benji wrote: don't know if economics is the motivation for Russia (One of the G8 countries after all! I'll ignore they just whined until they got in...) to re-establish its influence in the region. I think it could be a side benefit of that re-establishment of influence. (Not that Russia has ever loved Israel or Jews, let alone the West.)
u right about economics, and it is on the rise now with president Putin V.V. (the best president of Russia ever), but what about Jews - there are thousands of jews in Russia, and the only man, that didn't love them was Stalin.
we have a lot of very powerfull and mighty jews with politic power, and multimillionaires - Roman Abramovich (chelsea owner, SibNeft owner (one of the biggest oil corporation, gouvernor of the Chukotka, 42 age)), Khadarkhovsky (GazProm), Djirinovsky (leader of the LDPR political party) and many - many others!
Joe wrote: You're shocked? I'm the one that's shocked that Russia still hides history as it happened and keeps fooling its own people.
u know, i hate communism, and 90% of the russians too, and the government policy about "hiding" facts from the community is in the past! and now all things clean enought. but our discussion is useless cuz i know real facts about my native country, and u know facts that have been whrighte in your's books! thats all, no more talks bout that! every one of us has he's oun truth!
Joe wrote:And you explained that in your posts? All I really got is that Russian kids are taught Russia is and has always been a great country, and that the Communists are at fault for everything bad that's happened to it.
I'm sorry, I might agree on the fact that Russia could turn out to be a great country someday and that the Soviet Union harmed the Russian people, but I disagree on this.
Also, great countries aren't determined by its people's feelings, especially if those feelings include extreme nationalism.
yeah it always haven't been easy to live in Russia, but as Putin comes (already 8 years, in february 2008 gonna be a new president) pople begin to leave much better. i mean a LOT better. i won't wasting my time to tell u things, that have been spoken before, and u doen't understand it, u understand only facts, that's all! it's easier to make monkey smoke, that make u understand the truth about our country, but i think, u don't need it at all, so i'm outa this mess, not gonna post so huge posts!