Pravda is Truth
The Soviet Union had a propaganda newspaper called Pravda, which apparently means “Truth”. Ole Robbie Heinlein wrote about it back in the day. He went to visit the commie country and his wife learned Russian for the trip. He wanted to check out the size of their cities and their industries and stuff, but the taxi drivers wouldn’t take him to the factories or schools. In every city they would take him to the stadium. It was almost as though the drivers were instructed to do so. Like the pride of the country was how fancy their stadiums are. Weird.
Anyway, Robbie didn’t much care for Pravda and he was pretty outspoken about the non-value of state controlled media. I noticed that Pravda has a website that they publish in English. I guess they’re still in business. If you could call a communist state run propaganda a “business”. It has an incredibly anti-western slant. Mostly anti-American. They also publish the weirdest, silliest articles. I enjoy skimming them so I can see the world from a Russian perspective.
Seriously, some of these are worth laughing at. It’s good stuff. Is this their version of The Onion? I'm sure that the scientists that read this blog will appreciate how that article is labeled.
In an odd way, I really like the hate-America stuff that they are obsessed with. I also like the absence of anti-Russian stuff in our media. It means we’re important to them, and they’re not even on our radar.
The opposite of love isn’t hate...it’s indifference.
Anyway, Robbie didn’t much care for Pravda and he was pretty outspoken about the non-value of state controlled media. I noticed that Pravda has a website that they publish in English. I guess they’re still in business. If you could call a communist state run propaganda a “business”. It has an incredibly anti-western slant. Mostly anti-American. They also publish the weirdest, silliest articles. I enjoy skimming them so I can see the world from a Russian perspective.
Seriously, some of these are worth laughing at. It’s good stuff. Is this their version of The Onion? I'm sure that the scientists that read this blog will appreciate how that article is labeled.
In an odd way, I really like the hate-America stuff that they are obsessed with. I also like the absence of anti-Russian stuff in our media. It means we’re important to them, and they’re not even on our radar.
The opposite of love isn’t hate...it’s indifference.
posted by brando at 12:01 AM
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State controlled or not, everyone is on the Screw America bandwagon these days. "That's fine. Just keep it on your soil."
My mom and aunt and I watched the new straight-to-video werewolf movie "Big Bad Wolf" this last weekend. It was terrible.
There is no way that Pravda is considered legit. I don't care what Rob said it was back in the day, that news site can't be taken seriously. I don't think the russian people are that stupid.
It's sort of like a Russian version of AJ. They have a celebrity watch section, but most of the celebrities are American. Oh, and Russians drink their own urine, apparently.
no way, the Russians don't like us??? Whats your next post, "water can be wet".
Just like when someone is trash talking during a sporting contest, all you have to do to shut them up is point to the scoreboard. So when the Soviets start running their mouths we just have to point to the scoreboard. (im listing these in order of importance)
1. USA Hocey team 80 Olympics
2. Rocky KO'd Drago
3. Cold War
4. Hulk Hogan over Nicoli Volkov
I was just reading something about a meeting between Nixon and Khrushchev in 1959 that has since been labelled "the kitchen debate" Nixon bassically told Krushchev that the US was better because of all of our modern appliances, diswashers, stoves, washing machines, tvs.
I love it, we've got better crap and spend more on useless shit than you so take that.
Ive spent my share on junk and have wasted hours in front of the tv, does this make me a cold war veteran?
Stu, I actually laughed out loud at your #4 reference. What was Nic's signature move? Eating turnbuckles or something? Hittin' folks with 2X4s?
As for the "water is wet" argument, I'm guilty as charged. I do sort of get a kick out of arguing to the worst and most absurd statements. It doesn't make me seem all that insightful, and it makes me look like Sgt. Obvious, but c'mon, it sure is fun.
Sure you can be a cold war vet, but only if you thought that Chappy Sinclair was cool. Wait a sec, Chappy was fighting Arabs, not Ruskies. Iron Eagle was way ahead of it's time.
OK, here is a better litmus test of your Americatude. Strictly from memory, can you name 4 actors (or actresses) from Red Dawn?
They actually sell a commemorative Cold War Victory Medal. I'm not really sure what "commemorative" means. I think it means that the battalion commander didn't award it to you.
I think I'm going to take a closer look at this "Pravda", in future posts. A close Brando look. I’m getting sort of tired of pointing out DU infractions. At least for now.
Here's a fun article. The Russians launched their first space shuttle in 1987 or so. A shuttle that looked suspiciously similar to one produced a decade earlier in another country. Anywho, this clearly showed how great they are compared to Americans because the weather was bad. Hey, you better run that article in 2003.
Actually, space is one thing I won't make fun of the ruskies about. We may have poured a ton of money into getting to the moon first, but what country in 2007 has a space station in orbit that we have to rent space in (computer quality notwithstanding), and what country takes elderly tourists on space walks (for a modest profit), while our 30-year-old-design shuttles are collecting dust in the hangar?
Our space superiority bragging-rights due to the 1969 moonwalk are quickly losing ground to the fricking town they're building up there. When was the last time we had a space walk that didn't stop at the russian space station for a fuel up? Until we land on Mars or do something worthwhile in the current century I think I'm going to hold back on the USA space cockiness for a while.
I ain't no commie, but I give props where props is due.
Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Erin Gray (nobody backs baby in a corner) and Lea Thompson, and C. Thomas Howe are the only ones i can think of, off the top of my head. They not only fought Russians but Cubans also. WOOOLLLVEEERIINNNEEES!
The Russian space program must be top notch if Lance Bass couldnt even make it.
When I was a kid, during the 84 Olympics when the Soviets boycotted, McDonalds had this promo where you were given an event and if the US won, you won. Gold-Big Mac, Silver-fries. and bronze-soda. Well since all the Eastern block teams were gone the US cleaned up. Many track events the we took 1st-3rd. Every day my friends and I induldged on a full McDonalds meal. I dont think Ive ever been more proud to be an American.
Then at school my teacher was trying to tell me some nonsense about the Cold War being bad. Here I am a Jr. High student who because of the Cold War got fat off Big Macs. The Cold War was working out pretty well for me and all my fat friends.
Might not have worked out so well for McDonalds though. Im guessing giving out free meals doesnt help their profits
I should say that our Mars Rover mission is pretty awesome though. Its just that our manned spaceflight record has really been getting trounced by the Reds. Lets get some more people up there, dammit! Wasn't that guy that owns Virgin going to build a commercial atmosphere skimmer, like some sort of A-wing? What happened to that?
Red Dawn is the movie in which I learned that if your car won't run you only need to pee on the engine.
Heck yeah our Mars expoloration is pretty good. As well as all the other long range explorers that we slingshot out.
I also liked that "smack a commet" program. That's pretty cool.
Cory, MIR crashed a while back. Are you talking about ISS? I just had to read a bunch on that. I was under the impression that the ISS was a US space station that others teamed up with. Like the modules were put up by individual space programs.
As for space shuttles collecting dust, I think that one was launched yesterday. And the last time Russia launched one was 15 years ago, and that was the one and only time (I think). We've launched bunches of times.
As for giving props to an article run in 2007 bragging about a russian space shuttle that was launched 15 years ago. I ain't got no props for that.
" Strictly from memory, can you name 4 actors (or actresses) from Red Dawn?" Without looking at the box (which is here in my room) I rememember Patrick Swayzee and Charlie Sheen. Who else? Who played the chicks and Colonel Bella? Dang, can't remember. Pravada being legit is like saying China Daily News is free from government influence.
Brando, forgot all about Iron Eagle. I love the fact that that kid sorta knows how to fly a plane but then all of a sudden, he turns his walkman on and cranks up the 80s hairband music and it transforms him into a supper pilot.
Red Dawn, Iron Eagle, War Games all of these movies have teens from my generation saving the world from communism and total world distruction. Baby boomers can start thanking us anytime. Maybe gen Xers should be the Greatest Genereation
Cool. Congenital Hypertrichosis Lanuginosa. Not too common. But I think Ambras syndrome is a little more werewolfish.
From my medical references on this: Fewer than 40 cases are documented worldwide. The incidence of CHL/Ambras is unknown; however, reported incidence ranges from 1 in a billion to 1 in 10 billion.
This is actually a REAl documented medical phenomenon. You can read more about it on emedicine, which is a pretty good peer reviewed medical reference that many physicians use.
I am disappointed to say that no documented cases of increased ability to buy beer, play basketball extremely well or car surf are documented other than the 1980's documentary, "Teen Wolf".
There might be something similiar, but that headline and picture are for me to snicker at, and Pravda would really have to twist the truth in order for that to make sense.
That's putting it pretty mildly.
Actually, I'm going to go ahead and say it. There are no werewolves. The folks over at Pravda are dipshits.
there may not be any werewolves in Russia but I think there may be a werewolf in london and I think he may even be an American.
Just wanted to get one more 80s movie reference in and totally get off topic
I don't think we even have much of a topic anymore.
Has anyone ever seen Grandma's Boy? It has an actor named Swardson or something and he is funnier than a bag of funions. He was also the stalker in Blades of Glory, and I think he was in Reno 9/11.
What do you mean no werewolves?
Congenital Hypertrichosis Languinosa is a real disease. If they are saying that people with CHL exist, and they are often called werewolves because of their disease, then that would be right.
If they are saying that only-die-with-silver werewolves exist, that MIGHT be a stretch, but I have never tried to stab a CHL patient with anything non silver, so I can't even be sure on that.
I would say so far all you have shown me is that Pravda provides information about real medical diseases and how people can be horribly mislabeled and shunned because of it.
Does Pravda have any stories that aren't truth? So far I only have a n of 1, but they are 1/1 on completely accurate and scientifically backed news articles. Thank you Pravda.
If that's the case then I have about 2 score of monsters to smoke check.
Maddox had a nice thing to say about vampires.
I can't stand vampires and people who claim to be them. If there are real vampires, then there should be real vampire hunters. I don't have a beef with Mr. Tepes because I think we can all agree that impaling 20,000 people on stakes as a negotiating tactic is sufficiently awesome. What I have a problem with are these 14 year old losers who hang out at raves wearing prosthetic fangs, listening to obnoxious happy-hardcore dancing with giant platform shoes (courtesy of "Hot Topic," because all vampires shop at trendy clothing stores for their pre-packaged sub-culture needs). When they're not busy doing the dishes for their allowance, they're out doing evil things like smoking, staying up past curfew, or reading books on the occult at Barnes & Noble. They join little "sanguinarian" clubs and they change their names to something adequately evil like Raven, Ivy or Memnoch. -maddox
Hmmmm. Vampire hunters? I like.
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