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James Lileks on the Russian soul [Feb. 4th, 2003|04:13 am]
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He said:
It’s the lure of the Russian character as we seem to define it - rash, sullen, romantic, effusive, violent, introspective, depressed, gorgeous and fiery and wintry and mad.

We’ve all dated someone like that.
Ha! :-)
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From:[info]m_p@lj
Date:February 4th, 2003 - 03:40 am
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because the Soviet tyranny was so costly to Russia, you must deplore it, but . . . well, the nature of the Soviet regime was distinctly Russian, after all.

Olshansky gotta like it....
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From:[info]cema@lj
Date:February 4th, 2003 - 09:24 pm
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Yeah.

But indeed, Russian totalitarianism was different from the Nazi or Maoist system. China has recently become, or seems to have become, something like a pomo Sovok, and the Reich never had a chance to grow to middle age, but the Soviet system after Stalin, and especially after Brezhnev, was -- as they say -- pretty vegetarian... (not a very Russian analogy, though).