Originally posted by lazs2
So far as I can see.. the soviet union was a terrorist organization. I could not live there. I would be imprisoned and probly executed. I doubt they would like my political individualist stance. I doubt they would like me traveling and building hot rods and collecting and shooting firearms. I don't think they would allow me to speak freely.
Life would not be worth living except to try to figure out a way to get out of your country or destroy it from within.
Then US of A is... I don't know what.
Lazs, you never tried to live in Soviet system, that's all. As for collecting a shooting firearms - you needed to live in Stalin's times, they were taken away from the people by "democratic" Nikita. Traveling? - nothing was impossible, if you didn't work in defense. Speak freely?! You could speak and be _heard_, not like in a "free world" where a dog barks and wind blows it away.
Did you read what I posted?
What I meant was: there was no media "sensation", no one was screaming "oh oh horror horror Nedelin was burnt alive!!!". I knew the story when I was a kid, but it wasn't a subject of entertainment media.
I need a glass of something now, one minute pls...
OK, got some cranberry stuff from the fridge, I need to drink it - it's there for maybe 6 months, now it's time. You can find interesting things in our fridge at work.
So, do you copy? Did I express it so you understood what I mean?
Now about anthrax story. Such things should definitely be kept from public, I mean from nation-wide media. People who are well... "influenced" (?) by a disaster get all possible treatment and information from local civilian defense. We are not going to spread panic, are we? A good example: last year some media spread information about a malfunction at Balakovo nuclear power station near Saratov. Next one in chain already said about radiation leak, while they didn't even stop generators there, next one got an "expert" who looked at the personal medikit contents when he was in the Army and remembered Potassium Iodide as an "anti-radiation" pill, so this TV station advised people to take Iodine-containing medicines. "Iodine", a 5% Iodine solution in ethanol (tincture of Iodine) is still widely used here to disinfect small wounds, so people started drinking it, that caused several hundred people hospitalized with Iodine poisoning. This is what I call a "freedom of press" and what I am against.
Did you read it? Was I clear enough this time? Anyway - your health, this cranberry liqueur is better then I thought it is
