An American tourist in Russia
Hi everybody, I’ve been told you miss me. Do you? I thought my posts are boring and irrelevant. I have nothing much to say about the war or politics. I have one of the most humanitarian degrees possible: languages. Yet, here I am back to talk about racial and economic issues. My post is inspired … Read more
Hi there, I know you missed me a lot (ok, maybe you didn’t). I’ve been recently active on Quora (please, follow here), but I cannot let you miss on my precious content. So here is a potpourri of some longer posts and replies I made there recently and consider worth sharing. Question (original spelling and … Read more
Many people ask what was the benefit of the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the USSR. Here I will attempt an answer. The single most serious threat to Russia, both as a state and as an ethnicity, is a unified western Europe. Luckily for Russians, Europeans are usually too busy killing each other to ever unify properly against Russia. Whenever one European power gets strong enough to lead a coalition to ethnically cleanse Russia, another European power stabs them in the back. The picture I show above is a good example of this.
Before I start, let me clarify something: there is no specific economic concept that I wholeheartedly support and I don’t consider myself a communist. On the other hand, capitalism has proved to be less than perfect, to put it mildly. Truth is probably elsewhere or in between. Let’s start with my brand new axiom (it … Read more
In 1916, entrepreneur Clarence Saunders invented America’s first self-service grocery store, a truly revolutionary idea that swept across the country and then the world. Now, a little over a century later, the American self-service grocery store is dying, but not for a reason anyone could have predicted.