Other Russia...

[shaddragon]

I'm going through a politics-and-history jag. Bear with me.

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[geloe]

Russia, as far as I've been watching, is a very strange, uncomfortable place right now, for all its "We're lovely" posturing. (Oof, those campaign commercials. They make me cringe.) Journalist killing. Exploding "the mother of all bombs," apparently. Really shouldering into international politics, where they basically hadn't been for a while. I can't help but find Putin a bit scary, given Russia's history (granted, they have every right and reason to be a paranoid bunch

[shaddragon]

To me, those commercials reverberate with 1984, which is a scary, scary thought. The sense I got of Gorbachev and Yeltsin seemed a lot less slimy and a lot more sane-- but I also don't know much Russian history.

[geloe]

I'm trying to figure out a joke to make over the fact that a Russian company now owns Livejournal. Failing.