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Old February 20, 2008   #8
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Originally Posted by Andrey_BY View Post
Carolyn,
the wrong word for me here is "occupation", of course.

Vietnam were and Afganistan and Irak are occupated indeed. Serbia (in its Kosovo region) are still occupated by NATO forces (there is an Army base there). But that was military consultation in Ethiopia or Angola for Soviets as well as for American military specialists almost all around the world...

OK, outside political issues that is the same old question about Crimea (now Ukraine, former Russian area for ages) as an area of origin of many black tomato varieties... Still can't believe in that, because there is no such info circulated inside former Soviet Union countries (CIS now)...
Andrey, I apologize if again I've used what to you is a wrong word.

All I know is that whatever the interaction was with the Soviets as consultants, the word you used, it led to many Ethiopians leaving their country and seeking asylum elsewhere, and that included Tadesse, his Uncle and two sisters who were given asylum in the US.His parents and some other relatives remained in Addas Abbaba.

As for the true origin of Black Ethiopian all I know is that it was listed in the SSE Yearbook as coming from the Ukraine by the person who first listed it. Why it was named with the word Ethiopian in the variety name can have several interpretations and I've given one interpretation, not unique to me, that has been given.
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