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Old 07-15-11, 06:02 AM   #151
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Default Proper Techniques for Pistol Accuracy (VIDEO)

Todd Jarrett IPSC Pistol Grip Lesson, watch the video:

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Old 07-15-11, 07:36 PM   #152
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Not bad, try shootin that fast with factory loads and hit every target, then you are doing something, anybody can shoot a squirt gun. yeah I know it's 7.62x39 not 5.62x39 fat fingers tiny keyboard.
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Old 07-15-11, 08:17 PM   #153
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Impressive technique.
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Old 11-15-11, 03:21 PM   #154
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Default Video: The Russia that We Lost



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Great video about Russia at the turn of the Century, pre-revolution. I love the interviews with the old people, talking about life in Tsarist Russia.

I own this video on VHS, and I haven't watched it in years. I was kinda surprised to find the full video on youtube.

@ any Russians: I'd love to hear your thoughts/ opinions about it.
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Old 11-21-11, 10:12 AM   #155
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Old 11-21-11, 11:03 AM   #156
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Got this bookmarked, just need to have a little time free from work to watch. I have heard of this film before, though!
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Old 11-21-11, 01:28 PM   #157
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The film itself is, in many ways, a product of its times - very much in the spirit of 1992, and remarkable considering what a huge change that is from just a few years before. Fascinating footage and fascinating overview - but history-wise, I think it's very much a romantic look that many unfortunately take for granted. Yes, Russia wasn't as backwards and hopeless as Soviet history may have portrayed it, but it was still a very troubled country, with poor and incompetent leadership, severe socioeconomic problems, and a difficult international position. The film romanticizes a Russia that we lost, along with Western alternatives, but ignores a lot of the real problems that existed on the ground.

I am particularly cynical of the positive portrayals of Nicholas II and some of the aristocratic leaders - Russia was plagued with leadership problems for hundreds of years now. They ranged from mad visionaries, to hopeless idealists, to conservative stalwarts, to incompetent fools - and not one fully effective. Nicholas II was somewhere between idealist and incompetent fool, and sadly with the worst traits of both. I don't doubt for a second that he was a wonderful family man and a lovely guy - but he was criminally irresponsible. Sorry, but him and his wife fully deserved their ultimate fate (though their children absolutely didn't) - and their elevation to sainthood is just another illustration of what's wrong with the Russian Orthodox church and Russian nostalgic conservatism. And a there are a lot of overtones of that here.

Russia was factually behind the West in many regards, and was suffering from a lot of anxiety precisely because of it. It was that anxiety that spilled out into desperate and extreme alternatives that never really took root in the west. Communism wasn't a Russian invention. But Russia was hungry for Western imports for a reason - precisely because as a society, it lacked a real center and a real balance. It did not have a strong a competent leadership, a working geopolitical strategy, or a sustainable and fair economy. The conservative, diverse, difficult culture (shaped by a difficult history) did not have much to offer to that moment in history.

A revolution had to happen. It was the inevitable and maybe even right thing for a rapidly collapsing society - a society that was collapsing not by conspiracy, but by sheer political, economic, military inefficacy. Just look at how this great, peak-form country of Russia did in the Russo-Japanese war and WWI. Noone is to blame for that but the "Russia that we lost" itself. But if the revolution had to happen, the tragedy was where it went and the way it was hijacked - by a ruthlessly competent, ideologically-bent minority movement. They knew what they wanted and knew how to get it, and were willing to do so no matter the cost. The rest is history. Of course the terror that was to come out of Lenin and Stalin does no more to redeem the unsustainability of the "Russia that we lost" than Putin's heavy-handed regime today does to redeem Yeltsin's all-too-familiar criminal incompetence in the time that this movie was made. Nor do the post-Soviet disasters do anything to redeem the crimes of the Soviet regime. Whether it's imperial Russia, communist Russia, or today's Russia, it's a sad and difficult place all the same. The real difference is that the Russia of 100 years ago had yet to live through most of the massive historical trauma that the 20th century had in store for it. Of course it's easy to look back and imagine yourself without all those historical scars, without the baggage of the World Wars and communist rule. It's easy to say "we didn't deserve this", but the fact is that the disaster was waiting to happen. It turned out a lot worse than it could've been, but no amount of trying to keep things the same would've averted it.

Otherwise it's great that the movie asks a lot of good questions, and shows scenes that for 70 years, noone really had a chance to freely examine. But it's not a Russia anyone should really miss. And while it offers valuable clues to how Russia (and any other country) should NOT be like, it doesn't really offer any good ways out of Russia's recurring cycle of tragedy. Maybe because really there isn't and can't be a Russia without this ongoing social, economic, political, and cultural tragedy.
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Otherwise, all this talk of the eternal "Russian tragedy" and how misguided it is to simply romanticize our past reminds me of one of my favourite DDT videos, titled "Heaven on Earth":


It nails the heart of this problem in a way that no amount of academic discussion ever will
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Old 11-21-11, 08:43 PM   #159
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The Russia we lost:



face it, Russia (Soviet Union) was better off under Communism than it is now
Also, Communist Party of Russian Federation (KPRF) 2nd largest Party of Russia if not 1st

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Really?
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The Russia we lost:

I usually ignore trolls, so I'll tell you once.

Please leave my thread.
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Old 11-21-11, 09:09 PM   #162
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Awesome! Cuz, you know, this went so well the last time.
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The real questions are "who/what is Russia?" and "what's 'better'?" And there's not really any easy answers to that. In some ways, yeah, it was better. In some ways, it was a lot worse.

One thing for sure, waving the banner of a government that killed anywhere between 20 and 50 million of its own citizens is at least irresponsible. And if there's a way forward for Russia out of where it is now, it ain't through more of that. The USSR is a loss, but in the same way as Tsarist Russia - it's a loss that needed to happen. It was a system mired in anxiety and cracking at the seams, and more importantly, a system that was paranoid and repressive all the way till the end.
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Really?
Yes, and most of the citizens inside former communist countries who are living there now, will say life was better under communism.

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I see, so the thread is not reserved for pictures or video replies or anything that is against what you posted or you disagree with. You say you ignore "trolls" yet you ignored CCIP's long descriptive post so you think he's a troll? Yet you respond to me and telling to leave the forum. I'm not saying Soviet Union was perfect but it is certainly better than the conditions present in today's Russia, and far better than it ever was in the Tsarists Monarchy. Also, the collapse of the Soviet Union was major offset for world revolutionaries and their struggles against Western Imperialism, though the tide is turning today against the present hegemony.
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Yes, and most of the citizens inside former communist countries who are living there now, will say life was better under communism.
I already know for a fact that this isn't true. And I am going to ask again: Where are you from? Everyone that I know who has lived in one of these nations and under one of these regimes is happy to be out of there.

But, if you long for the good old days of purges, plots, mass deportations, forced collectivization, and social repression, then I won't try to dissuade you. Still, even Lenin thought that Stalin was a monster. Holding him up as a model of what the world needs today would be laughable if I didn't know that you meant every bit of that.
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