Reminds me of one of my favorite Putin jokes. "So Perestroika and Glasnost walk into a bar and die from Polonium 210 poisoning."Narcunknown said:American, but drinks tea and has buttered scones.
Really? Gorbachav gave me the opposite feeling... like he wanted to almost be U.S. with all that perestrioka and glasnost stuff.Russian_Assassin said:from Russia without love. Seriously, we hate you! Just kidding!Or am I?
I'm an American, but I do love Russians though, and Russia and it's history in general. Probably stems from the fact that my great grandparents emigrated from Russia to Canada and then to America, so it's a relatively recent split that my family has had with Russia. The fact that my great great grandfather died during the October Revolution. He got hit with an axe in the back because he was a game warden for Czar Nicholas II, rode his horse all the way home before he finally collapsed. Another fun fact, my great great grandmothers sister went to Canada with her, didn't like the country and went back to Russia. She and her husband were detained at the docks when they arrived, taken to a field, shot, and buried in a shallow grave because they were traitors. Still, we've got quite a bit of history in Russia, and I'd really love to visit, especially Lake Baikal. Trying to learn the language, but the difference between the Latin alphabet and the Cyrillic alphabet is a little hard to get used to.
