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theashesstir

OH SHIT SON...

Apr 08, 2006 19:30

This is super tentative right now (and will probably be for the next month at least) and i feel like I'm jinxing it by even saying anything about it, but it looks like I might have another major trip lined up for this summer... where? RUSSIA, that's where! too fucking sweet.
Now, I have some scheming to do.

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geneurotrip April 9 2006, 03:06:58 UTC

FUCK YOU!

theashesstir April 9 2006, 04:58:56 UTC

intriguing...
:P

geneurotrip April 9 2006, 05:12:37 UTC

Ha! You'll have to pay for my plane ticket to Russia first!

theashesstir April 9 2006, 06:43:12 UTC

hmm... you drive a hard bargain comrade. But, for the people....

Aren't you going to be in the Balkans during late summer anyway? Perhaps a compromise is in order... maybe a train ticket and some heavy frottage in a sateillite republic? Somewhere w/ a sultry air of Titoism? Hehehe... Tito is Sooo sultry! He's like a socialist, male, balkan version of Sade; except with less legs and more badges.

Or alternately, I'll meet you in Vienna at the train station: Platform number nine. It'll be chill, bring a bottle of wine - we'll go hunt out Rimbaud's Ice-cream-poesy-peddlin' ghost on the banks of Danube.

Hmm... nothing like a little wax-romantic simulacru when you ought to be writing overdue papers...

geneurotrip April 9 2006, 07:27:19 UTC

No compromise. Mother Russia or nothing! Did the Soviets compromise in the Hungarian Revolution? No! Prague Spring? Fuck No! Cuban Missile Crisis? Well, kinda.. Did they compromise with Tito? Hella no-they expelled him and Yugoslavia! So comrade, I'll not settle for a former socialist republic that got kicked out of the comintern.

If you want to relive 'before sunrise', I've done that already and I saw Tito's grave on the same trip.

theashesstir April 9 2006, 08:16:10 UTC

Before Sunrise & Tito's grave eh? That's pretty sweet ( ... )

geneurotrip April 10 2006, 01:39:10 UTC

The best part about the before sunrise tour- I took a photo of everywhere I went with my Stephane Quintal bobblehead in the background (see my icon).

The comintern very much enjoyed burning bridges when other communist countries wouldnt be their satellite states. China is another example. It kind of makes you wonder why the USSR was so successful in Africa. Ethiopia under Mengistu. On and off with Amin. Angola.

Good luck on your paper.

theashesstir April 10 2006, 03:41:08 UTC

Comintern was largely a Trotskyite project & doctrine though, right? He was the one who insisted most heavily on exporting communism and instigating global revolution. Stalinism, as i understand it - a one-state emphasized project, doesn't seem very compatible w/ the underlying concept of comintern anyway. I wonder how different the world would be today if the menshivik (sp?) faction had succeeded Lenin like they were meant to.

Now ... i'm starting to research ways of getting into the DPRK, with a possible return flight through Vladivostok.

geneurotrip April 10 2006, 05:27:47 UTC

Comintern was Lenin's baby. Trotsky was originally a Menshevik but switched to the Bolsheviks. Comintern was eventually dissolved in WWII and replaced with cominform, which reflected Stalins desires a lot more. Then Khrushchev dissolved that.

Yeah, I wonder what would have happened if Trotsky succeeded Lenin. The Ukrainian famine would have never happened and same with the anti aggression pact with the nazis.

I don't think getting into the DPRK is a problem, its getting out... Maybe flying out of Beijing would be a better choice.

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