No Good, Only Degrees of Horrible

Aug 17, 2008 18:36

Hey.

As loathe as I am to get into American politics now, I can't ignore those from the former Soviet Union. I'll get to Georgia in a moment...where I want to start is in Belarus, which was the subject of this week's PBS program P.O.V.. In theory Belarus is a modern post-Soviet democracy; in practice it is still Soviet, and if the leader and the ( Read more... )

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carsond August 18 2008, 02:49:17 UTC
I've an internet friend that was a member of the old Soviet Army. She very much prefers that time from now, so I can understand what the people of Belarus were expressing.

In very many ways the US are naive about how other parts of the world work.

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