Godwynn
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What do you like about Russia (history and present)?
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Tahuti
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What I like about Russia is that gives a steady supply of villians in lowbrow works of fiction. The Vladimir Putin memes. And of course, the various great Russian authors, like Fyodor Dostoyevski.
Not to mention Nival Interactive and Sergei Eisenstein.
Not to mention Nival Interactive and Sergei Eisenstein.
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By space I mean outer space. But they have a lot of space too.
Domen
Misico dux Vandalorum
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Domen
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I generally find Russian authors are the most overrated, with their works being irrelevant and boring.
Second place in the Space Race.
More deaths by alcoholism than any other country.
Their presumption that they're still a superpower.
Their utter failure to implement democracy.
Being a constant example for the rest of the world that the American way is the best way.
These are all things I like about Russia
Second place in the Space Race.
More deaths by alcoholism than any other country.
Their presumption that they're still a superpower.
Their utter failure to implement democracy.
Being a constant example for the rest of the world that the American way is the best way.
These are all things I like about Russia
Russia(ns) made some of the biggest contributions to mankind in many fields, specially music and literature, but also science. And strogonoff, of course. Where would I be without that during my college years??
There's a lot to like about Russia. It's a grand country.
There's a lot to like about Russia. It's a grand country.
BvBPL
Pour Decision Maker
Caviar, ballet, The Nose, Master and Margarita, Love and Death, Happy People, The Cherry Orchard, and plenty of music as well as other books and plays.
Russia got to space first... And the first dog, man, and woman in space...
I used to have a far more positive opinion of Dostoevsky, but in the end i became of the view that while he had many ideas to present, his literary style often becomes very bad, or even unusually bad for a known author. I now mostly like some of his shorter works, such as The Dream of a Ridiculous man. Notes from the Underground was also a breakthrough for him, but i also think it is in essense less good than it was promoted to be by many authors since then (for one thing the main plot in the surface of the story is a person who thinks himself as disgusting, and tries to make others feel bad or affected by his self-image as well).
The other, shorter, story i mentioned has a number of more interesting points, including the dream-journey into deep-space, to an archipelago of jovial beings.
I have read most of his main novels (The brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, the Idiot, Possessed etc), and in retrospect they always contained huge passages of poor writing. And while this could be to a large degree a failure of the translator, i have read that many others have noted this issue with Dostoevsky. And, lastly, his obsession with viewing christianity as a refuge from chaos is another negative (in my view) ever-present element of his work..
Apart from Gogol, i think that there were many "over-hyped" in retrospect authors in the 19th century Russian literature, which founded its fame. Some other works did have very impressive core-ideas, or passages (Tolstoy's The death of Ivan Illich contains perhaps one of the darkest prolonged metaphors in all of literature), but i rarely like most of the stories by the rest of those authors, such as Chechov.
However that literature is still very clearly one of the major European ones, and of Global importance.
Evie
Pronounced like Eevee
There's a fable somewhere about a hare and a turtle, that's rather applicable to Russia, America and the Space Race...
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
They certainly acquitted themselves quite well during the Olympics. But based on the comments during the NBC coverage, the Cold War continues to exist in the minds of many people, just as it does in this forum.
Tycho Brahe
Emperor
I like that Putin is turning Russia back into the enemy of the free world and democracy, the strong military power that bullys smaller countries next to it.
It's so nice to have a clear and simple enemy image. Ah, like the good old days.
It's so nice to have a clear and simple enemy image. Ah, like the good old days.
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
Thanks for helping to make my point.
Kennigit
proud 2 boxer
I'm pretty ignorant of history, but Russia did contribute a lot to scientific progress, for better or for worse. Both in terms of cold war weaponry development, etc, and just the fact that Russia had a lot of rockets explode during takeoff. Let the Russians mess things up first.
Actually, I guess I've never really heard discussion of Russian development of modern electronics and computational codes. It seems after a brief few minutes on wikipedia they have strong contributions in more the early days of electronics/communications (eg like transformers) but I don't know about the cold war era development (1940s-1990s).
Because they obviously made many strides in nuclear technologies, aerospace and aeronautics, fusion, fluid mechanics and stuff [I'm assuming; a lot of fluid work is with aerospace], physics, and math.
Actually, I guess I've never really heard discussion of Russian development of modern electronics and computational codes. It seems after a brief few minutes on wikipedia they have strong contributions in more the early days of electronics/communications (eg like transformers) but I don't know about the cold war era development (1940s-1990s).
Because they obviously made many strides in nuclear technologies, aerospace and aeronautics, fusion, fluid mechanics and stuff [I'm assuming; a lot of fluid work is with aerospace], physics, and math.
