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Post by alienatedd on Sept 8, 2021 20:57:00 GMT
That's a terrible translation in that video. Thank you for telling us the true meaning of the words. I know almost nothing about Russia and the Russians. When I lived in Beijing I met several and they were very passionate people who often drank heavily--I figured there were reasons for that. This one Russian guy bought a VCR (it was the early 90s) and constantly played a Bananarama video in his dorm room--I'd hear it whenever I walked passed his doorway. I was told all the Russians were buying TVs and VCRs. I felt particularly sorry for a couple of gay Russian men I met because the institutionalized homophobia was relentless--same as in China. What intrigues me is the role of Russians in esoteric and metaphysical explorations. Some of the most formidable occultists on our planet have been Russians, but little is known of this in the West apart from tired jokes about Helena P. Blavatsky and Gurdjieff. I know Middoth thinks it's all mumbo-jumbo but I would like to learn more, someday. Much of what I know comes from occultists who have been artists, especially painters and composers. H. What interesting stories. But we say that what was in the 90s, it remained in the 90s. We try not to remember these times, when we tried something new out of ignorance and inexperience, when the iron Curtain of the USSR fell. I can talk to you with pleasure, but I think outside of this forum. After all, I just wanted to find an electronic version of the book on this forum.
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Post by helrunar on Sept 8, 2021 22:38:36 GMT
I read Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita at some point in the early 1980s but do not remember much beyond how fascinating it was. So, that's another minor knowledge of Russian culture. Also, a lifelong love for the music of Skryabin which I think is not so widely admired today in the Russian Federation.
H.
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Post by alienatedd on Sept 9, 2021 9:59:33 GMT
I read Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita at some point in the early 1980s but do not remember much beyond how fascinating it was. So, that's another minor knowledge of Russian culture. Also, a lifelong love for the music of Skryabin which I think is not so widely admired today in the Russian Federation. H. I may surprise you, but I am the owner of this rare surname - Bulgakov. But I am not a relative of this writer)) And he is an interesting writer with a difficult fate. Many of his works were banned in the USSR. On my avatar is the same Bulgakov
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Post by Middoth on Sept 9, 2021 13:30:36 GMT
Many of his works were banned in the USSR.
"Although his novel The White Guard had made him one of Stalin's favourite writers, he nonetheless remained a persecuted figure in the 1930s"
"a play that became the favourite of Joseph Stalin"
"Stalin's favor protected Bulgakov from arrests and execution"
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Post by helrunar on Sept 9, 2021 13:30:59 GMT
That's fascinating to know that you are also Bulgakov. I figured your photo was of somebody Russian and famous from the old days.
American culture, such as it is, exists more or less in despite of the staggering banality and turpitude of the US government and social order. Maybe it's a similar situation in Mother Russia.
Best wishes, Hel
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 24, 2022 18:48:14 GMT
Then we never heard from our Russian friend again.
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Post by alienatedd on Mar 28, 2022 16:33:11 GMT
Then we never heard from our Russian friend again. What do you want to hear?
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 28, 2022 16:43:24 GMT
Then we never heard from our Russian friend again. What do you want to hear? So much has happened since we last spoke.
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Post by alienatedd on Mar 28, 2022 16:54:45 GMT
So much has happened since we last spoke. Something tells me that it will not do without geopolitics here.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 28, 2022 17:12:07 GMT
Not to mention that we have not heard from "Middoth" recently. If he is still alive and well, I am sure you two would have a lot to talk about.
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Post by alienatedd on Mar 28, 2022 17:20:38 GMT
I have no problem talking about geopolitics and what the Russians think about the special operation in Ukraine. Just not in this topic. Here, after all, I was looking for books. )) If anyone wants to discuss, then I am at your service, but it is necessary to create a separate topic for this. I really am not sure if it is possible to communicate on such topics on such a forum, suddenly they will still be banned.))
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 28, 2022 17:38:03 GMT
I am sure any topic is fine here, with the exception of kitchens, but considering that you could, as I understand it, get a 15-year prison sentence for saying the wrong thing about the, ahem, "special operation," it seems unlikely we would get anything interesting out of you.
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Post by alienatedd on Mar 28, 2022 17:47:37 GMT
I am sure any topic is fine here, with the exception of kitchens, but considering that you could, as I understand it, get a 15-year prison sentence for saying the wrong thing about the, ahem, "special operation," it seems unlikely we would get anything interesting out of you. You are simply not ready to hear information alternative to your media. By the way, I live near the border with Ukraine, so I know about all this firsthand. There are a lot of refugees from the city of Mariupol in my city.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 28, 2022 17:58:10 GMT
What I meant was that I am already familiar with the official view of the Russian regime.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Mar 28, 2022 19:36:41 GMT
Not to mention that we have not heard from "Middoth" recently. If he is still alive and well, I am sure you two would have a lot to talk about. Jojo please unblock me for a moment, so I can tell you about Middoth in a message. You can then block me again.
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