Russia - worrying?

[lookout]

Watching Putin laying flowers on the tomb of the unknown soldier this morning made him look almost human.
 I really can't understand his way of thinking at all in carrying out the same thing that he blames the Nazi's of doing ?

The nearest I've been to Russia is when I met the Red Army choir in the 70's when on tour, and shook hands with Boris Alexandrov, who was the leader of this fabulous choir. They were amazing !
I did want to visit the country at one time but my brother just said " I'd rather you didn't ", as he was working for the government at the time involving telecommunications and computers. This was in the 70's/ 80's before there'd been an attempt on his life from one of their spies in South Africa.

[Roch]

Watching Putin laying flowers on the tomb of the unknown soldier this morning made him look almost human.
 I really can't understand his way of thinking at all in carrying out the same thing that he blames the Nazi's of doing ?

The nearest I've been to Russia is when I met the Red Army choir in the 70's when on tour, and shook hands with Boris Alexandrov, who was the leader of this fabulous choir. They were amazing !
I did want to visit the country at one time but my brother just said " I'd rather you didn't ", as he was working for the government at the time involving telecommunications and computers. This was in the 70's/ 80's before there'd been an attempt on his life from one of their spies in South Africa.

Bloody hell Lookout sounds serious. I take it he survived without injuries?

I can imagine you on some covert mission.. 'Lookout behind the Iron Curtain' 🙂

[lookout]

Bloody hell Lookout sounds serious. I take it he survived without injuries?

I can imagine you on some covert mission.. 'Lookout behind the Iron Curtain' 🙂

Yes Roch, he survived after having been " poisoned ". That was the thanks that brother got for inviting the" businessman" to stay at his home after picking him up from the flight at Heathrow. It was a business deal between this country and South Africa after brother had equipped about a dozen army trucks with the latest telecommunication equipment in South Africa. The guy was obviously a Russian spy. Needless to say it was hushed up at GCHQ where brother worked from. I think Khreschev was leader then.?

Speaking of curtains, I prefer velvet ones to iron  .

[lookout]

I was all for writing to the papers about the incident but brother didn't want that.

[lookout]

Much as we all like and admire the architecture in Moscow, why hasn't Ukraine lobbed a few bombs there to destroy what they have ?

[David1819]

I only know one person who visited the USSR. He told me that the hotel manger offered and bought a pair of his jeans for two hundred US dollars.

[lookout]

I only know one person who visited the USSR. He told me that the hotel manger offered and bought a pair of his jeans for two hundred US dollars.

No, they're not that hard-up are they ? Like the boat people who pay £5,000 to get into this country. I don't believe anyone who says that they're skint, really are ! In fact I don't believe anything any more 

[David1819]

No, they're not that hard-up are they ? Like the boat people who pay £5,000 to get into this country. I don't believe anyone who says that they're skint, really are ! In fact I don't believe anything any more 

200 USD back then is over 600 USD now. I'm guessing that hotel manager was in on the widespread corruption in the soviet union. While all the other staff were paid peanuts.

[lookout]

200 USD back then is over 600 USD now. I'm guessing that hotel manager was in on the widespread corruption in the soviet union. While all the other staff were paid peanuts.

A bit like here then.

[David1819]

The nearest I've been to Russia is when I met the Red Army choir in the 70's when on tour, and shook hands with Boris Alexandrov, who was the leader of this fabulous choir. They were amazing !
I did want to visit the country at one time but my brother just said " I'd rather you didn't ", as he was working for the government at the time involving telecommunications and computers. This was in the 70's/ 80's before there'd been an attempt on his life from one of their spies in South Africa.

Don't give any first hand accounts of Russian skulduggery. Gringo will start accusing you of being CIA propaganda. 

[nugnug]

https://off-guardian.org/2022/05/09/the-rise-of-the-new-normal-reich/

[Steve_uk]

Just so that you are in no doubt about who and what you are acting as apologists and enablers of; War graves in Nijmegen, Holland, were vandalised a few days ago. Take a look at their handiwork,
   
  Apologist; a person who offers an argument in defence of something controversial.

   I didn't suggest that you were apologising for Poroshenko's comments or for the Azov Nazis. I was pointing out that you are (offering an argument in defence of something controversial) acting as an apologist for Nazis.

What nonsense. Where is the condemnation within Russia of the desecration of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial? Did Putin know about this memorial and its significance? https://youtu.be/PcWk_ORbd64

[Steve_uk]

    There are plenty of ways of checking the translation, we live in the information age, Steve. It should have provoked at least a little intellectual curiosity from you. There is no denying that Poroshenko made that statement.
     Do you have any comment on the footage of US Senators Graham and McCain promising that 2017 would be the "year of offence" against Russia from Ukraine. Would you agree that it blows a hole in the Russian aggression narrative. No need to check any translations with that one either; it's in English.

This is in the context of the Russian invasion of Crimea, Ukrainian territory. Had McCain's and Graham's advice been heeded then we might not have found ourselves in another fine mess now, Stanley..https://thehill.com/policy/defense/224619-mccain-graham-call-for-us-to-arm-ukrainians/

[David1819]

Why is Russia’s army so weak? | The Economist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8C7aMeunE0

[nugnug]

borris is bloking peae talks https://youtu.be/bj5pBU_rbNE