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Why Intellectuals Hate Own Countries,Want to Change Successful Systems,Idealize 3rd World Despots
The Lid ^ | 4/6/2010 | Barry Rubin

Posted on 04/06/2010 3:50:49 PM PDT by Shellybenoit

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To: constitutiongirl

I was wondering if anyone would get that one.


21 posted on 04/06/2010 7:24:53 PM PDT by shibumi (FReepMail me to get on the "Hippo Attack" ping list!)
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To: shibumi

I’m a Russian literature junkie.


22 posted on 04/06/2010 7:36:45 PM PDT by constitutiongirl ("Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."---Leo Tolstoy)
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To: constitutiongirl

I guess I used an intuitively apt allusion.


23 posted on 04/06/2010 7:41:58 PM PDT by shibumi (FReepMail me to get on the "Hippo Attack" ping list!)
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To: constitutiongirl

I’ll go you one better.

I’m more into music than literature. My favorite opera of all time is “Boris Gudonov.” (With Boris played by the Bulgarian Master of the Basso Profundo, Boris Christoff.)


24 posted on 04/06/2010 7:46:48 PM PDT by shibumi (FReepMail me to get on the "Hippo Attack" ping list!)
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To: shibumi

I’m impressed.


25 posted on 04/06/2010 7:55:20 PM PDT by constitutiongirl ("Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."---Leo Tolstoy)
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To: constitutiongirl

In college Boris’ death scene was my bedtime music a;lmost every night.


26 posted on 04/06/2010 8:13:50 PM PDT by shibumi (FReepMail me to get on the "Hippo Attack" ping list!)
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To: constitutiongirl

No one, whether a Russian speaker or not, can miss the impact of this scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iucfEGqRSpQ


27 posted on 04/06/2010 11:50:35 PM PDT by shibumi (FReepMail me to get on the "Hippo Attack" ping list!)
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To: shibumi

Great link. Thanks for sharing.


28 posted on 04/07/2010 3:18:27 PM PDT by constitutiongirl ("Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."---Leo Tolstoy)
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