re: Christmas in Moscow

Something about political ideology over the years.

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It's always interested me how Russia and the U.S. have long been foes

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We haven't been foes. It was hype created by a propaganda machine in Soviet Russia. Soviet Russia never had the balls or the money to do anything but create misinformation.

In my public grade school, the teachers told us how the Russians did not allow religion and brainwashed their children. Our teachers were hardcore protestants who hated some Russians.

Then they had all us kids stand and do the pledge of allegiance and sing a patriotic song like My Country 'Tis of Thee. Later, the teacher would lead us in prayer before lunch.

It took me a few years to appreciate the irony.