Posted on 06/19/2006 4:50:11 PM PDT by dennisw
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=82755
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=82755&page=2
Lots of good photos. Check 'em out. 2 samples ---->>>
The particularity of the cities is the lack of cars. Everyone is walking, sometimes they take packed public transportatins made of tramways, trolleys and even 2 storie buses. The bicycles are rare and expensive.
The pedestrian zebra is original.
Oh, ok.
I misunderstood your linking comment.
I appreciated the photo.
This photo thread caused the spike? Who is black rain and moderator extraordinnaire? They aren't FReepers
Where did their spike comments appear?
Morning Bump
Are there any hot women there?
yeah - it's called Communism.
RE: no cables.
That could be a good thing if they ever get their crap together, they can start with newer wireless technology etc... but it will probably not happen in my lifetime.
There now... that's better.
What an improvement.
EMP would NOT be a good thing for their military should war start.
Er, continue.
They never actually even got a treaty stopping the 50's war.
There are none. If they were you wouldn't have the money anyway. a six-pack Get serious It would probably taste like it was brewed though a horse. Now If you are a party member, you could get most anything. You know, its a classless society.
Same goes for the Cubans living under Castro.
I wonder how many of those structures are actually built-out. The majority of the place might be like a Hollywood "back lot" fascade. Or, perhaps a better analogy would be Patton's "invasion army" in England. Inflatable tanks, all that stuff.
Several movies have been mentioned, and I'll add one - the whole damned place looks like the opening sequence of "Joe Versus the Volcano" - except these poor people don't even have the luxury of the permanently flickering flourescent light.
posted in the source links you provided
Agreed. I, myself, have seen it in the faces of people I've met in Romania and elsewhere. Residual fear (what if it comes back?), anger (how will I be made whole for my losses?), shame (how did we let this happen?), resentment (why should you, who are no better than I, have been spared?), and grief (it happened, it can't be undone). The greatest crime of the leftists, which is also the great crime of Islam, is to see the individual as something to be molded and shaped and trained by the force of an outside authority. Our way is to hope that each will strive to be his best by his own volition, given freedom and the Word. The results differ as night differs from day.
Elena’s amazing motorcycle visits to Chernobyl, diary and many photos
"Something's creepy about these pictures..."
No kidding...everything looks dead.
SWEET!
Wow, for sure, very gray, like a cemetary. And the absence of people, of activity. No cars or bikes moving about, no laundry hung out, no planters of flowers, like a ghost town.
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