Windows to Russia

Made it down to the Tiny Russian Village safe and sound…

In a few days I will post some images. The village is in mourning right now. The last full time occupant from the very old days has died. She was 92 years old and thus the village is quiet right now with her passing. I respect such times and will not run around and gather images of all the strangers and such…

I hope to see 92 years myself. Doubtful, but I can hope. It was just a few years ago that she still put in a huge potatoes garden and dug up all those potatoes planted, by herself. Image at 90 years old living by yourself and still be able to keep chickens, goats and grow all your and the families food. By yourself!

She was born in this Tiny Russian Village and lived here all her life. Worked the communal farm and then she worked at the school for the deaf and blind located here…

But….TRV is at the edge of winter. we have this week to get winterized and we will see next week roll in at freezing temperatures. That means all plants have to be covered, such as roses and water barrels out away. Winter does not wait for any fools in Russia…

Maybe I will see 90 and still be able to plant the garden?

WtR

Knowing how to get by and make things in life is part of survival of that life…

The most common broom you will find just about anywhere in Russia is a broom made from tree limbs. Brush type trees growing wild are the best. I watch as they cut limbs from stumps, trying to growing after the tree is cut down. They have certain trees they use that seem to make the best brooms…

It is the Russian way and they all have factory made brooms. They just do not like to use them…

I remember years ago an American man griping to me about his new Russian/Ukraine wife. He bought her tons of special newfangled cleaning stuff and she refused to use anything but what she was use to and made herself, she even cleaned the floor on her knees….it broke them up as a couple. Sad really, she new the best way to do things and did it…

It is interesting to see how many times they use one handle from a factory made broom and keep that broom handle in use for many years. It also cleans up scrub branches and puts them to use. Instead of tossing them into the dumpsters…

This is and that is Russia…and that is why when the %$#* hits the fan. They will survive and meany will not…

WtR

Russia Gate and it ensuing manipulated Hysteria. Is in its simplicity just a deflection from the fact that it’s the US government that is the one guilty of these very acts contained within the hysteria of the Russia Gate premise…

Download the PDF below in the link and have a read. Grab some coffee and or tea and sit awhile. It is 121 pages of truth…

Download Complete Report: Russia gate Hysteria

HYSTERIA”If American democracy is destroyed within the next generation, it will not be destroyed by the Russians or the Chinese but by ourselves, by the very means we use to defend it”. – Senator J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT“American Militarism”, 1970, Epilogue

“It is an attempt to lay the blame at someone else’s door. This is not our problem. The problem is in US politics… The other team lost. They are reluctant to acknowledge the mistake. It is easier to say, “We are not to blame, the Russians are to blame, they interfered in our election.” It reminds me of anti-Semitism: the Jews are to blame for everything. We know what such sentiments can lead to. They lead to nothing good. The thing to do is simply to work and think of how to get things right”. VLADIMIR PUTIN President of the Russian Federation, (in response to a question from American journalist Megyn Kelly at the plenary meeting of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, June 2, 2017)

Original Source: 3c3d1e3b69a4c228e99bfaeb5491ecd7.pdf

and…

We are not enjoying the current developments, but we did not start it. It is stretching the truth to say that this is the punishment for Ukraine and Crimea. It all began back under President Barack Obama, long before Washington launched its “colour revolution” project in Ukraine. It began with Edward Snowden, who was stuck in Russia because he could not fly anywhere –his passport was cancelled. The US President, the Secretary of State and the FBI and CIA directors put pressure on us to surrender him without delay. We said we could not do so because all the accompanying information indicated that he was facing the death penalty. This is why Obama banned bilateral contacts and cancelled his visit ahead of the G20 summit in St Petersburg. By the way, we were preparing for that meeting an agreement on the further reduction of strategic offensive arms, which should have followed on the 2010 Prague Treaty, as well as a declaration that set out an agenda on strategic stability for many years to come. Obama’s inability to forgo personal resentment buried a very important document, which could have been put to very good use now.

Download: Russia gate Hysteria

This was put out by the “EMBASSY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”

WtR

It is Americans themselves who are destroying their own political system, even the very society structure and the whole country. They are doing it with their own hands, their own paranoid schizophrenia form of mindset and it is done merrily, without consideration for the consequences…

They even vote in support of their own ruination: without any assistance from a “foreign enemy”…

It is Americans themselves, no one else…

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It took me three days, but after a bit of rewiring and alternator bracket jimmy rigging, I accomplished in putting a high amp alternator on Sammy the Volga….I even wired the tachometer to work at the same time…

I was able to install an alternator with 30 + more amps available (60 amp stock to 90 – 100 amps) and now it looks like we will have many less issues. Got power to spare for all the accessories. The only thing I will do in the Tiny Russian Village is to run a separate plug to allow Svetochka to be able to boil water for her tea…

Now that is living the High Life…

Once I discovered and it sunk in my thick head that it is the same alternator (With a bit of modification.) as fits a Citroen, Fiat, Peugeot and or a 3102 & 3110 Volga. I was able to search and find a very good price on an alternator. Thank goodness for Alibaba in China…

4400 rubles is what it cost us to get Sammy the Volga fixed. That is $67 give or take according to the day we bought it. You get use to daily variances in price after a few years. It is a learning process to buy at the exact moment, for if you buy smart, you will save many dollars….this alternator cost over $100 normally…

It is always something and I had fun doing it. Even if it was freezing cold outside the whole time… 😉

Time to go to The Tiny Russian Village…

WtR

Putin is 67 years old and doing good…

Putin was born on 7 October, 1952 in Leningrad… (That is now Saint Petersburg.)

Putin took some very rare time off and walked in the Taiga woods in Russia’s Siberia. Putin is a leader who loves his countryside as well as his people. Live long and strong Mr President…

Happy Birthday!

WtR

But there is a whole bunch of nonprofessional governmental ignoramuses whom all think they are experts on Russia…

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I have talked about Gillette and that they deserve to go out of business and that I will never buy a Gillette razor again…

Gillette! Yes anti-Gillette in Russia also…

Gillette has raised recently their prices, four times and even five times the original price in Russia. I mean seriously, they have reduced the quantity (9 razors now at 3 in the pack for a higher price.) and raised the price. I at one time (two weeks ago) could buy 5 basic double blade Gillette razors for around 89 rubles. They now sell at 599 rubles at Globus. The image is of their checkout stock and I will tell you that hardly anyone will buy them…

The Russian manufacturing has produced the equivalent razors, at the same quality and higher quantity in a package for what is now 69 rubles a 5 pack… (Touch more than a Dollar for five razors.)

A company that raises the price this high in the foreign market shows that it is under stress. It either means that the US market is collapsing and or has collapsed and they are trying to make up some profit downfall by foreign sales increases. This is a stop gap measure and even more Russians will stop buying Gillette…

I have to smile when I see a company as pathetic as Gillette falter. They will lie and cover it up for a year or more. That is typical corporate manner, but it will start showing on their bottom line in the future…

Gillette you deserve to be out of business for your slanted, hateful advertisement to your biggest buyers of razor products…

WtR

It is snowing like crazy…

Good thing I took an umbrella when I walked…

Gonna be one long winter in Russia and I can feel it in my bones…

I predict 8 to 9 months of winter this time….gotta get to the Tiny Russian Village…

WtR

Russia’s largest oil company Rosneft has asked and is tendering transactions in the euro. They have switched from the US Dollar as its main default currency. This is for all exports of crude oil and refined products, as the oil company is turning off the Dollar trap for as many sales as possible in order to avoid illegal U.S. sanctions being slapped against it by the USA…

I have talked about the fact that Russia has to leave the Dollar and either go to the Euro and or go to Gold. The Euro is a stop gap measure, but by making the Euro first in transactions, time will be bought as Russia continues to De-Dollarize…

You can’t blame Rosneft for doing it. The Dollar has be weaponized and thus it must be excluded from the world transactions. It takes time, but companies like Rosneft can do it…

Remember that a snowball and or a avalanche starts small and gets big as it goes downhill…

I have also talked about how Europe is being destroyed by America. The EU went along with too many sanctions and played too many games. I guess they thought that the USA was going to come out on top and or they have been trying to play along to garner time to salvage themselves…

For the last 16 years (Since the Iraq war started) the world has started to walk on egg shells and have been smiling at America while they hold backroom meetings to figure out what to do…

Unless the EU wakes up and turns East and leaves the West behind. This action of using the Euro will be only a stop gap measure. If the EU embraces other countries and plays fair, they can salvage the EU and the Euro…

Again…

The USA is at war with the whole world, just that half the world has not woke from their nap yet…

WtR

Update:

Russia’s largest oil company Rosneft has set the euro as the default currency for all new exports of crude oil and refined products. As of September, Rosneft is seeking euros as the default option of payment for its crude oil and products, Reuters reported on Thursday, quoting tender documents the Russian firm has published. “Rosneft has recently adjusted all the new contracts for export supplies to euros,” a trader at a company that regularly procures oil from Rosneft told Reuters, adding that buyers

Source: Russia’s largest oil company ditches dollar in new oil deals — RT Business News