Posted on 02/07/2014 1:22:27 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
The 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, officially kicked off Friday with a massive ceremony celebrating the host country’s storied history.
From Peter the Great to “Swan Lake,” many of Russia’s finest figures and achievements were given a chance in the spotlight.
But the Russians also paid tribute to the country’s reigning political doctrine of the 20th century: communism.
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Would have been nice if they’d detonated those images after introducing them.
Mock-ups for Barry’s 3rd inaugural.
Beat me to it!
While I agree these sure look like the mid 60s type things you would see in the media from the U. S. S. R., I don’t see them in the same light today. People in Russia have it hard, and I think the government is merely trying to instill pride in folks who work hard. It would actually be a bit refreshing to know our government actually knows the middle-class exists in the U. S. These days they’re too busy trying to figure out how to take away more of what these ‘vile people’ unfairly earned or came by during their lives.
And the difference between this and the London Olympics opening ceremonies paying tribute to the National Health Service is that the NHS didn’t kill quite as many people?
int commie just wassist white boy wid a hammer
It’s got such a creepy, evil look about it.
That’s just it:
It has a LOOK to it that is inexorably linked in the American mind to the Soviet Union. But to Russians, is it simply... Russian?
I love Swan Lake.
“Mock-ups for Barry’s 3rd inaugural.”
Maybe B.O. can work out a deal to rent them from Putin for a week.
It’s no worse than that “Salute to the NHS”
at the London Games.
Nailed it.
Punchline involving the phrase “Springsteen Concert Footage”
commencing in 3.....2.....1......
They thought Obama would attend the opening, so they wanted to make him feel at home.
Is the top guy Al Sharpton?
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