Sveta grabbed a taxi, because Sammy has an issue still in the drive line and took about 70 kilos of potatoes to the family. Sveta is trying to get a video for Pro-Babushka (про бабушка), her mother, Sveta is now babushka (бабушка) of the family…
Babushka is grandma and pro-babushka is great grandma, for those interested about Russia…
Potatoes are only 12 to 15 rubles per kilo, yet village grown are the desired when available. I was not going to grow them next year, now I will rethink that plan. If the family is happy, I will oblige…
Always nice to be appreciated when you do something for others. makes you want to do it again and again. Even if I cannot eat the potatoes that I grow due to my diabetes…
Except, I really cannot also eat a torte: But I will! 😉
WtR
PS: Tidbit: What does WTR stand for on the internet?
Sammy the Volga is a great car. Not many left like her. An old Soviet car.
The day before we left the Tiny Russian Village Sammy got some last work done…
But we still have an issue and need to find a way to get her up in the air again. This is what is nice about the Tiny Russian Villages. Easy and cheap to find a spot to get a way to look at what is wrong. In Moscow it is hard to cheaply find a spot to get under her….the spot is at the hospital in the Big Village and it is first come first serve, so to say and free…
Water way, pipes under the surface of an old river. This is a main water supply for Moscow itself…
This morning in pitch darkness my Huawei Mate 30 takes an image that looks like I could actually see where I was going…
I can now that I see the image and as you can see, no one, but no one is around. I am good at finding the isolated spots in life….I could only see a bit of light in the distance as the sun was starting to peak above the horizon…
And getting around is easy if you accept that younger people have no idea about courtesy. It seems that all over the world we are neglecting to teach our youth in a general sense to have respect and courtesy for the elder as you go through life…
I am not saying that all youth are this way….but when you see someone walking your way and they are absorbed in their smartphone and or listening to music? They have lost the ability to comprehend their surroundings. Their minds are preoccupied with things other than reality. Okay, maybe that is their reality, yet it does not work when you should be paying attention to the surrounding world…
I walk and observe the people walking around me and I shift myself to paths that do not intersect the wayward mental midgets walking around…
I watched a young gal about 25 years old almost get hit by a car this morning. She was so absorbed in her smartphone that she stepped in a crosswalk that was red lighted for us to not cross and she walked straight into the flow of traffic. The driver saw her and lucky for all so did the dozen or more cars moving and everyone stopped and no death and or wrecks…
She even took two more steps, before she realized that she was in danger and her reaction was to freeze in place. The saying all is well that ends well fits this occasion…
This is not a one off happening. People are so absorbed in that smartphone and or the music blasting in their ears, that they do not see and hear anything around them…
It is getting worse as I watch the years go by…
Therefore, I watch these people and all people, if they have a faraway look about them and or they have their faces buried and at night a face that is lit up by a smartphone, you shift your pace and path to safely maneuver around them…
The pandemic has made me much more sensitive to how and why people react to their surroundings. I do not want anyone in my safe space and how close I allow them is whether they are alert and wear a mask…
They will simple walk right into you if you do not adjust….Muscovite’s are already non safe space ignorant. Mass transit overload has seen to that. Until you have experienced the Moscow Metro at peak hours and been crushed like sardines in a can, you will have a lack of understanding Russians and safe spaces. Russians do not know about staying out of your face…
They are learning, yet an eternity of history is hard to end in a few months and or years. The elder learn faster in this case. Old dogs can learn new tricks, I guess…
So I walked 7 kilometers this morning and met very few people. I enjoyed my walk and wished my sweetpea was with me. Sveta is at the grandkids and getting ready for great grandma’s birthday this weekend and I had to walk alone this morning…
I wear a mask the whole time, to buffer the mishaps with the ignorant smartphone sidewinders as I walk and it works, for me…
King Corona Covi-19 is partying hard in Moscow right now and I prefer to be safe. Whether it is real or not does not matter to me….mask is vital and besides, at -7 degrees, the mask is rather nice and warm to be truthful…
But Sveta and I know too many people who have had close calls with the virus and several will never be the same, if they live…
Another interesting thing I am seeing in the woods:
It is obvious to me that people in Moscow did not travel elsewhere like they use to in the past. Park benches have been built all around the local woods, fire pits everywhere, localized trash piles from parties, many many new paths, tons of cut wood, so many bird feeders and masks thrown away are the new McDonald’s wrappers of the past. It is a shame that used masks are not worth money; I would be rich, I find so many…
A glut of discarded single-use masks and gloves is washing up on shorelines and littering the seabed
Mask, Mask, everywhere a Mask
Blockin’ out the scenery, piling up fast
Don’t toss, don’t toss, can’t you see the Mask?
But, in the same token, broken bottles are almost gone, cigarette butts gone, druggy needles gone and fast food wrappers are literally history as trash in general is way down…
You do not have to agree with what I say and think. But you do need to realize that things are changing and that things are changing beyond our control as individuals. Societies are entities that grow as we as individuals grow. Societies are given birth and then all the stages that we ourselves go through as individuals….inevitably happen as a society grows up and matures…
China walks the walks and talks the talk of a huge mass society….Russia really tries to walk the walk and talk the talk, as all small societies do….The USA walks and whines as they cry foul all the time! Just as a teenager does when life sucks…
These three countries are all in very different circumstances of growth in their life cycles…
The main difference between the three countries is very simple!
It is called discipline: the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, using punishment to correct disobedience.
China with its 1.5 billion people have acquired “discipline” as a survival trait. Russians use to be disciplined Soviets and it is still embedded within the society by the elder and half way by its youth, yet they are small enough to flaunt discipline still. The USA has no discipline in any form anymore, due to its circumstances…
Good or bad in your eyes; Societies must have discipline to survive. In a case such as Russia vs China vs USA during King Corona Virus’s rein of terror; It shows forefront about the discipline of the society within their respective borders…
It also brings forth a stipulation about the size of population and what are the factors that happen when a population reaches a size that means past society regulations no longer meet the needs of the present?
Russia has land vastness and only around 150 million people to corral. While China has 1.5 billion people to corral. Yet we are watching the tipping point for the USA as it approaches 350 million people and the ensuing changes that have to be enacted when the population goes from “small town mentality to big city mentality” in size….China reached this point a very longtime ago and Russia has never reached that point yet…
Therefore, Russia has size of society as a benefit for now, China has walked the walk and talked the talk long ago. The USA use to be like Russia (In my lifetime the US has gone from small town to big city.), yet somehow lost that ability to walk the walk and talk the talk & decided that using a big stick is easier than corralling a fast and soon to be vast, growing society. The USA has terrible growing pains…
Pretty simple actually in reality…
Russia can still look the other way due to its circumstances (not enough people to overwhelm the system yet), the US has to accept the reality of new and necessary circumstances (The anachronistic system needs help.) and China simply has to keep doing what it has been doing. China long ago passed that 350 million human mark and dealt with the growing pains, long ago as a result…
Regardless; the only way forward is…
“When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.”
― Roy T. Bennett
Sadly:
There is no choice for the USA, but to change….because no one likes a floundering big baby, swinging a big stick and crying about how “you hurt him” as he beats on you! – me
If the USA wants to stay as it is, it must change its society discipline system. If it does not change? Then it must break up into smaller society systems. There is no other choice….Take the Chinese path and or become smaller more society controllable entities…
Good failed example: Look at the EU? Doesn’t work and should be put back as just the countries themselves. Europe is multiple entities, not one power entity…
Just doing some thinking today from Moscow, Russia…
Interesting: The best of the worst won and or did the best of the worse lose?
I find it unquestionably interesting that Trump would and or could have won, if he had done even one thing important, that he said he would do as he ran for president the first time in 2016. Yet so many ignored what he said he would do and latched upon anything he did do…
What he did do was all a nothing burger for the real America, but he did help Israel in a whole bunch of escapades that should have never been brought to the surface….Eg. moving the Israel embassy! (Trump should have run on MIGA not MAGA.)
Trump: No matter how you spin it. Lost the election because he failed to deliver even a tiny bit of important stuff he said he would. I mean stuff that makes a difference and then he hung himself out to dry as King Corona danced around the USA unhindered. Besides, the people left with a ample supply of brain cells left know that the US was caught in the crossfire of its King Corona escapade against China and it was not China against the USA…
Yet as millions have said: “If Trump had put the witch Hillary behind bars? If Trump had built the wall? If Trump had pulled out of all wars?” & If Trump and if Trump and if Trump had….He would have waltzed back into the White house!”
I find it just as interesting that Biden won:
Now we have someone? (Biden) who will employee Hillary, Obama and all the rest of the whatnot’s (I could see that John Bolton will be back in the saddle soon! Oh Lordy, Lordy Be, lets resurrect McCain!) to do exactly what “Trump said he would not do” and “he did do” anyway against what he ran upon in 2016 as promises that he would do and all that nothing burger becomes more icing on the proverbial burnt cake in the Empire Oven…
Trump and Biden both are losers in the soap opera called the USA…
You can think it is unfair? In 2016 there was so much wailing that the world thought the USA fell on a floor covered in broken glass….in 2020, everyone is breaking the glass and tossing it all around, on the floor, as they whine about everything but what is important….whining instead of wailing….not much difference really!
Both sides are tossing propaganda around like candy at a parade to the children and both sides hope you pick up that candy and eat it…
The USA is, as I have said for years on this blog, the most corrupt and (worse) psychotic nation on earth…
I am not shy about telling it like it is and a form of psychosis is not hindering the psychosis that is in your face and destroying you!
Someone who develops psychosis will have their own unique set of … are manipulative; often have a total disregard for the consequences of their actions. Psychosis is an abnormal condition of the mind that results in difficulties determining what is real and what is not real… That is America!
Maybe everyone could be saved if they all would agree to agree that the two men who ran for president of the US in 2020 are worthless and we need to start everything over to find someone worthy of being president of the USA?
Otherwise the circle of life is gonna slap us silly until we either stay in the bottom of the barrel and or we kill each other…
For so many presidential elections in the USA lately, the person who won only won because they are better than the trash they ran against. You can not find anyone who has won, who did not run against someone who was worth a hill of beans and the one who won was not worth a hill of beans…
Biden (Democrat) defeated Trump (Republican), Trump (Republican) defeated Hillary (Democrat), Barack Obama (Democrat) defeated Mitt Romney (Republican), Barack Obama (Democrat) defeated John McCain (Republican), George W. Bush (Republican) defeated John Kerry (Democrat), George W. Bush (Republican) defeated Al Gore (Democrat), Bill Clinton (Democrat) defeated Bob Dole (Republican), Bill Clinton (Democrat) defeated George H. W. Bush (Republican), Ronald Reagan (Republican) defeated Walter Mondale (Democrat), Ronald Reagan (Republican) defeated Jimmy Carter (Democrat), Jimmy Carter (Democrat) defeated Gerald Ford (Republican), Richard Nixon (Republican) defeated George McGovern (Democrat)….I listed 1972 to 2020…
You cannot find anyone in that list above who is worth the title of being president (winner and or loser) of the USA…
I did not vote for a single one of these people except Trump in 2016. The rest I voted independent and after voting for Trump one time….never again vote for Republican and or Democrat….I really hoped Trump was the real deal!
The rats are all sailing on the same ship and they all eat from the same pails and they all answer to the same owners…
Including Trump and Biden who just puppet danced the most pathetic election display in the history of the USA….and that says a lot!
Everything that the USA does and wants to do is always in hidden in full view. The reason we do not see the plans of attack are because we Americans are way to occupied to care; occupied by our own physical/financial/chaotic country and occupied by the constant barrage of propaganda 24 hours a day…
To understand you must look, see and read what is being put out. That is the problem; we only see what is controlled played across the screens of our life. Use to be TV and now Smartphones!
I read it and I see it as it is: “We (USA) are good and China is evil”:
I found it very much like a 1940s foreign-policy report by ex-US ambassador to the Soviet Union, George Kennan. Another propaganda and misplaced policy report…
This is the, “We (USA) are good and Soviets are evil” report:
The new fear mongering paper about China in a nutshell says:
1. Promoting the (US) home front in various factors.
2. Building and keeping the world’s strongest military at all odds.
3. Enforcing the USA way upon international order.
4. Changing US allies.
5. Creating, changing the USA international organizations to promote USA style democracy and human rights.
6. Being nice with China when possible and not nice with China when the USA decides it is necessary.
7. Propaganda spread in Americans about the Chinese and the Chinese want for power.
8. Install within the US government system a new line of thinking about containing China.
9. Revamp the US public education system to make the youth in America fear the rest of the world
10. Propaganda spread about how the USA is based upon the principles of freedom in not just its word but in its deeds also.
This site, WtR, has always told it like it is. WtR is constantly attacked because I do not sugar coat and just tell it like it is…
The USA system writes things like these reports because of fear, warmongering and desire to rule the world in whatever form they see is proper. This is basically a USA psychosis, most other countries are very happy to get along in the world and if they don’t it is a border contained issue…
Empires, especially Empires that transplanted from one failed British Empire to the new American (Western) Empire. Will do anything to stay afloat and damned to the rest of the world…
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts. Perhaps the fear of a loss of power. — John Steinbeck
Ever stop to think that WtR or Windows to Russia has been around all these years? So many about Russia sites have come and gone. I have followed and read thousands of sites trying to do something akin to either make money off of posting about Russia and or trying to tell the world that Russia sucks and or Russia is great!
They all fail! Literally all fail….they do not make money….they do not have readership to speak of…. If they succeed in any form? They are attacked relentlessly by anti-Russian sects…. & attacked by the USA Gov and corporations off the USA…
They are never written & writing from their hearts. They write to make money! Not gonna happen unless you write hate about Russia. No one wants to see good about Russia…it seems!
15 years (give or take) I have relentlessly posted. 7500 posts and thousands lost due to massive attacks against the site over the years. Tens of thousands of destroyed images by Google, Blogger Blogspot, HostGator, GoDaddy and many other sweet places such as Facebook, Twitter and whatnot’s…
I guess we will see what the future brings?
I am still going strong and still alive. Thanks to my sweetpea and Russia…
I am a tad bit perturbed at Muscovite’s right now!
Covid-19 was a minor irritant in the Tiny Russian Village. A local village would have a case of the virus and everyone would jump on the bandwagon to get it under control fast. People simply took it serious and shut King Corona down before he could get out of hand…
Moscow?
Have your parties and stay away from the rest of us…
I feel like Moscow is full of children and they all only see what is making them happy for that split second. They are like they are from a different planet than the rest of Russia. I call it Planet Toddler & throwing toddler tantrums & using that toddler tune out their parents, ability to the max, is more akin to their liking…
In TRV, the word would come that the Big Village had a case of virus. King Corona said hello….You simply knew to stay away. They shut the schools immediately, they shut businesses immediately and they isolated who had it and who he or she was in contact with. No issues, no crying and no problems. Two weeks later, back to normal and shopping is good…
Moscow?
Parties everywhere! Mask? What the hell is a mask? Gloves? What the hell are gloves? King Corona? Who the hell is that? Corona Beer? Yes we drink that here in Moscow! Etc…
Tiny Russian Village?
Quiet, Safe, Muscovite’s basically stayed away, Only a few cases of Covid-19 in surrounding Tiny Russian Villages, Playground roped off, Masks mandatory while in Big Village in all businesses, People respectful of distancing and your personal space and no bull crap!
Otis the town/village drunk.
Issues in a TRV? ; A handful of known drunks, like Otis on the Andy Griffin show, stand (well as best they can) around and talk to themselves and whom I suspect is King Corona. No one else would talk to them…
Every town has them and they will always be there whether you like it or not. They are confused, for everyone else leaves them standing in the middle of the road now that King Corona is around and they are always talking to him; No more pink elephants for drinkers now!
Moscow?
It seems like they all shake hands with King Corona. While they ignore masks, gloves and distancing rules. They ignore large group gathering warnings and they act like, “Who Cares!”
I care and the hospitals in Moscow, the old ones and all the new ones built recently, are full and panic is setting in, they really care. The Moscow medical system is being over run….as you read this. We all know people who have died from King Corona and as Sveta says, “I know so many who have had the virus, I don’t want it!”
Moscow is, Full of “Bull Crap!”…
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin: Is trying!
Muscovite’s don’t listen. Large groups of youth (under 50 years old to me), simply will walk all over you and could give a crap if you are there or not. Most of them are glued to their smartphones, music players and whatnot’s. That is what I see as I watch it all unfold…
All areas/regions instill their own rules and regulation based off federal guidelines:
That means that while our TRV area did and is doing great. Siberia has had some isolated nightmares getting King Corona under control. But due to small population areas, it has limited impact as a whole. Moscow is out of control, again in my opinion. As all over the world, cities are doing much worse than small town/village areas…
Yes the Muscovite’s are pissing me off with their flagrant ignorance of the elderly and ignorance of being respectful of others. I simply realize that this reinforces the difference of “city people” vs “country people” and it is a world wide issue…
Sveta grabbed a taxi, because Sammy has an issue still in the drive line and took about 70 kilos of potatoes to the family. Sveta is trying to get a video for Pro-Babushka (про бабушка), her mother, Sveta is now babushka (бабушка) of the family…
The daughter in-law is making a torte – tort (cake like dessert in Russia) as a thank you. So I guess TRV grown potatoes really are the cats meow in Russia?
China walks the walks and talks the talk of a huge mass society….Russia really tries to walk the walk and talk the talk, as all small societies do….The USA walks and whines as they cry foul all the time! Just as a teenager does when life sucks…
Everything that the USA does and wants to do is always in hidden in full view. The reason we do not see the plans of attack are because we Americans are way to occupied to care; occupied by our own physical/financial/chaotic country and occupied by the constant barrage of propaganda 24 hours a day…
