The quake that's still shaking the Eastern world

[htpcl]

Zdravstvuyte, moi tovarischi greetings, my comrades! Do you know what date it is today? December 8, 1991. Does it speak anything to you? No? Well... Look at this map.

Comments

[underlankers]

An awesome post. *two thumbs up.*

[htpcl]

You don't wanna play... *sniff*
I was expecting you to blow all historical points to smithereens!

[underlankers]

All the historical points are not only spot-on but they are succintly and aptly stated. If the history's done right I have no nitpicks with it. ^.^

[htpcl]

I guess it helps having lived through it personally, if only in one of the peripheral satellites. But maybe it's better this way. Many Russians today are in total denial about these realities and they prefer to look at their own society through whatever ideological prisms they've willfully imposed upon themselves. But we can't judge them for that - it's too easy to say U R doin it rrong n00b when we're detached from the actual events.

[underlankers]

It also doesn't help that Russia's actually done far more than most other societies to implode its own mythology and to examine the nastier sides of its history. Moreso even than Germany, in some ways. It's certainly more than most other societies have tended to do with the mythology at the hearts of their own history. So people jeer at them for what they already do.