I guess I got it figured out that you were talking about the Russia thread, PFR. I didn't close the thread and I rarely do, but that one has been looking ripe for closure for a number of days. Once a thread gets taken over by a small group, nobody else feels welcome there.
If we have too many threads like that, nobody feels welcome here at all. So, there has to be some sort of balance.
There's a moderator note at the end of the thread that says that the thread originator asked that it be closed. Don't know why the last three messages were deleted.
-Joe-