List a couple of things you like about Russia.

Sequoia

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Fri Sep-12-08 01:33 PM
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List a couple of things you like about Russia.

Dmitri Shostakovich

The Nutcracker Suite

Doctor Zhivago

Ushanka hats

The people

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Taverner

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Fri Sep-12-08 01:35 PM
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1. Baltika Porter

Russian Women

The People

The Architecture

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MrCoffee

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Fri Sep-12-08 01:39 PM
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2. The Best Mail-Order Brides in the World

Take that, Bulgaria!

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quip

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Fri Sep-12-08 01:42 PM
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5. Their mafia could teach ours a thing or two as well!

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Fri Sep-12-08 01:41 PM
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3. Fascinating history, great hockey, cool movies, and it's cold.

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Ava

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Fri Sep-12-08 01:42 PM
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4. if i remember correctly from the euro 2008

there are some members of the russian national team that ain't too shabby looking :7

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NewJeffCT

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Fri Sep-12-08 01:44 PM
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6. Felicity Fey

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LostInAnomie

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Fri Sep-12-08 09:53 PM
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36. Yeah, she's a looker.

*winks*

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NewJeffCT

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Sat Sep-13-08 08:54 AM
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43. well, the link doesn't work anymore

so, here's another.

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Fri Sep-12-08 01:47 PM
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7. Stanislavski, Constructivism, Vodka and their Nazi Killing abilities

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flvegan

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Fri Sep-12-08 01:51 PM
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8. Yulia Volkova

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Bunny

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Fri Sep-12-08 01:55 PM
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9. In the US, you can catch a cold. In Soviet Russia, cold catches you!

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charlie and algernon

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Fri Sep-12-08 01:55 PM
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10. 1812 Overture

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LeftinOH

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Fri Sep-12-08 01:58 PM
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11. Sergei Prokofiev; Eastern Orthodox ecclesiastical artchitecture

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Gidney N Cloyd

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Fri Sep-12-08 02:01 PM
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12. Salad dressing.

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ghostsofgiants

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Fri Sep-12-08 02:02 PM
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13. Andrei Tarkovsky

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FloridaJudy

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Fri Sep-12-08 02:05 PM
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14. Pelmeni

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBbXvj6Y8ow

Eisenstein

Tchaikovsky

Chekhov (the playwright and the ST character)

Painted lacquer boxes

My mother

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Sequoia

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Fri Sep-12-08 03:10 PM
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15. Star Trek !!

Natalie Wood was Russian. You're mom, huh? Great.

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JCMach1

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Fri Sep-12-08 03:12 PM
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16. The Food!

Had some SCRUMMY Russian food in Armenia

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Swede

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Fri Sep-12-08 03:14 PM
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19. I went to a Russian restaurant in Calgary.

The food was fantastic.

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DS1

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Fri Sep-12-08 03:13 PM
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17. All the cool movies and TV shows the Cold War brought us

Vodka
Irina Shaykhlislarnova

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Sequoia

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Fri Sep-12-08 03:14 PM
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18. Hey, who put that Russian girls ad in here.

Where's the dudes?

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Tikki

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Fri Sep-12-08 03:17 PM
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20. Jewelry....

:) Tikki

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Aristus

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Fri Sep-12-08 03:21 PM
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21. The Russians.

The Russian people are amazing. They're brave, tough, stoic. They are patriotic in a way we can't even begin to imagine. Despite their reputation for being a dour, unsmiling people, I've known a number of recent Russian immigrants who had a wonderful, if very, very dry, sense of humour. The Russians are a great people who are the way they are from having to endure 500 years of really awful leadership.

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Fri Sep-12-08 03:24 PM
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22. Yeah.

I have often noted that the pity of Russia is that the Russian people have never really had a leader worthy of them.

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BeachBaby

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Fri Sep-12-08 03:25 PM
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23. They're the inspiration behind Boris and Natasha.

Their accents rawk!

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mwooldri

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Fri Sep-12-08 03:44 PM
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24. VODKA!!!! nt

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BeachBaby

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Fri Sep-12-08 04:13 PM
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25. Uncle Joe, is that you?

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mwooldri

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Fri Sep-12-08 05:05 PM
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27. Na, it's me, Boris. nt

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jeff30997

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Fri Sep-12-08 05:19 PM
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30. Boris who?

Boris Kibizniz. :)

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mwooldri

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Fri Sep-12-08 09:45 PM
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32. Yeltsin, don't you remember me?

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jeff30997

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Fri Sep-12-08 09:58 PM
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38. Ah! Da!

Mr Vodka! :)

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guitar man

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Fri Sep-12-08 04:16 PM
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26. teh women are teh hawtness!!!1!!11!!

I'm series!!!11!!1!! :D

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chicagoexpat

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Fri Sep-12-08 05:07 PM
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28. Russian Models! I'd like to invade a few of these...

Edited on Fri Sep-12-08 05:08 PM by chicagoexpat

http://www.rususa.com/photo/russian-models.asp

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jeff30997

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Fri Sep-12-08 05:17 PM
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29. Invade then...

Drill for oil? :P

Me? I would be happy to just hug and kiss Maria Sharapova.:blush:

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matcom

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Fri Sep-12-08 05:21 PM
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31. you can see it from an island in Alaska

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Redstone

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Fri Sep-12-08 09:47 PM
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33. The people are fine, I'm sure, but as a country I'll never get over my loathing of them.

Redstone

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leftyclimber

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Fri Sep-12-08 09:48 PM
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34. Only a couple?

The food

The music

The ballet

Modern acting theory

Pushkin

The literature

The architecture

The humor

Nikolai Gogol

must I go on?

-- lefty the russophile

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crim son

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Fri Sep-12-08 09:49 PM
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35. The furniture of Catherine the Great.

I want me an armchair!

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pitohui

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Fri Sep-12-08 09:54 PM
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37. okay here goes

Edited on Fri Sep-12-08 09:54 PM by pitohui

the people --. v. outgoing and have the gamble in them

one of my siblings -- speaks great russian and can lead me around so it's effortless for me

only 2? hmm, afraid to say any more then

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MrMickeysMom

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Fri Sep-12-08 10:37 PM
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39. My adopted grandson is from there

We're so happy to have him in our lives! Had my son waited that much longer, he and his wife would not have had the same friendly circumstance. Hope it returns to that after these assholes leave office.

Oh, bonus answer: you can't see the Palin's house from there.

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zanne

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Fri Sep-12-08 10:41 PM
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40. The music, the ballet, the literature and the architecture. nt

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Lydia Leftcoast

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Fri Sep-12-08 10:43 PM
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41. First of all, their music, both classical and folk

and their dancing, both ballet and folk.

I also like a lot of their literature, and their language is fascinating, too, although difficult.

The Russian Orthodox Church has a deep spirituality and beautiful rituals, although they can get legalistic.

Much of their food is very, very good.

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jakefrep

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Fri Sep-12-08 11:31 PM
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42. Cyrillic Script

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EstimatedProphet

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Sat Sep-13-08 09:14 AM
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44. It's next to Sarah Palin!

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Swede

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Sat Sep-13-08 08:20 PM
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56. She can see it from her house.

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The Inquisitive

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Sat Sep-13-08 02:47 PM
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45. In Soviet Russia, Russia names things it likes about you!

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Sat Sep-13-08 03:07 PM
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46. Constructivist graphic design.

The bestest. Plus the Soviet Army map case I used as a purse for many years.

MPK

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tigereye

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Sat Sep-13-08 03:15 PM
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47. great art?

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crimsonblue

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Sat Sep-13-08 03:17 PM
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48. In Soviet Russia...

things like about you.

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Orsino

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Sat Sep-13-08 06:49 PM
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49. They're close to Alaska, so they have foreign-policy experience.

Russia should be Vice President.

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BlueIris

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Sat Sep-13-08 06:54 PM
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50. Its deep cultural appreciation of poetry. Its complex and beautiful language, which

baffled me for three years in college. Dostoyevsky. Anna Akmahtova. Putin. (So sue me; he's keeping us from invading Iran right now.)

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YellowRubberDuckie

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Sat Sep-13-08 06:58 PM
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51. I am fascinated by their history.

Peter the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Rasputin.
The art, the sporting events, the architecture.
I never get tired of reading, listening and learning about their history.
Duckie

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mwb970

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Sat Sep-13-08 07:30 PM
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52. The girl in Tatu...

...and the other girl in Tatu.

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JVS

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Sat Sep-13-08 07:40 PM
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54. rocking picture!

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JVS

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Sat Sep-13-08 07:39 PM
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53. A tradition of commitment to the liberation of the working class

Reliable space-flight equipment

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gblady

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Sat Sep-13-08 07:47 PM
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55. Pictures of

St. Petersburg!

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libnnc

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Sat Sep-13-08 08:22 PM
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57. I love and respect the Russian people's intense love of poetry

They're mad for it.

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Sat Sep-13-08 09:38 PM
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58. Peter Kropotkin!

Russia has produced some fine anti-authoritarians: Bakunin pushed the frontier forward quite a bit. But Prince Kropotkin, who voluntarily renounced considerable privilege and dedicated his life to the pursuit of liberty for all is one of my favorite-est heroes of all.

-app

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Sat Sep-13-08 09:47 PM
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59. Baltika beer, the language, St. Petersburg,

Soviet art (1917-1967), Mayakovsky, Akhmatova, Lermontov, Krasnodar, Baltika beer, the language...I lived there, and I miss it.

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Mutley

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Sat Sep-13-08 09:52 PM
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60. I know I like the people.

We have a lot of Russians working here, and all of them are very nice and hard-working people.

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Amerigo Vespucci

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Sat Sep-13-08 10:01 PM
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61. The looks on the faces in the crowd during Paul McCartney's "In Red Square" concert

In the U.S., if we want to go to a concert, we buy the tickets and go...just one more thing that we can do freely, without giving it a second thought.

I prefer the "Live In St. Petersburg" bonus concert on the DVD, primarily because it features a pretty cool version of "Back In The USSR," but the whole DVD is worth owning. McCartney catches a lot of crap for filming the audience during his concert films, but on this one, it's the high point. Pure, unrestrained joy on face after face after face.

:toast:

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friedgreentomatoes

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Sat Sep-13-08 11:32 PM
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62. The

national women's volleyball team

vodka

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MsTryska

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Sat Sep-13-08 11:35 PM
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63. they do fantastic things with beets

and potatoes.

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ThoughtCriminal

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Sat Sep-13-08 11:46 PM
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64. 3CP1 Television

Don't touch that dial, Americans! We have program for you!

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Sun Sep-14-08 12:17 AM
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65. Did anyone say vodka?

:rofl:

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Sun Sep-14-08 12:25 AM
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66. early 20th century experiments in color photography

Edited on Sun Sep-14-08 12:25 AM by fishwax

Russian photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky achieved color photographs before WWI using a series of colored plates for each photograph. I've always found them fascinating. (A link to more photographs: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/)

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Sun Sep-14-08 12:32 AM
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67. Sergei Eisenstein.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Eisenstein

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