Her country facing spiraling inflation as the Ukraine war rages on (see story here), a top Russian economist somehow fell out of her Moscow apartment window, Russian media reported Tuesday (story here). Moscow’s windows sure are dangerous. Numerous prominent Russian officials have taken the plung[...]
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June 25th, 2024 - 6:53 pm § in America, Biden, China, Donald Trump, Europe, Foreign Affairs, Israel/Palestine, Politics, Republicans, Russia, Saudi Arabia
Is Biden senile?
Let’s figure this out. My raw material is Time magazine’s June 24, 2024, cover story (here). It’s mostly about foreign policy; I can only quote short excerpts, for space and fair use reasons, and encourage you to read the entire article linked above. It begins, “During his 40[...]
Tomorrow marks D-Day, and we’ve learned nothing
June 6, 2024, marks the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. We’re now four generations removed from that fateful day, and only a handful of its veterans are still alive to remind us of the lessons America should learn from that war. Before World War 2, America was isolationist, and caught [...]
June 5th, 2024 - 4:15 am § in Russia
Full-length movie: Lenin: The Train (1988). In English
In his 1964 biography, The Life and Death of Lenin, Robert Payne described Lenin as a “specter” whose impact on history “haunts the world.” The Bolshevik revolution was made possible by the German government’s decision in 1917 to smuggle Lenin across Germany in a sealed[...]
June 4th, 2024 - 1:19 pm § in Russia
PHOTOGRAPHY: Soviet housing
Isn’t communism *wonderful*?? Of course, this photo isn’t representative of all Soviet housing; there also were Gulag barracks and leaders’ dachas. But under communist-style equality, where the masses are equally poor, most Russians lived in drab concrete warrens like the one below[...]
Protesting in Russia (video)
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Russian parking rage, part 2 (video)
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Russian parking rage, part 1 (video)
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Russian traffic stop, part 2 (video)
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Russian traffic stop, part 1 (video)
You don’t have a right to remain silent. You don’t have a right to have an attorney present. You’re going straight to the gulag! Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]