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This is the exact recording I just bought! This is just incredible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wDai9s4Hmc be sure to click for subtitles
they used to pull barges by manpower, men in teams on the banks of canals
🥺https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_the_Volga_Boatmen#/media/File:Ilia_Efimovich_Repin_(1844-1930)_-Volga_Boatmen(1870-1873).jpg
my heart really is with Russian people, I hope they can truly get rid of despots
( thank you for attending today's history lesson )
Russia has an amazingly rich cultural heritage. Which has been excluded from the west by the US. Most of the music I listen to comes from either russia or ukraine. The war is shit. But Russophobia is real. While people lap up any kind of crap from the US, I always remember more than half the people who voted, voted for trump not long ago. Russian people don't have that choice. They are gaslit and terrorised by criminals into having to live lives of poverty. I'm definitely all sunshine and lollipops today huh? I'll try and be more positive tomorrow.
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Thanks. It's not been a great day in some respects, but I have a lot of gratitude for a lot of things also. Like that I can vent here. It's beneficial to not bottle things up and wait until exploding point.
I don't know if it's any consolation but less than half the voters voted for President Trump in 2016. Their democratic system is broken, but their politicians won't fix it because the broken system keeps them in power.
Total votes for Donald Trump in 2016: 62,984,828 (46.1%)
Total votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016: 65,383,514 (48.2%)
It's a moot point, but you're correct hahaha. My point really is many people lap up every bit of vaccuous american marketing in australia, but still see russian people as bad cos that's america's marketing also.