Posted on 04/08/2022 6:24:48 PM PDT by libh8er
In the fall of 1993, I began my first semester at NYU. Just one year earlier, I’d been a regular Moscow teenager, whose wildest ambition was to own a nice pair of jeans. But my father had been offered a job at an American company, and our family relocated to New York. With the move, the world suddenly opened to me, possibilities beckoning. My father, ever the practical man, told me to study business. Ever the obedient Soviet child, I didn’t protest, despite the fact that nothing could interest me less — but fortunately for me, there was no such thing as a business major at NYU, and, when I got my BA in philosophy, I moved back to Russia, leaving my parents and younger brother behind. The fact that I did so was testament to how profoundly I’d changed in four years.
I was barely 20, but my reasons for returning were clear. I’d fallen in love with a man who lived in Moscow, and I longed for the glorious city which I still considered to be my home. In 1997, Moscow was an exciting place where everything was changing at an incredible pace. New lives were being built on top of the remnants of the USSR. I also felt drawn to Russian intellectual culture, having started writing my first novel in Russian, and I wanted my child, whom I was already carrying, to speak my native language as fluently as I did.
My marriage to the father of my son didn’t work out, as was perhaps expected of a union between people so young. But I was busy becoming who I wanted to be — a writer and a mother — and quickly bounced back. Meanwhile, Russia continued to change.
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This sounds like one of those “I’m a lifelong Republican, but I hate Trump so now I’m voting democrat”
I’m not a Russian, but I think Putin is an asshole.
Fixed it.
Ask 8 out of 10 Russians how they feel, and it will be directly opposite of what this person writes.
She'll figure it out, eventually.
“In the fall of 1993, I began my first semester at NYU.”
No need to read further. However, it’s worth noting that Russians who thought like her (and hated Putin) are pretty much switching to pro-Putin, or at least neutral, due to the IDIOCY of Western Sanctions, particularly the ones shutting down their credit cards, McDonald’s, and Starbucks. These are the same people the Bidenistas were counting on for ‘regime change’ in Russia...so no more of that. Oh well.
NYU
A typical Russians as backward and poor. Go to a random village in Russia. Outside of cosmopolitan areas in St. Petersburg and Moscow. That person is the typical soldier in the Russian Army. A barbarian. Uncivilized. An ogre. A goblin.
Everyone has a plan till the globalist Cancel Crowd finds out you're a Russian national.
taken from "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."
I certainly don’t blame the Russian people. I don’t even blame the young Russian soldiers although that gets harder every day. Good to know that half the Russian people didn’t approve of the capture of Crimea.
U.S has more than it’s fair share of rednecks. Difference is, a Russian redneck can find America on a map, but not vice versa
"How can that be? No one I know voted for Nixon!" - Pauline Kael
Dear diary...
Of course, when Hillary called us that, she used the term Deplorables.
NYU's Stern School of Business is real and has an undergraduate division. Obviously she is a scatterbrain. Whether she's a loveable one or just an annoying one I don't know, but I don't know why anybody would care much about her opinions or her life saga.
Me too. And Zelensky and the oligarchs who run him.
Hey, Svetlana, what is your Backdoor ID?
The trolls are so easily baited, aren’t they?
Good article, btw. Thank you for posting it.
Once they put on the uniform, they're the enemy. So if they surrender to the Ukrainians, then yeah they're off the hook.
They are slaughtering civilians and raping them. Just Russian things.
That's why they are not winning friends nowadays.
I don't think USA should be giving weapons to Ukraine. Europeans should do it (and they are).
We don't need to piss off Putin and it's not our neighborhood anyway. But yeah, Putin's a thug. And he needs to be bloodied. It looks like the Russians will get their @$$es kicked just like they did in the Winter War and the Russo-Japanese War.
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