Ringo
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$50Or doing something like referencing actual facts.
On the contrary, it is Russian rulers tried to reform the country on European manner, not very successful for the most part.
"...this myth arose even before the beginning of Catherine's journey from St. Petersburg to the Crimea. Detractors began to spread rumors that things were going badly in the territories entrusted to Potemkin. The favorite of the Empress was accused of embezzlement. Catherine decided to check these rumors during a trip planned for the summer of 1787.The "Potemkin Village".
That's what they "said", huh? so, if I don't try to bride a cop that means he doesn't take bribes?I saw polls of New York citizens, everyone said that they never tried to bribe cops.
What?! A million innocent men, women, and children were tortured and killed in Irak because of American corruption. And then there is Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Iran, Grenada, Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, San Salvadore, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Chile, Bosnia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, etc. etc. etc. Not to mention the Tuskeegee Experiment, MK ULTRA, the assassination of J.K. Kennedy, Olaf Plame, Osama bin Laden, Gul Rahman, Frank Olson ........ There is no nation upon this earth that is as corrupt as the U.S.Even if there is corruption there, it is much less than in other countries.
Hence, a term that still lives on today in Russia. And something that the Soviets tried to emulate over and over again.
The "Potemkin Village".
Most of the Soviet Union was like that. Trying to show to the world how advanced they were, and many visitors seeing that seemed to be true. But only in the areas they were actually allowed to visit, most of the country was still living in standards closer to the 19th century than the 20th century. And like North Korea is today.
Heck, proof of how much the Soviet Union was a Potemkin Village can be clearly seen in 1959. Nikita Khrushchev visited the US at an exhibit in New York, to show what a "Modern US Home" looked like in 1959. He was accompanied by Vice President Nixon, and called it all "American Propaganda". He simply could not accept that by 1959, the average American home had electricity, plumbing, gas or electric heat, washing machines and driers, stoves, electric refrigerators, electric mixers, televisions, and all of the other things that most in the US owned. The First Secretary insisted over and over that was only how the rich in the US lived. He just could not comprehend that really was the standard of living for the majority of the country.
The real irony, was that the two men did come to an agreement, that the entire "Kitchen Debate" would be filmed (it was), and translated and released across both nations. The next day, it was broadcast across all three US networks, almost complete. The Soviet Union finally did broadcast it. With little translated that the Vice President said, and broadcast in the middle of the night so almost nobody saw it. And another thing he dismissed as "Propaganda" were things like supermarkets when he later visited the US, saying they were only created for the "elites" in the US, and that it could not be true that just anybody could shop at one.
The final irony, the First Secretary claimed that Nixon's grandchildren would grow up in a Communist nation. And the VP said Khrushchev's would grow up in freedom. And it was 33 years later that the Soviet Union collapsed, so guess which was right?
Well, in 1991 his son Sergei Khrushchev emigrated to the US and became a US citizen. Funny, I can't think of any of Nixon's children or grandchildren emigrating to a Communist country.
I will say that I actually do have some respect for Khrushchev, and his leadership over the Soviets was much less brutal than under Stalin. Bu was a hardcore Communist, and simply could not believe that the US operated as freely and openly as it did.
I read a book of Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov which is called 'One-storey America'.
It must be remembered that they were primarily satirists, as well as journalists for Pravda. So is that really unexpected?
And for those that love satire literature or Mel Brooks movies, they are also the creators of Ostap bender, the most famous work on him being "The Twelve Chairs". A superb story about a former member of the nobility, who is reduced to working as an anonymous government clerk after the Revolution. Until his mother-in-law when she is dying tells him she had hidden the family jewels inside one of a set of twelve dining room chairs.
And what follows is a madcap chase throughout the Soviet Union to hunt down each of the chairs and recover the jewels inside. Shortly after the journey, he meets and forms a partnership with a swindler and con man named Ostap Bender.
If anybody likes old cinema, there is actually a 1938 German adaptation available on Archive.Org.
It's a bullshit. When the government is corrupt, the people live in shit, and the Americans have a high standard of living.There is no nation upon this earth that is as corrupt as the U.S.
Yes, because demand creates supply. Corruption is a kind of tradition, when it is spread, everyone is involved there and it is in the order of things
I can sum up these posts of yours in two words: Young and/or Inexperienced and to quote this, "Americans have a high standard of living" is proof enough that you know very little about the world.It's a bullshit. When the government is corrupt, the people live in shit, and the Americans have a high standard of living.
When there is corruption in power, the institutions of power do not work, and the American police and military have excellent training.
I'll give you a real example. In russia, the average income of ordinary citizens in the provinces is in the region of $ 300-400 per month. In July, the police chief of Yegoryevsk, a provincial small town, with only 70 thousand population, was detained, he lived in a house that looks like a palace, with an area of 500 square meters, there was a bunker, and
there was found over $ 5 million in cash. His last name is Ermakov, you can check, there was a lot of news. They found it during a search, in another case.
Now compare the level of the economy of this small town and the size of the amount. Can you imagine such a scale of corruption in the United States?
In Russia, even employees of special departments and the criminal investigation department do not train like that.
I think this is a good practice, it makes the army independent from the state. This is an institution of right-wing democracy. This is good for both the army and the people.Yes, like in many countries they just call in the military if things get to intense for them to handle.
There are laws preventing that in the US, therefore the law enforcement has to handle everything short of an actual insurrection.
This issue can be explored in the context of the army itself. In the United States, a professional army is probably the only country in the world to have a professional army. Left armies are always not professional, and for a reason. The army of the left regime must be easily manipulated. To do this, it must be absolutely centralized, and not have individualism. The best soldier of the left army is a slave who only obeys orders, at all levels, then this army is completely in the hands of the state.Yes, like in many countries they just call in the military if things get to intense for them to handle.
There are laws preventing that in the US, therefore the law enforcement has to handle everything short of an actual insurrection.
Here you are not quite right. Russia now means the entire territory of the Russian Federation, and historical Russia is only Belarus, Lithuania and Moscow. This is a Baltic region, and this region has really always been backward, before the Avars came there was not even iron, and they used bone needles. But this is precisely what European culture was. It was this region that was originally European. Europe itself has also been extremely backward historically. The East had a history of thousands of years. It was from there that technical progress came to backward Europe. Europe has historically been the most backward region on earth. And in the Middle Ages, they again slipped into obscurantism and illiteracy, they forgot how to even washAre you really trying to sell this nonsense that the workers in the West were inspired by the Soviet Union to struggle for their rights? Jesus..
Read something about trade unions in Europe and the English industrial revolution.
Russia was never an example for the West as it was deemed as illiterate and backward country throughout all its history. On the contrary, it is Russian rulers tried to reform the country on European manner, not very successful for the most part.
Ilf and Petrov were Stalin's fosterlings. What does Khrushchev have to do with it? Khrushchev was in the United States and did not hide anything, his photographs were published in the Soviet press. Khrushchev was the leader of the right deviation, he hated Bolshevism.Khrushchev was a well-known demagogue. It wasn't strange that he was surprised seeing an average American home.
I read a book of Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov which is called 'One-storey America'. This book was written in 1930s and is based on their experience while travelling across the US at those times.