UGLY: Please link me to a statement by Russians to the contrary, showing respect and admiration for Americans' risk-taking for freedom. Otherwise, it's you who are clearly the fool (which goes without saying).

UGLY: In other words, you have no evidence of Russia expressing such respect, so I was correct.

The fact that Americans don't know as much as they should about Russians doesn't excuse Russian ignorance. In fact, given the haughty contempt Russians express for American education and cultural awareness, if Russia is as bad as America then Russians should consider it a dire emergency. But I'm glad at least to see you admit how woefully ignorant Russian people are about Americans.

And given the fact that the American population isn't going extinct nor is it laboring under a wage of $300/month, I'd say that Russians have a lot more to learn from America than vice versa.

Your comments are the typically ignorant gibberish of a russophile dolt. Instead of looking for ways to improve Russia, all you can do is look for ways to rationalize its failure. You live in a world of neo-Soviet illusion where you are clever and everybody else is "foolish" and you have nothing to show for it but your empty, lurid neo-Soviet fantasies and your failure.

UGLY: The point I made was that Russians know nothing about American history and are unwilling, in contrast to the first Americans, to risk anything for freedom. You've said absolutely nothing that is even relevant too, much less an illumination of, that point. In other words, you're babbling self-absorbed gibberish.

The post is about what Russians know about America, not whether they care. I gather from your insane gibberish that you think Russia has nothing to learn from the pilgrims and can do just fine ignoring them. You feel that it's just fine for Russia to destroy itself in this way, since you think America is destroying itself by ignoring Russia. In other words, you're a russophile and hellbent on Russia's destruction as they all are.

I leave you to your ridiculous, self-destructive ignorance, you pathetic caveman.

LR - thanks for the Thanksgiving tribute. As the oldest democracy in the world, 400 years and still standing, we deserve credit for that. Our success is rooted in our willingness to sacrific ourselves for freedom, admonish ourselves when we aren't living up to that standard, value a free press and free elections even when we don't personally like every outcome, embrace new ideas and new immigrants(I value an immigrant's commitment to America whether they've been a citizen for 3 years or 300 by family heritage). What makes America great isn't defined by geography or money, it's a state of mind, a movable feast. We can pull our written basic Bill of Rights out of our pockets and demand they be respected. They always are. As Jefferson said "the government that governs least, governs best". He's endured and given a better life to more people than Marx or Lenin. It would be wise for a Russian to read his works starting with the 400 year old US Constitution.


Luck hasn't kept us the world's oldest democracy, nikolay, we've worked, generation after generation, at protecting our children from evil. Russians haven't sacrificed enough, my friend. That filthy fascist rodent that infects intelligent thought on LR's site is your worst enemy. Examine it carefully, along with Putin's fascism, and ask yourself if repudiating these people isn't what will save Russia?

I wish Russsians had the life I life. Free. Not degraded. Money means nothing without that. It's not exportable. It's earned.

You're right, our Constitution wasn't ratified until 1787, but, I'll count our prior 200 years of English settlement as a democratic society as well. We were not serfs to the English in any European sense.

My point doesn't change, democracy isn't something that happens to people by luck.

I doubt that many Russians have ever read the US Contitution or Bill of Rights, those simple enduring documents which makes an American Putin impossible. If you are ignorant of those historic documents, not an abstraction, from which Americans derive their rights, then, you really don't understand the structure of our democracy. To the superficial mind, we are a democracy because we are rich, when, the correct correlation is that we are wealthy because we are free.

After the generations lost to the slaughter and squalor of Marx's Manifesto, what sane country would repeat that? Only, the Russians. The free press is evaporating, the state is confiscating private property again, show trials, political murders, power recentralized in the Kremlin, it's disgusting. I have no sympathy for Russians that are passive or apologists for Putin.

UGLY: One post doth not a blogger make. Don't drink and post.

NIKOLAY: You're an ignorant Russophile slob. No other country in world history is remotely close to over two centuries of uniterrupted constitutional democracy with so many changes of power betwee rival political parties. The fact that you can't manage to give America credit for this betrays you as the ridiculous little propagandist you in fact are.

Meanwhile, your phrase "tedious grandiloquence of a classic Pravda editorial" says all that can be said about your right to critize others on this basis.

You've said absolutely nothing to indicate that Russians are willing to take risks for freedom, instead spewing forth "tedious grandiloquence" attempting to rationalize Russian failure. If going down with your rusty ship turns you on, knock yourself out, baby.

UGLY: Are you really mentally ill enough to think that you can pronounce the "winner" and it will matter in some way? Let's see now . . . there's an argument between a russophobe and a russophile and you, a russophile, think the russophile "won." Gee, what a surprise! Gosh Ugly, you're really starting to bore me now. Keep it up and I'll just start ignoring you.

Meanwhile, the blog you mention (a) isn't listed in your profile and (b) doesn't have any indication that "Ugly Racoons" is connected to it. So, to prove its yours, put up a post about this blog, then I'll acknowledge you to be a blogger.