Russian Soul and Culture…
WtR
Author: Russian_Village
A survivor of six heart attacks and a brain tumor, a grumpy bear of a man, whom has declared Russia as his new and wonderful home. His wife is a true Russian Sweet Pea of a girl and she puts up with this bear of a guy and keeps him in line.
Thank God for my Sweet Pea and Russia.
It is true and it is Russia. I should know I live in the Tiny Russian Village (But not Mars! 🙁 ) many times. I can relate and to look at it this way! Makes life all the better…
Russian humor at its best…
WtR
Yesterday the post: Neologism is needed before we replace normalcy…
Really pissed some awoken and non-awoken royally…
Oops, sorry I did not mean to be mean ~~
Okay, maybe a little bit!
WtR
I have mentioned time and time again about illegal sanctions constantly being put upon Russia by the USA. I have also said that these sanctions are an act of war. An act of war against any country that the USA puts them against, when the UN is not involved with the decision…
Now the USA tells other countries who they can hire and not hire!
“Another decision of the US authorities to impose sanctions against two Russian companies allegedly engaged in the employment of North Korean workers in our country is deplorable,” Zakharova said, noting that Washington does not support its accusations with any evidence.
On top of these illegal sanctions already in place, illegally against what Gas Europe can buy or not buy…
In 2017, the US Congress adopted the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions act (CAATSA). It envisages the introduction of sanctions against companies involved in the Nord Stream-2 project.
In July 2020, the US Senate’s international relations committee supported a special bill on restrictions against contractors involved in laying the pipeline.
In October, US State Department published a statement that US sanctions against Nord Stream 2 may also cover companies providing services or funding to vessels involved in the project.
These sanctions are on top of hundreds of sanctions, all illegal, against Russia…
Two good reads:
IF10779 Russian Sanctions
R45415 Russian Sanctions
The USA Administration is plain nuts…
WtR
MOSCOW, November 20. /TASS/. The entire Russian population will sooner or later encounter the coronavirus and herd immunity is the only thing that can stop the infection from spreading, lung doctor Alexander Karabinenko told TASS. “The entire Russian population, including people who will leave their home regions, villages and small towns, will sooner or later contract the coronavirus. The virus spreads through the air and how can we limit air circulation? We need herd immunity to stop the rise in infection….
Source: Russia’s entire population to encounter coronavirus, doctor says – Society & Culture – TASS
When Putin coughs? Everyone panics and Putin looks at them like they are…….
MOSCOW, November 18. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s health is perfectly fine, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS Wednesday. “Absolutely fine,” he said when asked about the leader’s health. Earlier on Wednesday, Putin held a meeting with government members and coughed a few times. The president apologized and continued the meeting almost without pausing.
Source: Putin’s health ‘absolutely fine’ — Kremlin – Society & Culture – TASS
~~ Okay now that crises has past and we even made sure one of the largest news agencies in the world posted it. ITAR-TASS has comforted me in knowing that Putin coughed and survived!
So Far… ~~
WtR
For me; to desire a new smartphone has been a strong and endless quest. I was a big Android fan. Therefore, always wanted the latest and greatest Android. Then I met the phone I have now…
Huawei just announced that this perfect phone will be getting their new Harmony OS. Soon I will be able to switch and leave behind for good the system of Android. I cannot support Android anymore, due to the USA restrictions imposed illegally upon Huawei. ZTE is another who has been illegally restricted. The list will grow as the USA is not able to compete on the world market…
I have learned to live without Google:
Huawei Mate 30: Living without Google is so easy and so much better…
Huawei has just implemented a few tricks with their EMUI 11 update and anything Google I ever desired is actually better than any Google App out there….except I don’t care about Google. DuckDuckGo is the only search engine to use and soon Harmony OS will be the only OS worth using for your phone…
Thus, the perfect phone will become more perfect and my desire to find another phone diminishes even more. Nice feeling and better yet; companies that try to control you need to be hurt and hurt bad. Google should be broke up and get the US Gov out of its money pockets…
Exactly as I talk about Gillette:
I have tried several razors since then and been very happy, yet the happiest shave is when I just found Wilkinson Sword is now in Russia. Funny how the British moved in silently, when Gillette screwed up. Wilkinson Sword has always had the old time razors in Russia, but now the full line of disposables are available everywhere. Yippy!
The British make damn fine razors and now I get them also…
Gillette has dropped their prices to a tenth of what they were in Russia. They are advertising very heavy and trying to undercut the market in Russia. They failed and now we have a huge whole other market of razors from all over the world. Russia was a Gillette brand name market; Was!
Gillette went from 599 rubles for a pack of razors to 79 rubles for the same pack of five. Let that sink in and tell me who is hurting?
I will never use Gillette again!
Just like when Huawei gets Harmony OS into my phone, I will never use Android again….unless Huawei goes on a Social Righteous Campaign….then you find a replacement for them…
Lets be Blunt:
Our world has become a world of no answers, just forced information:
“You’ve got to teach youngsters the difference between right and wrong, but you shouldn’t try to poke it down their throats. Let them ask the questions and then give them the answers.” – Henry Ford
The youth are fed information 24 hours a day. In a constant stream of data. This data is biased in all ways. This data is under the control of Corporations and Governments all over the world. We have lost and loosing the ability to find truth daily…
Corporations and Governments are in the business nowadays of shaping the future, not as a natural developed future, but as a future to meet the needs of a small few and their desires…
No corporation should try to alter our perception of reality….no government should interfere with basic reality….and never should teamed up corporations/governments be allowed to influence our youth and populaces at all…
For Gillette to single out white males and put the whole white male as a single issue. Is a simple agenda process being used to change perception of the youth and all population. This corporation is hand in hand with a government doing a coordinated agenda…
For the USA Gov to single out Huawei is an agenda. The same as with Gillette it is a hand in hand coordination between Gov and Corp…
There use to be a huge dividing line between Gov and Corp! (Us old geezers can associate by being there and or actually learning history; with Ma Bell, GM was on the chopping block many years ago, Standard Oil, American Tobacco, Northern Securities, Swift & Co, Apple, Kodak and many more.) Now they (Gov and Corp) are actually one and the same…
The government has a win win for its agendas and the corporation has a win win for its agendas. The government for populace control & money and the corporation for profits through government help, such as taxes, funding and support propaganda…
This is called a Corporatocracy:
A society or system that is governed or controlled by corporations.
Our government is hand in hand with corporations on virtually everything. The money is handed handily and efficiently between the two. Just like you pay for your meal at the local cafe after you eat…
What was once unheard of is now the norm in our modern world. Governments did not openly embrace corporations (& vice versa) and flaunt it full in the face of us peasants…
I seriously started to realize that we failed when we bailed out companies like GM and well too many to even think about…
Bailout Recipients Last update: Nov. 9, 2020 We’re tracking where taxpayer money has gone in the ongoing bailout of the financial system. Our database accounts for both the broader $700 billion bill and the separate bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Source: Bailout List: Banks, Auto Companies, and More | Eye on the Bailout | ProPublica
I guess I was wrong to think that companies should sink and swim on their own merits?
** You have seriously got to be kidding at the list of bailed out companies on that webpage above. I mean talk about dirty pool at the local parlor! **
I was very wrong…
Yes I am looking forward to Harmony OS and a much less controlled future for us peons….like now, I can shave with Wilkinson Sword in Russia, until the British try to tell me that I am a worthless man, for simply being a man!
I want to thank Google and Gillette, you help broaden my horizons (maybe you can also) and I do not accept what is in my face as a product and or service, just because you are the easiest and handiest to use and get and have an agenda attached to it…
WtR
PS: Remember Gillette doesn’t sell anything in actuality. “Proctor and Gamble” sells the product with the brand name Gillette. So I am smart enough to look up what and whom “Proctor and Gamble” have as assets in this world…
“Proctor and Gamble” nuff said…
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…
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?
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?
https://www.acronymattic.com/Window-To-Russia-(WTR).html
I am getting there…
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…
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…
Just some images of our life in Russia…
WtR
I have adapted:
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
Source: ‘More masks than jellyfish’: coronavirus waste ends up in ocean | Environment | The Guardian
I can say that this is not fake news;
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…
Now if there was just a used mask market?
I would be rich!
WtR