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Scratch a Russian and you’ll find a ……?

vassar / March 6, 2022

(Footnoted, 3/10) Rudyard Kipling once wrote:                 “I had six honest serving men who taught me all I know. They were, Who, What, Where, When, Why and How” This simple life-rule has been virtually absent in news presentation for the…

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American Exceptionalism, Famous Commn People, How Things Work, Race and Culture, Religion, Russia

The Parable of the Grannies

vassar / November 12, 2020

As I’ve mentioned in other contexts, I spent a lot of time in the USSR before it fell, and then both Russia and Ukraine, as well as the Soviet Empire, after it fell, from 1991- through- 2008. Each of those…

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Dark Alley, History, Russia, Socialism

Making Mock of Communism; How East Europeans Would Respond to Antifa

vassar / August 22, 2020

Every country of the Soviet East European bloc hated Russians. And every one of them, with the possible exception of East Germany, hated the Communists. Within the old Soviet bloc; the Balkans, Bulgaria and much of the former Yugoslavia, Poland,…

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