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Maria Kondorskaya

Linguist, [very] professional Content writer, Russian (and even Soviet), Muscovite, patriot, internationalist. Passive aggressive, vivacious pessimist, optimist with a morbid sense of humor. Made in the USSR in 1982. Check my YT channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_YcTuSSPzGanp9_z36pw4w (in Russian) Find my on VK: https://vk.com/id669206535

Civilization Cancels Fruits of Culture

June 18, 2022June 11, 2022 by Maria Kondorskaya

Only a civilization can fall low enough to start cancelling cultures. Civilization is about ranging people, objects, events, etc., and this concept implies silos, limits and inequalities by default. Culture is about growth, and it is boundless.

Categories Commentaries Tags cancel_culture, Globalism, Nazism 6 Comments

Oligarchy vs. Colony for Dummies

May 27, 2022 by Maria Kondorskaya

I keep hearing that Russia is [just another] oligarchy. The main argument is that there are [VERY] rich people in Russia. True, though compared to Elon Musk or Bill Gates they are beggars. But are they oligarchs in the proper sense of the word? I don’t think so. Maybe they were proxy rulers with limited authority. I’ll try to explain.

Categories Commentaries Tags Globalism, politics, Russia 18 Comments

Green Money for a Green World, or Another Scam?

May 26, 2022May 26, 2022 by Maria Kondorskaya

I’ve never been a crypto enthusiast. Now I’m a crypto skeptic. How so? Well, I’ve seen several projects inside, I followed several cases and I watch the news (a bit too much). And here is what I now think about the promised land of decentralization, Web 3.0 and tokenomics.

Categories Commentaries Tags crypto, NFT, Russia, tokenomics 7 Comments
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