The Oil and the Glory #2 / Steve LeVine / Russia

[wilsparky]

'The Russian way being very different to the Western way and often contradictory to it'

What the fuck does that mean? Exoticising the Russians? The Russians are the most straight forward, decent, honest people on earth. I am sick of this shit about Russians being 'strange' 'aggressive' and 'alien'...it is shit. Russians are intelligent, patient, literate, numerate, disolute sometimes and above all...human.

Check out the tears at Beslan. Those people are real and their kids were murdered.

[russalka1]

Amen brother... I think you got that point right. Dont know if I could state that better. But Russia will again be an independent world power (and already is).

[wilsparky]

why?

[viri1809]

this is an excellent book!