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wtf is going on? Everyone either has or is in the process of getting a PHD.

Just nitpicking here, but I would think 'nationalism' was first agitated by the French. Napoleonic France used it to curb the power and influence of her most dangerous rival on the continent: Austria - with some success. The frogs didnt forsee the establishment of a unified German state on their doorstep as a result of this, but then again.....'the present moment is a powerful goddess'. The same forces were at work in Italy and as Austrian influence was ousted she too was united in 1870.

mmm...pretty much agree with what has been said, but you cant really blame our government/leadership/people for turning to the past for motivation. As far as world history goes, we are a relativelly insignificant bunch but we have had some (brief) moments of glory: gotta milk em for all their worth.

....maybe the guy doesnt want to get married and using the baptism thing as an excuse...

I dont think you could forget about it immidiatelly after getting dumped. It would depend on how long it has lasted, how close it has been etc. But yeah, I dont think 'forget it' is a viable answer. I would get trashed with my mates

sounds like a poor excuse to me....

You need explanations, go do some reading. I dont have the time and couldnt be bothered anyhow. thats the point, the bolsheviks DID NOT have popular support, in fact they were nobodies untill 1917. Besides the majority of the Russian population of the time (peasants) were illiterate and were more worried about how their crops were going to turn up next summer and how they were to obtain some more vodka.

....I should also note, once these well known bandits had outlived their usefullness (ie. the Reds had won), they were all promptly rounded up and executed - well before Stalins terror in the 30s. - that is the reality of Bolshevik beginnings not the glorified garbage we were fed in Soviet schools.

hahahah - LMAO, the bolsheviks were a bunch of criminal thugs. They didnt come to power through persuasion, but through overt banditry. During the Civil War they freed well known criminals from aruond the Russian Empire to mobilise their thug followers for mass terror.

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Yeah, good stuff. Takes a while for the box to transfer the power no? If it took so long in a sports car on wet tarmac, I suspect you would be in a lot of trouble....

Winston, your SUCH a slut! I believe Wankel was credited with this invention

Find a job.

Im not much of expert on the subject - I choose not to be as it angers me. But, first and foremost I think we should have seen it coming. It had happened before (on a smaller scale) to us and to other Ottoman subjects in the Balkans. We were gullible in believing Turkish (and Russian lies) or maybe we chose to be, seeing the futility of our circumstances. Nevertheless IMO if we (the leadership) were more farsighted and united I think we could have avoided the full extent of it.... my two cents.

anoush, i dont have time to reply in detail to your post at this time....will try to adress later. Suffice to say I dont agree - there was corruption, but not as significant as you think IMO.... Anyhow, I gotto jet cao.

Sorry to hear about that Sip, but I am of the opinion (derived from observation) that kids had a better childhood/were happier in Armenia (during Soviet times) compared to Aussie kids NOW - this is just an observation. I had a reasonably good childhood considering the circumstances - moving out of Armenia at 11 with no english, so I have nothing to complain about. Mind you, I sort of had an 'Armenian' childhood here, as we lived in a block of flats with a lot of migrant families like ourselves and most of their kids would come downstairs to play like in Armenia.

Wow! The TV worked, is that all the great THOTH has to offer!? I maybe pampered, but if I were rich you know what I would be driving

WOW! You really know your history! Russia is going to be our end, in the same manner as she was our beginning - BLOODY!

I dont think it was a total failure and it may have survived had it not been for external pressure and agitation.

As much as I think Piggy shouldnt be taken seriously, I dont like the USSR bashing on this thread. Comparing 70s USSR and USA: Same in USSR and it was FREE! Same in USSR and it was FREE! I doubt your could buy straberries in January in US in the 70s, but the fact that the US always had a more consumer orientated economy is a given Soviet cities were more like European ones ie. real estate was at a premium, nevertheless many still managed to have a 'dacha' (country estate) You didnt have to worry about the secret police unless you were involved in something against the state - which is fair enough Yes USSR had conscription, the period and intensity of which was more than halved if you managed to make it to university. No threat of war? I believe during the Cold War period the US was involved in many more conflics both overtly and covertly and as a consequence lost many more men. there was no such thing in the USSR after World War 2. ....just a few points cleared up I hope. Im not a big fan of the USSR, just playing the devils advocate in this case.

Yes, a tragic day for our nation. I was 7 at the time and remmember the events like it was yesterday. We lived in Yerevan and my dad was in Russia at the time. I remmember we were about to leave for school (classes were held in the afternoon for some reason) and then it started - cutlery and cristal shacking and falling - I wasnt really scared coz I didnt know what was going on.....then my mum grabbed me and we ran downstairs. She took me to school, I saw a lot of army trucks with soldiers moving about. School got cancelled and I think it was there that we found out what had happened. That night there was another scare/aftershock and we ran downstair again. The next summer while on our way to Javankh we passed through Leninakan and it really was a terrible sight - escpessially the collapsed central church. You will be glad to know that while I was travelling through Spitak and Kirovakan this summer things seemed to have returned back to normal, thats the impression I got anyway. I saw very few collapsed buildings that hadnt been removed, certainly none that were still inhabited and a lot of new buildings that had been built since - it was a pleasant surprise.

LOL - but whats the point if it cant sustain any sort of speed through corners? Just another American with a small p!n!s....