Comments on: “Most Russians do not love Putin per se, but they love Putin’s Russia.”

By: "Text to speech"

"Text to speech" — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:33:43 +0000

I am an ideologue? Or is it because blaming Gaidar for all ills is something you hear from every corner in Russia? For peet’s sake, use Occum Razor when it is available.

By: Cyrill

Cyrill — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:45:22 +0000

Don’t try to slide it Chris. This particular one has nothing to do with my views. It has everything to do with your precondition that allows you to accept an urban myth that somehow a prime minister can single handedly ruin a country because he did not understand “distribution system”.

As for your use of third person singular and space ponies, you are beginning to employ methods of your own arch nemesis – Averko.

By: Chrisius Maximus

Chrisius Maximus — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:28:17 +0000

Occum [sic] Razor = magic space pony.

What makes Cyrill so unintentionally funny is the way that, on the one hand, his views on Russians and Americans are utterly marginal and believed in by very small numbers of Russians and Americans, respectively, while, on the other hand, he trumpets them as if they were obvious and only a moron would not see them. It’s almost Larouchian in its level of self-delusion.

By: ivanov

ivanov — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:43:19 +0000

“blaming Gaidar for all ills is something you hear from every corner in Russia? For peet’s sake, use Occum Razor when it is available.”

Cyrill, I hope you are not suggesting Chrius to cut Gaidar’s throat with бритва?

PS. About import, ВЦСПС and food storage – later.

By: Cyrill

Cyrill — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:23:16 +0000

Oh really? You buy an ideologically charged BS that somehow a prime minister is responsible for failure of a food distribution system in any country and I am an ideologue? Or is it because blaming Gaidar for all ills is something you hear from every corner in Russia? For peet’s sake, use Occum Razor when it is available.

By: Chrius Maximus

Chrius Maximus — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:12:19 +0000

“Chris, I am surprised you would fall such an obvious load of BS.”

You’re such a predictable ideologue.

By: Chrius Maximus

Chrius Maximus — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:47:54 +0000

Depeche Mode definitely comes umder the class of luxury goods.

By: Tim Newman

Tim Newman — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:46:02 +0000

Ah yes, the food imports! Forgot.

Don’t forget the knock-off Depeche Mode tapes.

By: Cyrill

Cyrill — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:39:22 +0000

Ivanov, you presume too much. I lived in Moscow and Leningrad. But I worked as an interpreter for ВЦСПС and took delegations around. Anyway, are you denying USSR was actually purchasing all of what I mentined?

By: Chrius Maximus

Chrius Maximus — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:30:42 +0000

“Yeah, food was a real luxury those days…”

Ah yes, the food imports! Forgot.