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[Bohemian Toffee]

I was finishing school around the time the Berlin Wall fell and studying German. The collapse of empires became something of a fascination. I studied ballet as a child and read lots of books about Anna Pavlova and the Mariinsky theatre so I also had this fascination with Russia. When I was deciding what I wanted to do after school, I considered studying either German and Japanese or German and Russian. Ultimately it depended on the prosaic matter of which country I’d saved up enough money to go to. So I flew to Moscow in December 1991 at New Year, right at the fall of the Soviet Union. It was just an incredible time, exhilarating, a completely new world. It was the first time people were allowed on Red Square to celebrate on New Year’s Eve. I went on to study in Krasnoyarsk, which had only been open to foreigners for a few years, and we were treated with such hospitality. After graduating, I worked for an English language newspaper in Moscow and became addicted to covering Russian news, but I had a general fear I didn’t fully understand what I was writing about, so I came back to the UK to study for an MA in Russian politics.


She is 100% not pro-Western.

 

[Rita_Poon]

I was finishing school around the time the Berlin Wall fell and studying German. The collapse of empires became something of a fascination. I studied ballet as a child and read lots of books about Anna Pavlova and the Mariinsky theatre so I also had this fascination with Russia. When I was deciding what I wanted to do after school, I considered studying either German and Japanese or German and Russian. Ultimately it depended on the prosaic matter of which country I’d saved up enough money to go to. So I flew to Moscow in December 1991 at New Year, right at the fall of the Soviet Union. It was just an incredible time, exhilarating, a completely new world. It was the first time people were allowed on Red Square to celebrate on New Year’s Eve. I went on to study in Krasnoyarsk, which had only been open to foreigners for a few years, and we were treated with such hospitality. After graduating, I worked for an English language newspaper in Moscow and became addicted to covering Russian news, but I had a general fear I didn’t fully understand what I was writing about, so I came back to the UK to study for an MA in Russian politics.


She is 100% not pro-Western.

Have a like, but there's an innate sadness in there also. Good for you for getting off your backside and pursuing a passion though, and the bonus of being so far away from Everton. May your statue be made of bronze, and oversee the fall of empires long after you have laid down your quill...

 

[Kev The Rat]

I was finishing school around the time the Berlin Wall fell and studying German. The collapse of empires became something of a fascination. I studied ballet as a child and read lots of books about Anna Pavlova and the Mariinsky theatre so I also had this fascination with Russia. When I was deciding what I wanted to do after school, I considered studying either German and Japanese or German and Russian. Ultimately it depended on the prosaic matter of which country I’d saved up enough money to go to. So I flew to Moscow in December 1991 at New Year, right at the fall of the Soviet Union. It was just an incredible time, exhilarating, a completely new world. It was the first time people were allowed on Red Square to celebrate on New Year’s Eve. I went on to study in Krasnoyarsk, which had only been open to foreigners for a few years, and we were treated with such hospitality. After graduating, I worked for an English language newspaper in Moscow and became addicted to covering Russian news, but I had a general fear I didn’t fully understand what I was writing about, so I came back to the UK to study for an MA in Russian politics.


She is 100% not pro-Western.

Mate she’s just said she cheered on the collapse of the ussr in that post

Glorifying the ‘exhilaration’ of millions thrust into poverty and hunger

 

[EPSBLue]

Mate she’s just said she cheered on the collapse of the ussr in that post

Glorifying the ‘exhilaration’ of millions thrust into poverty and hunger

But you yearn for and cheer for the collapse of Ukraine, that's why your views and evidence (x10 the casualty rate?) should be ignored too right?

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

I was finishing school around the time the Berlin Wall fell and studying German. The collapse of empires became something of a fascination. I studied ballet as a child and read lots of books about Anna Pavlova and the Mariinsky theatre so I also had this fascination with Russia. When I was deciding what I wanted to do after school, I considered studying either German and Japanese or German and Russian. Ultimately it depended on the prosaic matter of which country I’d saved up enough money to go to. So I flew to Moscow in December 1991 at New Year, right at the fall of the Soviet Union. It was just an incredible time, exhilarating, a completely new world. It was the first time people were allowed on Red Square to celebrate on New Year’s Eve. I went on to study in Krasnoyarsk, which had only been open to foreigners for a few years, and we were treated with such hospitality. After graduating, I worked for an English language newspaper in Moscow and became addicted to covering Russian news, but I had a general fear I didn’t fully understand what I was writing about, so I came back to the UK to study for an MA in Russian politics.


She is 100% not pro-Western.

For a second there.

 

[Goat]

Mate she’s just said she cheered on the collapse of the ussr in that post

Glorifying the ‘exhilaration’ of millions thrust into poverty and hunger

Yeah, cos it was unicorns and rainbows under communist rule.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Yeah, cos it was unicorns and rainbows under communist rule.

Different version of black swan that was!

 

[tsubaki]

Mate she’s just said she cheered on the collapse of the ussr in that post

Glorifying the ‘exhilaration’ of millions thrust into poverty and hunger

kev do you have some app or other add-on installed that makes you see text that the rest of us cannot?

 

[Kev The Rat]

kev do you have some app or other add-on installed that makes you see text that the rest of us cannot?

Don’t think so

Maybe you need a new pair of glasses though

‘So I flew to Moscow in December 1991 at New Year, right at the fall of the Soviet Union. It was just an incredible time, exhilarating, a completely new world‘

 

[Rita_Poon]

kev do you have some app or other add-on installed that makes you see text that the rest of us cannot?

 

[Rita_Poon]

Don’t think so

Maybe you need a new pair of glasses though

‘So I flew to Moscow in December 1991 at New Year, right at the fall of the Soviet Union. It was just an incredible time, exhilarating, a completely new world‘

lol

 

[tsubaki]

Don’t think so

Maybe you need a new pair of glasses though

‘So I flew to Moscow in December 1991 at New Year, right at the fall of the Soviet Union. It was just an incredible time, exhilarating, a completely new world‘

... and the rest of the quote is...

 

[Kev The Rat]

... and the rest of the quote is...

You tell me how whatever comes next contradicts that

 

[tsubaki]

You tell me how whatever comes next contradicts that

The bit about Russian people being free to go to Red Square on New Years'? The bit where she said how she was treated with such hospitality?

Perhaps you could tell me where she revelled in millions of people going hungry?

 

[Kev The Rat]

The bit about Russian people being free to go to Red Square on New Years'? The bit where she said how she was treated with such hospitality?

Perhaps you could tell me where she revelled in millions of people going hungry?

we know what came after that in the nineties

So does she

Unrepentant

Make no bones about it for her the collapse of the ussr was an imperialistic victory for the west