(after his speech on anniversary of WWII beginning I don't expect anything nice)
I remember reading a transcript of that. ._. I think Putin should start reading Hetalia, it might help.
we discovered that image of Russia that we learned from our schools is totally like LotR's Mordor XD;
...Okay that's terrible so why am I laughing. Uhhh, yeah, pretty much! Even in America, we're usually taught that Russia is, you know, the Towering Nameless Faceless Monolith of Menace, Who Knows Neither Fear Nor Pity. It comes as a genuinely surprising thought to most Americans to think that, you know...Russians were afraid of the idea of nuclear war, too!
Which like, /facepalm, duh, but on the other hand, if you never think about it...you know?
Could you give me example of different views on historical events? It's very interesting!Oh God, yeah! I think the most striking example I've come across is the Berlin Airlift. That's when (according to Western historians) the USSR blockaded West Berlin, preventing food or fuel from entering the city in
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Worse, this attitude of the "civilized" West to "always barbaric" Russia is a long tradition. It is not surprising that in the Russian literature appear poems like "Slanderers Russia" by Pushkin or "The Scythians" Block. "The Scythians" (1918), incidentally, turned out to be a good geopolitical predictions about the fate of Europe, but, alas, the appeal of the poet still did not heard. "The skeleton of Europe" already was broken, and now Russia has moved to the next stanza - to an ironic observation of the wars.
"..Okay that's terrible so why am I laughing. Uhhh, yeah, pretty much! Even in America, we're usually taught that Russia is, you know, the Towering Nameless Faceless Monolith of Menace, Who Knows Neither Fear Nor Pity. It comes as a genuinely surprising thought to most Americans to think that, you know...Russians were afraid of the idea of nuclear war, too
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Re: About Mordor:radittzMarch 22 2010, 02:30:21 UTC
.... but villains are usually much more awsome than "good" characters :P When think about it, that's the reason why I like anime and manga so much, it's from different view than Western stuff and all characters usually have some reasons for their actions.
Is that bad if I laughed when I read "Ithilien - often overrun with orcs"? xD; LotR is <3
I remember reading a transcript of that. ._. I think Putin should start reading Hetalia, it might help.
we discovered that image of Russia that we learned from our schools is totally like LotR's Mordor XD;
...Okay that's terrible so why am I laughing. Uhhh, yeah, pretty much! Even in America, we're usually taught that Russia is, you know, the Towering Nameless Faceless Monolith of Menace, Who Knows Neither Fear Nor Pity. It comes as a genuinely surprising thought to most Americans to think that, you know...Russians were afraid of the idea of nuclear war, too!
Which like, /facepalm, duh, but on the other hand, if you never think about it...you know?
Could you give me example of different views on historical events? It's very interesting!Oh God, yeah! I think the most striking example I've come across is the Berlin Airlift. That's when (according to Western historians) the USSR blockaded West Berlin, preventing food or fuel from entering the city in ( ... )
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http://web.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Demo/texts/scythians_blok.html
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I wonder if those stupid stereotypes about Russia will finally gone in this century, I think that everything depends on politics... :/
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When think about it, that's the reason why I like anime and manga so much, it's from different view than Western stuff and all characters usually have some reasons for their actions.
Is that bad if I laughed when I read "Ithilien - often overrun with orcs"? xD;
LotR is <3
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