Fall of Russia, Russian Fall -- page by page, day by day...
I hear the arrogant voices those call the two station I listen to -- Radio Liberty and Echo of Moscow. Now I am not the youngest. Where they came from? Could be my children... I ran away from their grandfathers.
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And how Russian people look like a century ago:
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http://www.livejournal.ru/books/themes/id/10104 (Somov's portraits) Ivanov
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brain drain RU to US (речь идёт об учёных и высококвалифицированных спецах) в следующих количествах:
1997 1749 1998 1348 1999 910 2000 1488 2001 2595 2002 2714 2003 847 2004 1994 2005 2574 2006 1461 2007 1466What does it say?
analysis of the "fifth (silent) wave"?
Six waves of immigration in one century (including the Jewish one of the 1900s), and all are in one direction -- west. Arriving to one place -- USA. What result to expect?
It began in 1968 with the "Jewish immigration", remember?
Historians say that Stalin planned his "final solution" at his last days; better solution was to let them leave. To Israel? Who cares? Out of OUR land!
"Our" was to be redefined.
Our culture?
Was it the end of new (international, no cosmopolitan) culture of communism? Was it the secret death of USSR?
"Traitors-in-Law" or shadow of future new "Russia"?
Ethnic identity won over cultural identity! Back to the old (pre-revolutionary) world? The 1917 return to the pre-modernity to be continue --
... Who was the first "Jew" starting this stream? What day it was?
The school was behind me -- and I know nothing about myself, my country and history.
