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And, yeah.. the USA are using Russian rockets to reach the space orbit also because they (the rockets) just cheat the fortune and never blow up with cosmonauts aboard. As a matter of fact, they can't fly at all because they were designed by Russian mafia and assembled buy always drunk, gloomy and pessimistic Russian engineers :2 cents: |
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a thing about Russia and Russians that people do not understand is the impact of communism on a society. when everything is scarce... when you can't just go out a buy clothes you want, but furniture, good food etc etc etc you have to hustle to get what you need as a basic fact of survival. additionally, people steal. everyone stole from the State which was largely viewed to be exploiting them and people largely had a very adversarial relationship with the government and authority in general since both were more often the source of oppression rather than the protector of your rights or provider. stealing throughout the history of the Soviet Union was just normal. you weren't stealing from companies or real people that actually got hurt.. you were stealing from the State. the same State that was failing to provide to begin with so it became a normal thing culturally to steal.
A lot of behaviors are going away very fast as Russia moves into a more westernized society. but people fail to understand the hardships that came with the fall of Communism and the struggle that people were forced to endure and where many are still forced to fight to survive today. People outside of Russia just don't understand what it meant to suddenly have your job and any work prospect evaporate... to have your pension evaporate and to have prices all around you sky rocket for every conceivable thing... and all at the same time. its hard to think about the future, plan for the future or think about working for the future when you didn't really know what that future was going to be. if you had the chance to steal 10,000 or have a job for 1,000 a month, stealing the 10,000 makes more sense when you are watching companies come and go, not pay employees after months of promises and so on. the situation there and culture there is very complicated. it can't be explained to someone in the west, because they can never see the situation through anything but the western prism. but saying they don't steal or scam etc is hardly correct. lying and stealing is very much a normal thing there. ripping off the place you work for is very much a normal thing there. fucking over any one that isn't family is very much a normal thing there. saying EVERYONE behaves the same way isn't fair... saying its common and might typify the vast majority of people isn't unfair at all. |
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Russian seems like it takes effort to speak more less try and sing. It just doesn't flow well |
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i guess i should write a book about it. Eastern Blockers for Dummies. Feel free to epass me 1/2.
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i would add that stealing and cheating is the biggest evil, because even colombian drug dealers sale short icqs and do their bidnis more or less honestly.
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Link please or leave. Stop blowing smoke out of your ass. |
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Two Russians just got caught scamming Thai banks for a lot of money. Bank hackers.
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about Russian Mentality...
Map of Ukraina before "occupation" by Russia - 1654 year http://www.krotov.info/pictures/maps/17/ukraina.jpg Map of Ukraina after "occupation" by Russia - 1992 year http://siriys-info.com/uploads/map/m...raine-full.gif Map of Georgia before "occupation" by Russia - 1762 year http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...a_map_1762.jpg Map of Georgia after "occupation" by Russia - 1992 year http://s51.radikal.ru/i132/0808/e8/e117c037fc40.jpg any questions? for example, can you show me map of Ireland before and after occupation by United Kingdom or Holland before and after occupation by French Republic? Quote:
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weekly, what % of gross national product of Georgians is made by remittances the Georgian from Russia? How many Georgians "thief in law" live in Russia?
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was he Russian at some point? God Bless america for its total blindness. |
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i could write a 100 books about the shit i experienced there and no one would believe a single word of it. |
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Primorye = Vladivostok Region (like a county)
Putin appointed representatives to report to him from the 89 regions of Russia once he was elected... this is one such report. _______________________ Confidential From Viktor Kondratov Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in Primorye 22 Svetlanskaya Street Vladivostok, 690110 Tel. 22-39-13 Fax 22-18-37, N 277-c 19.06.97 To Ye. V. Savostianov Deputy director Head of the staff of the Administration of the President of Russia Moscow Beginning in 1993, the negative tendencies of local authorities' corruption and their uniting with the leaders of organized crime groups has continued to develop. The staff policy of choosing directors for governmental agencies based on the principle of personal faith significantly boosts the crisis in the social and economic spheres. Following the governor's initiative, individuals who use their work in Primorye power structure for strengthening their own influence on the economic mechanism in order to increase their own wealth were appointed on the key positions in the local government. Besides, officials use both the law enforcement agencies and opportunities of working with organized crime leaders for their profit-seeking interests. Thus, the first governor's deputy, K.B. Tolstoshein, while mayor of Vladivostok, actively participated in the process of illegal privatization of municipal property. Together with a leader of an organized crime group, Alexeyenkov, he conducted an unprecedented deal for selling the largest hotel, the Vladivostok, to Amis and Co. Company for virtually nothing. The stock exchange experts estimate the cost of the hotel as 40 billion rubles, while it was sold for 127 million [Editor's note: This was apparently during a time when the exchange rate was 6,000 rubles to the dollar, making the value of the hotel $6.7 million]. As a payment for such a "service," Tolstoshein's under-aged daughter received 20 percent of stock of the Amis and Co. Along with illegal financial operations, Tolstoshein uses his connections with the leaders of criminal groups in order to conduct violent operations toward competitors and provide for the normal functioning of the commercial companies under his control, such as Oksitur, Voles, and Magnolia. As a punishment for the criticism on one of the Vladivostok Broadcasting Corporation's (VBC) radio programs, with the help from the criminal leader A.B. Makarenko, he organized abduction of radio reporters [Alexei] Sadykov and [Andrei] Zhuravlyov. Because of the pressure on the detectives during the investigation of the criminal case, the police failed to reveal the cause of the attack on the reporters. Together with the head of Vladivostok's Pervorechensky district, Mr. Dyomin, Tolstoshein helped the leaders of a criminal gang, the Babakekhyan brothers, to get control over the so-called Chinese market by reregistering documents on their names. He received a bribe for that in the form of a Lexus car of an approximate cost of $30,000. Via his relatives, Tolstoshein founded the commercial companies Atlantida, Bgat, Spektr and others. The leaders of the largest and most stable criminal groups -- Kostenko, Alexeyenkov, Koptev, and Petrakov, who were sued for violent crimes many times -- are providing the companies' security. Tolstoshein's mother-in-law, Kutilova, 67, is a co-founder of eight commercial companies and has up to 35 percent of the stock in them. For the assistance in getting favorable conditions for the commerce, Tolstoshein, having broken the law, received a five-room apartment worth 600 million rubles from V.G. Beloshapkin, director of Dalvemo. Vice Governor V.S. Dubinin drew our attention while investigating Chechen community criminal leader P.A. Aldamov, who was involved in major financial machinations, money extortion from merchants, and the murder of a tax police officer. Dubinin used his power to assist Aldamov in organizing wholesale trade of oil products, investing illegal capital of the Chechen community into the region's economy, covering debts of the companies under his control from the regional budget. In 1996, the local FSB office investigated a criminal case on Vice Governor M.B. Chechelnitsky, later the chairman of the Committee for Fuel Resources, who was conducting machinations concerning fuel deliveries for the region, together with the criminal leader I.V. Vorontsov, who has been convicted a several times, once for a murder. The investigation revealed that Chechelnitsky had misused 400 billion rubles out of the regional money. The criminal case was closed because of Chechelnitsky's sudden death. According to the preliminary results of an audit the FSB conducted together with the Finances Ministry regional office on the companies delivering fuel, during the heating seasons of 1995-1996 and 1996-1997, fuel worth 100 billion rubles was not delivered to the region despite the contracts. This is regarding the fact that the governor directly controls the work of the heads of the Department for Household Maintenance and Committee for Fuel Resources, V.G. Chepik and S.B. Zorin. In 1994, during the time of privatizing the largest fishery company, Primorrybprom, the corrupt connections of Vice Governor F.T. Novikov revealed themselves actively. Using his power, Novikov promoted for the position of the chairman of the board A.M. Brekhov, later arrested by regional prosecutors for organizing the contract killing of a former general director of the company, A.S. Zakharenko. Together with Brekhov, Novikov used the money of a Vladivostok criminal gang leader, O. Kozhemyako, and a Moscow criminal leader, Yu. I. Yesin, arrested by Italian police, to acquire a controlling block of shares of the company. Novikov's share was 27 percent. In November of 1996, Adam Magomed Eminovich Imadayev was hired as the governor's advisor on national issues. This was the same person as Adam Mikhailovich Kovalyov. He drew the FSB attention as an individual who had two civilian passports. He used one of the passports to establish a commercial firm called Primorye Regional Accounting Chamber. We have just received evidence that Imadayev, with the help of [former] Vice Governor N.G. Sadomsky, is trying to organize an air company to fly from Grozny to the United Arab Emirates and other countries of the region. Considering the absence of border guard and customs regimes in Grozny, he plans to smuggle in expensive goods and food products. Together with the revealed abuses of the law found in the Primorye Bank, which, following the regional administration's instruction, had concentrated all the budget-financed companies (we reported that to the first vice premier of the Russian Federation government, A. Chubais), there is a document confirming that [former] Vice Governor V.A. Kolesnichenko has a special account for 300 million rubles with 1,000 percent interest. All the above has been reported following your order. |
also... again, the above (or some of it) should be put in its proper context. you are talking about a time when the soviet union had just collapsed and it looked like the communist party was about to take power again. the entire nation was bankrupt and in shambles... so everyone was scrambling to get what they could and stash it away. it might not make a lot of sense to an american... but when you are trying to live on 90$ a month as a tenured university professor in a country that's falling apart and appears to have no future and you have the chance to rip off $500,000.00 from the local budget, school budget or whatever, with little to no chance of getting caught... you're most likely going to do it.
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They have no internet connections in Russia. They keep brown bears as pets in their "izba". And they drink vodka from samovar. And I almost forgot, they wear caps with ear flaps whole year.
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Pleasurepays, from Russian gangsters for you special :winkwink:
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haha... nice. i was watching Brigada last week while working... listening to the opening of that song made me think about those fucked up translations of Star Wars Attack of the Clones or Lord of the Rings... i've been looking for those to download for quite a while. not sure if you know what i mean,.. but there are those guys in moscow who created those dubbed translations but made them really funny and with a lot of gangster slang.
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Just a suggestion. Don't read what Pleasurepays wrote - he is in my personal ignore list within a year, because he's like a stupid kid who knows nothing but tries to show his intellect :2 cents: |
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http://www.muzworld.net/download.php?id=45378 or here http://www.zachot.ru/index.php?m=artist&aid=4555 |
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Somehow I was watching a story about modern LA gangs on Discovery. The narrator told something like this: "There is a real war in LA, and these guys are shooting each other and everyone with automatic guns. You may never know that it could be very dangerous to walk at some streets of LA. Almost same dangerous as for example in Moscow". You know guys, I was REALLY SHOCKED. Course yes, we have a crime in Moscow some people steal, some even could kill you for a wallet like in ANY OTHER BIG CITY. But 90% of such crimes happen only at night in the dark alleys. However, we don't have groups of guys rolling over the city on cars and shooting each other with automatic weapon. We don't have these LA-like gangster wars on our streets. This is ABSOLUTELY INSANE.
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weekly, i hope you are exception and not the rule, cause if ALL americans are like you are... i am really sorry about that:)
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ааааа... держите меня семеро, не могу не запостить!
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People are the same everywhere, each bunch has their own good and bad.
what Pleasurepays said earlier about communist state and its oppression of it's people is true. stealing grew pretty much in mentality of most population, stealing from state owned anything (which did own everything) was norm - basic means of survival when there is no other options to take care of your family - i'm not justifying it, just stating what when on and grew into mentality of people for over 70 years.. prior to that imperialism and feudalism didn't encourage people's loyalty as well. Now, all of that doesn't mean that generally Russians are barbarian monkeys looking and making schemes to fuck anybody who gets in their way, as been said before we have hard working, intellectual and honest minds too. Russian cultural efforts are respected and studied in many other countries. Innovation is in Russian blood - but less experience effectively and productively utilizing it. was born in USSR and been thought never to steal, i did it once and my dad beat the crap out of me - set me straight ever since... go figure, Russian mentality.. |
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Not that you remeber any of that or the rest of you orphan years. Google that one punkass. |
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