i am truly upset, and coping with death of a controversial, national soviet author has completely dumstruck me ( Read more... )

"shukov went to sleep fully content. he'd had many strokes of luck that day: they hadn't put him in the cells; they hadn't sent his squad to the settlement; he'd swiped a bowl of kasha at dinner; the squad leader had fixed the rates as well; he'd built a wall and enjoyed doing it; he'd smuggled that bit of hacksaw blade through; he'd earned a ( Read more... )

What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.
Doctor Zhivago

"According to the Russian Health Ministry, in 1996 the index of vodka consumption was about 38 liters per person a year. In the USA, the index is 8 liters per person."

http://www.russiancourier.com/en/info/customs/48673/

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seriously, i can't even say how excited i am to find this. i fucking love this band and i've been missing them since august 2006. IT'S SO AMAZING TO HAVE THEM BACK IN MY LIFE.

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i dreamed this morning that i was in the united states, but a soviet inspired building, that was also a modernized european style factory. i was there with christina and buttsky, and it was quite odd as i couldn't tell why i was there, aside from the fact that christina wanted a tattoo on her back of what seemed to be a map on her back, off ( Read more... )

whoa... we drank like the russians (not to excess, but with vodka and pickles... tasty!), we ate like the russians (katia and i made russian pierogies!), we spoke like the russians ("i am putin, and i will take over the USSR... i mean, be the rightful, elected president of russia!"), and had a hearty time. i was suprised at the attendence, ( Read more... )