Posted on 05/14/2015 2:01:36 PM PDT by Kaslin
Mr. Putin must be a real charmer, he got German chancellor Merkel to lay a wreath with him at the tomb of the unknown soldier.
I like commie stuff too, brought a Mosin-Nagant from Vietnam & have a pistolet Makarov & a Nagant revolver. SKS, too.
Is the “Nashi” group still popular? I was a big fan of Oktyabrianna once.
I have SKS too. Haven’t heard about Nashi for a long time.
My favorite youtube song is “Podmoskovnye Vechera” - the original.
Have you learnt it from Uzbekistan? :)
You are almost right! Young Uzbeks admired everything Russian when I was there so I asked them about “Moscow Nights” but they did not know that title.
Later I learned that the music authorities insisted it be called “Evenings in the Moscow Suburbs”.
BTW in Samarkand there is an enclosed block around the old Orthodox church where all the signs are still in kirilitsa.
True. Samarkand is quite a spot. It is very old and represents quite a rich ancient culture. People used to laugh about Uzbeks but they were quite an advanced civilization ahead of any Arab counterpart including Iraq at the time. It was basically a center of Islamic Golden Age in medieval.
I learned over there that the 1,001 tales of Scheherazade in the so-called “Arabian Nights” were originally published in Samarkand. Very likely in that golden age.
However, the Uzbek girls told me that Aleksandr Makedonsky paused before invading India to take an Uzbek wife. And that Uzbeks with blond or red hair got that from Macedonian ancestors.
Xorosho......!
;^)
Arabian Nights are 100% borrowed from Shaherizada. A lot of other Arabian things are actually of Uzbek origin. As for Alexander many of them consider him Uzbek too, probably because he has spent a lot of time there(which is quite silly but you would find him on any Greatest Uzbeks list anyway).
The Uzbyechka’s told me that their national heroes were either poets or conquerors.
Saw Tamerlane’s tomb in Samarkand. There was a curse on anyone who disturbed it. Stalin did, and then the Nazis invaded.
I remember “Moscow Nights” on shortwave as the repeated melody before the broadcast began. It was the first ten notes.
On youtube the Gilberto Serodio post of Podmoskovnye Vechera is the original 1956 recording.
Not only that. Avicenna and al-Kharezmi both Uzbeks who lived in a first millenia are probably among the greatest scientists ever. The latter was first who theorized modern decimal mathematics and brought the concept of algorithm on which computer codes are working (he did it 1200 years ago). He also was an astronomer and cartographer, making maps which are very precise even by European standard of 17 century.
As for Tamerlane tomb I don’t know is it true or myth but as far as I know an Intourist hotel was getting built nearby and on June 16, 1941 a water pipe was damaged by earth moving machinery. in order to save it from flooding it was decided to excavate the site and move relics including mummies of Tamerlane and his relatives to Moscow.
There was a warning written on a tomb that the one who disturb his rest would unleash unimaginable troubles and there won’t be peace on Earth anymore. There was some mysticism around Tamerlane for locals and Muslims started rioting over this fact but excavation took place anyway and ended on June 21, 1941. Hitler invaded on a next day.
In 1942 Stalin ordered to load Tamerlane’s bones into aircraft and flew it over Germans. It has allegedly improved morals of Muslim troops on Soviet side.
Wow, what a story about Tamerlane’s tomb!
Speaking of Muslim riots nearby, in 1985 I wrote my master’s thesis called “The Ethnic Factor in the Soviet Army Officer Corps”. One of my sources (CIA pub) had mentioned draft riots in Karshi in 1916 when Imperial army began drafting Uzbeks due to terrible Russian losses in WWI.
Thousands of Uzbeks were killed each day in these riots. Nowadays I am unable to find much info on the Karshi incident on the internet, for some reason.
How strange that I would later be deployed to Aviabaza Karshi Khanabad just outside Karshi, with the U.S. Army.
Stalin was much more willing to sacrifice the lives of Ukrainians, than Russians.
Take it and like it, lib.
Looks like Pooty-Putin wants to follow Stalin’s lead.
Millions of Ukrainians perished in the NKVD-caused famine of the early 1930’s. It was understandable that they would welcome the invading Nazis as liberators.
Ironic that N.S. Khrushchev, son of Ukrainian peasants, would become Soviet premier following the death of Stalin. For his role in the famine exterminations, Khrushchev was already well known as “the hangman of Ukraine”.
Stalin was not even Russian & spoke the language with a thick Georgian accent.
My take was that Khrushchev felt so guilty about what he had done, that he gave the Ukrainian SSR, the Crimea, to try to win them over. Of course back then, it was meant more as a symbolic gesture, little did he know the ramifications it would have many years later.
Christian Science Monitor———Dec. 19, 2012
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I don’t think you are being honest here, Russian troll. I am not surprised at all that some “Russian patriot” will take on this professor. “Bloody glasses wearing intelligent from pindostan who looks like a jew”. As for other pedestrians not stepping up an stopping the beating ... this is just not something that Russians do.
‘“Bloody glasses wearing intelligent from pindostan who looks like a jew”’
You should contact author and recommend him to include this wording into his next opus and improve his lies. Too bad he haven’t mentioned any of the above and you had to step in.
‘As for other pedestrians not stepping up an stopping the beating ... this is just not something that Russians do.’
I ‘d bet you are completely wrong and it is just opposite. I don’t remember I ever saw a brawl here without interference of complete strangers. People here loves to put their noses into someone else business and I don’t actually think it is a good thing. Moscow might be somehow different from the rest of Russia as they tend not to see anything around (or pretend they don’t see a thing) but certainly not to the point described here.
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