much simpler than that. On-site work effectively, but more centrally-driven and controlled.
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