Hey, Ptak and other Russia haters...can you force yourself to at least give Bobko one "I didn't know that..."?
Sorry, Rich. When accolades, and admission of a mistake, are deserved, I will apologize and admit to my mistake, but this is not the time or the place.
With me, what you see is what you get. All me 100% no Google or Wikipedia as a crouch as a practice by Bobbko.
Likable fellow, my favorite Russian, eloquent, intelligent but a fake never the less. Instead of using his knowledge derived from numerous books, he claims to read.
Like a baby, he runs unsuccessfully to Google for help to prove me wrong. Rich, I am a product of numerous books I have read and decent memory, so the need for Google rarely arrives. I do not question Bobko's claim of a vast readership, but can he claim to donate 45 books that I donate every half a year because my
bookshelves are so crowded I run out of space? But back to the crux of the disagreement, I firmly stand by my statement that dishonest manipulation of the truth
for the propaganda and justification for their crimes are embedded in the Russian psyche. Inheritance from the Soviet system and shamelessly used today.
So again, 97% of the vote does not exist in the real world, provided we do not grab for straws and use a silly argument of the stamp-size rock, the ancestral land of
of Pawian's family or the faraway group of islands, so far away it only takes on the wrong step, and they tumble over the edge of the earth.
Get real, Rich. I am talking about the countries, not some rock inhabited by monkeys. Even Chechnya would overwhelmingly vote for remaining
as part of Russia, remove the tanks and heavily armed toughs, and you would be surprised by the reversal of results.