Back in the USSR Boys

After the fall of the Soviet, in the early 1990's, there was a unique period  when Russia's Communist World had all but disappeared. Russia had a sense of freedom that was self enforced, it was an updated version of what we perceived as the American West (not the Wild West, but a civilized, free west). Everything possible was bought and sold openly. Hotels were full of  beautiful "dance hall" girls, there was casino style gambling in the lobby level and under many a man's coat was a shoulder holster. There was little violence. Most everyone seemed very respectful of each others rights and personal space. Good manners reigned. 

Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin hugs Mikhail Kalashnikov

It couldn't last though. Russia was stuck with it's long term Czarist-Stalinist past and habit of having a permanent secret police and corrupt politics to enforce State order, unfortunately. m/r

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You know you’ve entered a Strange New World when Pravda makes more sense than the American MSM regarding gun “control:”

Ed Driscoll » Back in the USSR

By Ed Driscoll On January 9, 2013 @ 9:44 pm In Muggeridge's Law,Oh, That Liberal Media!,The Future and its Enemies,The Gulag Archipelago,The Making of the President,The Memory Hole,The Return of the Primitive | Full Short Post

You know you’ve entered a Strange New World when Pravda makes more sense than the American MSM regarding gun “control:”

These days, there are few things to admire about the socialist, bankrupt and culturally degenerating USA, but at least so far, one thing remains: the right to bear arms and use deadly force to defend one’s self and possessions.
This will probably come as a total shock to most of my Western readers, but at one point, Russia was one of the most heavily armed societies on earth. This was, of course, when we were free under the Tsar. Weapons, from swords and spears to pistols, rifles and shotguns were everywhere, common items. People carried them concealed, they carried them holstered. Fighting knives were a prominent part of many traditional attires and those little tubes criss crossing on the costumes of Cossacks and various Caucasian peoples? Well those are bullet holders for rifles.
Various armies, such as the Poles, during the Смута (Times of Troubles), or Napoleon, or the Germans even as the Tsarist state collapsed under the weight of WW1 and Wall Street monies, found that holding Russian lands was much much harder than taking them and taking was no easy walk in the park but a blood bath all its own. In holding, one faced an extremely well armed and aggressive population Hell bent on exterminating or driving out the aggressor.
This well armed population was what allowed the various White factions to rise up, no matter how disorganized politically and militarily they were in 1918 and wage a savage civil war against the Reds. It should be noted that many of these armies were armed peasants, villagers, farmers and merchants, protecting their own. If it had not been for Washington’s clandestine support of and for the Reds, history would have gone quite differently.

But then, this isn’t the first time in recent weeks that Pravda has been a refreshing alternative to the American “We Are All Socialists Now” JournoList MSM.