“Armies travel on their stomach, Vandals, looters, and other bratlings travel on their appetites; drugs, alcohol, sex and vanity. Stifle those and they will stay home.”
The Russian-Ukrainian Village, Evening Bells
In the 1960s I earned a minor in Russian Studies at university which interestingly enough, provided me with a lot of background to what I would observe when I visited Ukraine and central Russia in 1991 and 1992, when the USSR was finally cashing...