what i find interesting is that i get both Sergey and Tatyana. i also understand their infighting…

its really due to places in time, and where they ended up, and both are right to a degree, and both are wrong to a degree..

though it would be a painful gordian knot to unravel.

tatyana is right in that you dont get the education sergey has and not be loyal to a degree.

and sergey is right, that the situation has changed, though i dont agree to the degree he promotes.

i too, unlike others are aware of the ideas of a certain russian who changed the face of the soviets with ideas of how to present a different face… which makes it impossible to know or tell whether sergey is following that idea, or just being sergey a person from who that perspective is honest.

Tatyana i think feels certain of one answer… while i feel certain that there is no way to know, or in this screwed up game, even to know tatyana’s position as not being feined.

this is not to be insulting, i really dont want to be.

its just a clear example of the kind of mind games that such a system creates within the people who have been stuck at some stage with it.

being from the outside of it with tour guides, i have seen this over and over in different forms…

and why i said, that rather than be a genious, stalins ideas of injecting a new 1/3 of the population may have insured that leaders stay leaders, but it also insured that leaders stay leaders over a population that can get their crap together as they are too busy focusing on things that distract them.

so forgive me if i didnt say that right… its a hard concept to try to convey to people who have no idea of the kinds of symptoms that such living can cause.

This guy is not a Colonel. Not even a Major.

Not higher than a Captain, and maybe even a Sr. Lieutenant.
Too crude.

Although with uncommonly good English – what, MGIMO? Interior FSB School?

How’s your family of 15 children? And your work in genetics (or whatever that cover was – microbiology? Viruses?) How’s your Christian Russian Orthodox calendar – what was the topic of the last sermon in your church? My, my, at this busy Easter week, with all the services and rites, this model Russian citizen found precious time, thorn from family and Spiritual Life, to lecture us on the glories of Russian government!

And everyone is reading quietly. Maybe even consider him FOR REAL.

No, this is too precious.

I’ll have to send the link to my friends and relatives. There is not much to laugh at this days, this might make the cut.

so sergey side protects intrigue… as being reasonable that it doesnt happen, despite history

and tatyanas side sees intrigue, even if there isnt… and so sees it as unreasonable to think otherwise given history.

only history would suggest who had the wiser position regardless of veracity…

in truth… russia leaders are very much the same leaders as before…and that is something that sergey cant get around. that a large number of the real movers and shakers who are not in the public eye, are still the same canny people who have only changed their behavior as it the cahnge suits their ends more, not because they learned something was wrong with an ideology that grants them so much.

My opinion?

i lean towards tatyana, given that there hs been little evidence of beneficial change in the polity, and much evidence in that they only changed tactics not ends.

this was why stalin replaced so many of each population with natives… in this way, he would be able to raise up race and divide the people, and in so doing secure his position over the rabble who cant see their hands in front of their faces.

It’s just lovely, how this Putinoid reveals his nature; next he’ll break into Russian anthem in extasy. Cover your ears, guys.