Hewitt on Europe

Ma. vrelius.
1. you mix up being not informed and being not interested, or, how to say, we don’t think that the whole world is our business.

What has relation to Russia’s past and present, be it USSR times or the Hungary or Kurils or Caucasus – this eh, “larger empire” people are very well informed about. Not only Russians but Latvians Georgians take whoever. And we still keep reading the pulse of each other, just in case.

In Perestroyka I heard many interesting things but more the details of them, nothing strategically new that I wouldn’t know anyway at home.
So it is strange you try to inform me of Khruschev boot and Prague spring. USSR rest assured knew of it not later by a minute than the West did ))) Formal media interpretatuion had nothing to do with it, people here rely on other sources. If you ever heard the expression “some words for kitchens others for streets”. If you question the speed of our “sarafan radio” (that girl’s traditional peasant attire, a dress with two straps on top, and a shirt under), or the accuracy of it – I mean, what can I do. you are simply another culture person things don’t exist for you until written on paper. While Russians are quite able to process news in the word of the mouth format, songs (our unique means of comms with each other), Aesop tongue, samizdat, and what not.
Vysotsky, after all, got known across USSR without a single line published officially and a single record issued officially. to the degree that 350 million people knew his 900 songs by heart. without a single official appearance or sign of recognition of his very existence.
Same trick was repeated many times over, take Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Solzhenitsyn, Brodsky, Pasternak, Vertinsky, Gumilev-father and Gumilev-son, Mandelshtam, Galich and who not.

So, while you were busy reading your newspapers, we were busy typing and copying our samizdat, re-recording cassetes from each other, and , basically, how to say, this country has (dangerous:o) skills to survive without a word of formal media entirely. no one will even notice ))))

Still, I won’t know now who is Mugabe that all worried about so much recently and what had he done. And where is he either. no one ever mentioned it has any relation to Russia and therefore is not our speciality. We’ve got here a good half of the world to worry about ourselves ))) look at the map. plus immediate neighbours. one can’t embrace unibraceable. in the same manner we have skipped entirely the whole US and all your presidents up to the first meaningful for us, Roosevelt. in Russian understanding, before Roosevelt, the USA as good as not existed. ))))))

On the “USSR didn’t invent anything stole all” I don’t even feel energised to quarrel with you, so pathetic a claim.
And overall, how to say. I know what stands behind your automated need to label USSR as black and evil (and unable to come up with anything useful, in particular). Our “evilness” is the only justification for the American spread in the world, “protecting all from USSR”. what would you do, on what would you live, if not “evil USSR”. That’s your oil and gas of the budget. A purely technical need to black-mail Russsia, one of the corner-stones of America’s survival )))))

I can’t get ignited by so technical, explained and how to say, necessary for you a hate. A good, proper hate is something less explicit and ? more inexplicable by nature. Pity you, what to say. Will bark back, still, because you are anyway spoiled enough, but without putting much heart in it. Mummy Russia understands.

Overall, MA, get prepared for the future. And hope it doesn’t happen during your time. because Russia has heard about herself all things already, trains of paper and tons of ink were spent to discuss our defects ww of all historical periods, and there is hardly anything new and exciting to be surfacing anymore. all “USSR evils” are known, discussed, chewed on, conferences sat, books are publsihed and translated into all languages who ever got interested, careers made and degrees obtained on the subject.

While the USA still hears of itself carefully dosed news through tightly squeesed leaks. just try to close a military base or two, in any of your 150 world countries, and you’ll see the difference of what a country media thinks of you while you are there and what it thinks of you after you are gone.
When media and writers will feel they are complacent with their governments in their views. Try to leave Japan, LOL – and hear what they’ll say about you after. you won’t recognise yourself.

All this fun is still ahead for the Americans and I don’t envy you. Especially given how well you are able to stand the negative news on yourself – simply, spoiled, by half a century of free ride.

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