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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...

Great post, nulle! That's cool that Latvians aren't as shy as Belarusians, and aren't afraid to speak out.

Explanation of what?

Dude, you still live in the USSR? My sorry for you...

And you're the second person here who calls me a native Russian speaker. I'd like to understand the Russian logic, is that because of my posts...

And you didn't see such things in Belarus? I can hardly believe that...

By the way, in Russian they have a special term for such people, the term is "gopnik". Ask Marcus or whoever, each Russian...

I seem to have missed your point on what's wrong with the Baltic states. Is that lack of signs in Russian on the streets or something else?

I'm not sure about now, but they definitely did in 2005-2006. Their local cigarettes aren't far away from that brand anyway. =))

Is she gonna smoke them or just wants them for the collection? If the former, I can tell you that's gonna be probably the worst experience she ever had. I can tell that because I did taste that kind...

I beg to ask you what your age is. =)

Here lies all its utopianism. Who's to determine everyone's abilities and needs? If it's some "chosen ones", then it'll be the harshest dictatorship ever occured, they're never gonna determine that...

Nor do I. But I generally like your point, that's what I think of that too. It'd been obvious from the very beginning they fed that bullcr*p to the people just to hold the power.

I'd agree on the IT crowd (oh can you believe I just said "the IT crowd" :-P) salaries. But as for people from factories earning $400 - 600... that sounds like a myth (unless they're managers or...

I got some acquaintances there...

So, can you confirm my words or prove me wrong?

Marcus, an average Belarusian does NOT earn 500 Euros a month (that's what you meant, right? (month) ) ! And never has. Salaries of 500,000 - 600,000 a month in their local currency are pretty much...

Wait, didn't you write something like your Russian still left much to be desired?



Hmm, I wouldn't be so sure about that... unless you have some friends from Rublevka who would help you out...

I guess you did alright. Just for an account, would you like then to go to some Eastern European country and stay there? Like the one you're staying in now? You see, your impressions as a tourist may...

Firstly, try something like The Grand Central, I'm almost sure that's gonna do for you.

At least, you're a quite honest person which is so rare nowadays... :-P

And, by the way, Hanna, don't forget to post here your impressions on visiting that small town near Gomel (desirably with photos), I'm really looking forward to that. =)

Like the eviction of the OSCE mission from Belarus at the beginning of the year by will of their authorities. As you said, each coin always has two sides...

From what I heard, they faced a default on their local currency, but their Central Bank keeps denying that fact, therefore they have two exchange rates on each foreign currency - the official and the...

The next one is North Korea, I suppose. :-P

People there (as well as there =) ) can hardly recognize the letters "KFC" or the word "Starbucks"...

By the way, weren't you expecting to come...

I think they didn't like you were from the UK and spoke English overall.

Really? I mean, do they speak slower than the Russians? I've never really realized that...

What if they just ignore it this time? I think they can't calmly watch a parade of men in NKVD uniform either... for many reasons. And I can understand them.