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MothBalls · 08-27-09, 04:57 PM

I'll chime in here because of personal experience.

In the 60's in the US, we were basically fed propaganda telling us Big Bad Ivan wanted to take over the world, communism was going to enslave all of us if we didn't die in a Russian mushroom cloud first. They showed us pictures of old Russian women in scarves standing in line for bread and cheese in the freezing snow, showed pictures of Russian coal miners covered in soot and told us this was what the average worker looked like. When I was in the military, we trained to fight against our enemy, the Russians. I was taught Russian in the Army because they were our enemy.

In later life while working in corporate America, I had the opportunity to travel to Russia and work with them on some joint projects. (Enron and Gazprom) First hand I learned that all of the propaganda was just that. BS made up by fear mongering politicians to justify our military industrial complex.

I was also told by Russian people my own age that they too were fed the same propaganda, that they would be enslaved and exploited by capitalist pigs. They were shown pictures of tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and told this was a typical life in America.

As for the country, Moscow is probably one of the most beautiful cities in the world. I've been there three times and look forward to going back again. The people there were no different than anywhere else in the world. There's good and bad in every crowd, but that is the same all over the world.

I did find that the women were exceptionally beautiful and took really good care of themselves. I later learned the reason this is part of their society is because of WWII, so many men were lost and the women were in strong competition for husbands.

Now that I'm older it much easier to see the truth. A great country, a rich culture with a long history of accomplishments, tarnished by the wrong people in power. The general population were forced to suffer through decades of hardship through no fault of their own. most of them are just like any normal person. They just want to live a good life, in peace, and wish the same for everyone else.

People all over the world are good, it's the damn governments that can't get along.

08-27-09, 04:57 PM	#13
MothBalls Ace of the Deep Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,012 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	I'll chime in here because of personal experience. In the 60's in the US, we were basically fed propaganda telling us Big Bad Ivan wanted to take over the world, communism was going to enslave all of us if we didn't die in a Russian mushroom cloud first. They showed us pictures of old Russian women in scarves standing in line for bread and cheese in the freezing snow, showed pictures of Russian coal miners covered in soot and told us this was what the average worker looked like. When I was in the military, we trained to fight against our enemy, the Russians. I was taught Russian in the Army because they were our enemy. In later life while working in corporate America, I had the opportunity to travel to Russia and work with them on some joint projects. (Enron and Gazprom) First hand I learned that all of the propaganda was just that. BS made up by fear mongering politicians to justify our military industrial complex. I was also told by Russian people my own age that they too were fed the same propaganda, that they would be enslaved and exploited by capitalist pigs. They were shown pictures of tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and told this was a typical life in America. As for the country, Moscow is probably one of the most beautiful cities in the world. I've been there three times and look forward to going back again. The people there were no different than anywhere else in the world. There's good and bad in every crowd, but that is the same all over the world. I did find that the women were exceptionally beautiful and took really good care of themselves. I later learned the reason this is part of their society is because of WWII, so many men were lost and the women were in strong competition for husbands. Now that I'm older it much easier to see the truth. A great country, a rich culture with a long history of accomplishments, tarnished by the wrong people in power. The general population were forced to suffer through decades of hardship through no fault of their own. most of them are just like any normal person. They just want to live a good life, in peace, and wish the same for everyone else. People all over the world are good, it's the damn governments that can't get along.