Thread: Travel Blog; CIS/ex-USSR countries (i.e. Russian speaking)

My neighbours think that the demise of the USSR was a great tragedy and that all the bad information about it was propaganda and lies.

When TV showed a feature about the 20 year anniversary of the August coup in 1991, they both thought it was a great shame that the coup failed! Oh dear.

They are so incredibly friendly that I am not getting time for all the stuff that I am here to do, chatting all the time and inviting me to dinner etc. Today I got fish straight from the local lake.
This lifestyle is really lovely.

This is the type of fish that I ate:

Originally Posted by Hanna

My neighbours think that the demise of the USSR was a great tragedy and that all the bad information about it was propaganda and lies.

When TV showed a feature about the 20 year anniversary of the August coup in 1991, they both thought it was a great shame that the coup failed! Oh dear.

They are so incredibly friendly that I am not getting time for all the stuff that I am here to do, chatting all the time and inviting me to dinner etc. Today I got fish straight from the local lake.
This lifestyle is really lovely.

This is the type of fish that I ate:

Это окунь?

Originally Posted by Hanna

My neighbours think that the demise of the USSR was a great tragedy and that all the bad information about it was propaganda and lies.

When TV showed a feature about the 20 year anniversary of the August coup in 1991, they both thought it was a great shame that the coup failed! Oh dear.

After Bernard Shaw visited the USSR during the starvation, he told everyone what a nice country it was, that there was actually no starvation there, that HE'd had there the best dinner in his life (!). He also said that "any 'skilled workman...of suitable age and good character' would be welcomed and given work in the Soviet Union". When he was asked by a journalist during his press conference why then he hadn't stayed in the Soviet heaven and had still gotten back, he said something like "The Britain is hell for sure, but I'm an old sinner and supposed to be in hell".

I guess your neighbors are the same kind of people.