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One of Linh's best.

The Jews will never forgive Russia for rejecting their anal revolution. Anyone who truly cares about their country and its traditional culture should pray Russia wins and eventually the American Empire is destroyed

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With China firmly on the side of neutral multipolarity as well Russia cannot lose long term. We can only hope the inevitable collapse of the US empire comes fast

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I really enjoyed this piece. Among other things, it puts me back in mind of all the Russian literature I've read and enjoyed over the years. In two years of university prior to my time in the military, that appreciation is one of the few things I gained from my "studies" (if one can call them that). I've been fascinated by Russia for a long time, and always wanted to visit. Now I suspect that will never happen, given my age and the retrograde trajectory of Western relations with them.

If I was to single out a favorite, I'd have to say it was "Dead Souls" by Nikolai Gogol. Why is this man traveling around Russia collecting the deeds to dead serfs? Alas, we never actually find out, since Gogol was to tell us in a sequel which in a fit of artistic rage he burned in a fire before it got published.

As an observer of the human condition, both old and new, you may find interesting Ivan Bunin, one of the last notable pre-revolutionary writers. His first novel, "The Village," is a pretty gritty portrayal of rural village life around the time of the 1905 revolution. From the jacket: "...the book follows characters sunk so far below the average of intelligence as to be scarcely human."

Anyone who is interested in Peter the Great could do worse than Robert Massie's biography. Peter was an amazing individual. Unlike our images of the typical tsars, he got off his throne and mixed it up with the common man while pursuing his modernization of the country.

Where Ingo Schulze talks about "standing in three lines for a pat of butter" I remembered how my high school Russian teacher, a Lithuanian, described it to us. When you get to the front of the first line you ask the clerk for what you want. Then you move to the second line where you pay for it. Lastly you go to the third line to pick up your purchase. My impression was that this was a Soviet "innovation"--I wonder if the practice persists? The teacher also told us that when you walked down the street, the windshield wipers blades on all the parked cars were missing--they had been removed by their owners so that they wouldn't be stolen.

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Sep 27, 2022·edited Sep 27, 2022

Why just steal the wiper blades? In America they would steal the whole car and take it to a chop shop, where selling the pieces would bring a tidy profit, and it is unlikely the thief would ever be caught.

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Shatov’s statement reminds me of the ancient Romans, the Spartans, and the American Founders. I don’t think humans can develop the same kind of loyalty and energy based on “universal values” or some global vision. I also think of the American Injun tribes, we usually know the tribes from names given them by others, as they mostly referred to THEIR tribe as “The People” and everyone else was some kind of foreigner. I also think of the aggregating clusters of survivors becoming tribes in The Walking Dead.

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Chekhov was always my favourite among the Russians. Then Dostoevsky, then Tolstoy. Just in terms of personal preference - technically, Tolstoy is probably the best writer among the three, although I can only read Russian in translation.

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Linh, I don't know if you're familiar with Scott Creighton, formerly of the American Everyman wordpress (variously deplatformed 5 or 6 times), but for some reason, I think you'd like him.

"Did NATO Sabotage NORD Stream Pipelines in Retaliation for Ukraine Referendums?" https://youtu.be/e-gfiLRYsdE

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I just read this and it is a very good roundup of the topic.

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And then I had a look at all his old articles on substack - what a resource. Thanks Joe.

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China will do nothing. I know, we project our revenge fantasies and hopes against primitive Africa, India, Russia and China, whom we hope will rise and end the Mad West. Not going to happen.

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We're in an existential struggle. If Washington's globalists, who run the Western world, win, the rest of the world loses. I keep waiting for China to come out from the shadows and publicly support Russia with more than just words. The minute they send in a few brigades to the ever-shrinking Ukraine border this disaster would be all over. Excellent work, Linh. Love the classy Russian music.

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I loved this piece. As for Russia, is a large country and there are many points of view. I am reminded of Maxim Gorki's Childhood which is just about as bad as it gets, but had a phone call from a friend in Australia last night who was going through a bad patch and spoke of Australia in similar terms. He had a particularly horrendous childhood too, and the Australia he describes is not the one I know. Not to say that either of us is wrong, but it is possible to live in different universes which intersect sometimes. I have come to the conclusion it is all but impossible to get a rounded view of another country without spending quite a decent amount of time there. You just wind up with a hall of mirrors reading what other people write. But who can deny that Russia has contributed as much to world culture as any country? Arguably more than many countries, including the USA. One of my very favourite modern books is Le Testament Francais by Andrei Makine. Something that still amuses me is listening to commentators telling me what Putin is thinking, feeling, planning or otherwise being motivated by. Seriously? Just make it up, its free, and some of the cretins out there will believe every word.

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Im not pro NATO/Ukraine or anything but isnt this idea that Russia is a bastion of tradition and general basedness kinda exaggerated? It seems pretty degenerate to me. Isnt Russia the number one snuff producer in the world or something? I get that people need hope or whatever but still, see things for what they are.

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"Isn't Russia the number one snuff producer in the world or something?"

Is it? Can you tell me where I can find all of this Russian snuff? If it was, I'm sure that many Americans would think twice about sanctioning Russia if they can't get their snuff fix. I've heard about Russia's abundance energy, grains and minerals but the snuff exports escaped my attention.

Are you referring to all of the AFU casualties that I've seen on bitchute? In that case you might be on to something.

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Russia is big on snuff and regular porn. I guess if you really wanna find out you'll have to look on the deep web or something. It isnt this trad utopia people want it to be, just beacause USA and Europe sucks Russia doesnt automatically turn into a paradise devoid of vice.

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On the other hand, you can walk into any theater in the United States and watch a movie where people are shot, stabbed, murdered, decapitated, and these movies are produced in and distributed from the United States. Now, of course, maybe it's not "actual" snuff scenes, but when dealing with the visceral enjoyment —or, maybe more accurately, the mindless indulgement— these forms of entertainment trigger similar desires within the audience. That is, they want to see people dismembered, destroyed, eaten (zombies, vampires, Lechter, &c), and so they are paying for this.

And on another hand, you can watch videos released by the United States government militaries showing off actual combat footage where their missiles, their bombs, their thermobaric weaponry, reduce other humans to dusts, pastes, shreds.

And on yet another hand, you can watch the latest Twitter video where a police officer casually places his cup of coffee on his dashboard, strolls to the rear of his patrol vehicle, readies his longarm, and then shoots and kills an active shooter. "Shots fired, subject down."

See things for what they are.

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America is sick, but that doesnt make Russia less sick. Haven't we been through this "you gotta choose a side" thing before?

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I'm not saying you "gotta choose a side," nor am I saying Russia is less sick.

I'm saying, the USA also produces and enjoys watching people suffer then die.

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Agreed. Won't argue that.

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The future of Russia is Islam. Christianity died in Russia in the 1920s and Putin's FSB sham Christianity has singularly failed to lay deep roots. Islam on the other hand has very deep roots in Tatarstan, Bashkiria and the Cacauses, and cannot be eradicated. When Putin's Russia collapses in the near future, Russians will turn to Islam as the only path for an independent Russia that can lead Central Asia and the Middle East into a future free of Western or Chinese control. The Scythian heart of Russia will prevail in the end.

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Hello "fellow Russian people". LOL. ;)

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