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True, but not to the extent Chekov did in Star Trek :)

Well to be fair, most of the satire was directed at America...




At the risk of sounding like a Trekkie, I confess that I really liked Star Trek, especially the original. I never really...

Крокодил was kind of like the "Mad Magazine" of the Soviet Union...

Krokodil Magazine - Журнал Крокодил: Krokodil Magazine

It was full of political cartoons and anecdotes, as well as humorous...

There is a new series on TV now called "The Americans." I was afraid to watch it at first because I thought it might be more клюква but when I saw it I was pleasantly surprised. The story is about...

Fair enough Throbert. Fake may have been a hasty choice of words. But it certainly was not accurate in any case. I think we can agree that it was biased, unfair and misleading, perhaps.

As for...

Sounds like the majority of people everywhere. As Shakespeare wrote "Hercules will do as he may, still cats will meow and dogs have their day."

Indeed it was his only foreign travel experience outside the Isles.

Lewis Carroll in a Russian wonderland of surprises - Telegraph


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It was all made up, Eric! That was not really Soviet propaganda. It was a White House briefing full of faked stuff.

As for Soviet propaganda about America, didn't you ever read Крокодил? I...

It is said that Lewis Carroll based his classic "Through the Looking Glass" on his own travels in Russia. I am not sure it was ever confirmed if this is true, but it would not surprise me in the...

I think it was just a sign of the bad economy back then.

Chicken was pretty easy to differentiate from other meats. But pork, not so much. I think there were a couple times when I ate horse-meat. Often the meat was prepared in such a way that it wasn't...

Our столовая didn't serve that! Lucky you, it sounds delicious! Mostly we had яичница (fried or soft boiled), каша, and some kind of macaroni with sauce. On rare occasions there was meat, usually...

Nope. As a matter of fact, I worked за рубли and so actually it was very rare that we went out to the expensive, private restaurants and I only ate at the Astoria one time. More frequently I ate...

I absolutely loved the мароженое they sold in Soviet times. Delicious! Советское шампанское was another favorite. And as for food, well there was not a lot of variety when I was there because by...

Laws are only effective when they are enforced. Wall Street, big oil, big pharma and military contractors have demonstrated time and again that they can circumnavigate the law with ease. As for...

I ran into a lot of those self-hating Russians you describe when I was living there. I wrote about a little of it in my blog. I remember people saying, frequently, that Russians are the poorest...

That, Eric, is the question that has plagued humanity since the dawn of time. Who regulates the regulators? Too many of them are bought and paid for. Big Pharma practically owns the FDA and write...

When I was living in the USSR in 1991, right during its collapse, Russians were enamored with America. They thought it was some kind of great utopia and they had nothing but resentment and...