God Jul! Hyvää Joulua! I looked up the russian version as well but it's WAY too hard to pronounce so I'll just say merry christmas to you in russian too (but what the hell is that word you have? i wanted to give you good christmas greetings but no Scandinavian can pronounce that word you have for god jul :( )
It's "Hej" :)
Kak dela? (someone from my work taught me how to pronounce it but it's probably not spelled like that, can, you understand it?)
Yup I'm superexcited, but it's so new that I haven't really "digested" it yet. I don't know what to think about it, should I be scared of a studio change ruining it or something else? I don't know. I kind of feel liike "whatever". A new season is just good.
And yup I'm so happy I'd just like to share it with someone :) (damn I feel like jumping up and down) I hope your special shows will get the same treatment.
Great to hear, thanks for getting back :)
And about Natsume - thanks for holding back because you know I love it, and I would have been so thrilled if you did too and we could share things about it but like I always said it's OK to let me know if you didn't like it (i already know you didn't).
But it's like getting an unexpected new season of K-ON, it's that level of happiness. Sadly I didn't even complete K-ON yet so I don't if it's even feasible to make a new season. Would it be possible and would you like a new season of it? Or would it ruin things?
Nevermind my last comment. Interesting about the flags, but I have to question the first fact that Finland's flag is based on some Russian Naval ensign, do you have a source? I question it because they use the Nordic cross like all other Scandinavian countries (even though Finland isn't Scandinavia) and then choose the colors and the meanings behind themselves.
Anyway what's up? Hope you're doing good. I'm good, because I just got this random notification that.. Natsume is getting a 7th season!!!! :O
I never expected that, I'm so surprised and happy. I wish we could share it but as far as i remember Natsume was never a real hit with you :)
It's looking good for our finnish boys, maybe they should demand Karelia back next?
In a similar matter that Russia views Ukraine as "it's territory", Karelia was in a very real sense finn territory until conquered, and so what?
You don't need to mention "(Space Program)", I know who Gagarin is. The Soeviet Union managed to do something great then, followed by the US who put a man on the moon and then proclaimed victory. I didn't know putting boots on the moon was the ultimate goal so I always wondered about that proclaimed "victory", but whatever.
What the Soviet Union did, sending a man into space (and a dog, lol) was also great. I wish we could have been close enough to send congratulations, but I guess it wasn't meant to be.
Sweden doesn't even share a border with Russia but Finland does, and during the entire cold war we were very wary of the Soviet Union.
We let some of that go after it's collapse but it's sad to see Russia still keeping on with the invasion conquest shit that should be left in history.
Sad and sickening.
And hard to understand. If they could finally once and for all stop being the "untrustworthy neighbour" (as we have known them to be for centuries) then both we and them would benefit. I never understood why Russia didn't take that path.
Here's another banger, Finska Rytteriets Marsch performed beautifully (if you don't understand the title, use Google translate): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbxUpgWMBwE
And also, sorry for asking all these questions and sometimes holding you accountable.
Damn you.. always getting back to me with thoughtful and level-headed responses. I'm glad about learning but it also means I have to spend time to think about it and get back to you. F*** that shit. LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE-HEADED MONKEY! *runs away*
There's a reference in there somewhere. If you or any of your aquiantances recognize it, it would make my day. If not well.. "d'oh!"
Ok, apparently some points do not come across well at all in written text on the internet.
I don't think current day Russia is communistic. I think it probably has some socialist parts embeddeed, but I don't know enough in detail. I think they have/had lots of cleptocrats, people who get in power grab what they want and steal. That's kind of my view of current Russia.
Hmm.. my reply was a bit disjointed because your previous reply was hard to read and structure (wall of text).
The EU was meant to stabilize things and tie nations together, and Russia is crushing that. You seem protective so I don't know if it makes any difference to you, but I still have a dream of visiting Russia some day (that dream has now been crushed) and I also know the people can't be blaimed for what the leader does. Atleast that's what I thought until things started getting really scary and you (a russian MAL friend) started trying to justify it. :(
I think we have lots to talk about. I have no bad associtations to the word "socialism", but I think other people do. But my possitive associtations with it are only from Scandinavia, Communism has been tried and tried again in many countries and as far as I know it has always ended up in tragedy for the people (massacre)
Where did the "single leader" idea come from? I only know of communism in a general sense and Marx, and all I heard was "the people should decide! for the people!" etc. So how in the FUCK do you come up with a single dictator ruler system? I haven't read Karl Marx so I don't know if that was already in the idea from the beginning (impossible) or if the idea just left the leadership question more open (?).
You don't need to convince me why something socialist is good or makes rapid change, I'm not questioning that. I'm questioning Putin and feeling sad about how Marx work turned out in countries all over the world, cause like I said I never read it so I don't know if he had a masterplan for leadership but if he did it backfired, all communist states turned into single leader dictatorships which is extremely weird when it's supposed to be about the people
I can see no reason why the Soviet Union "HAD" to invade other countries for their own protection. Other than maybe placing their capital in the small European part of Soviet Union (for gain, of course). I'd like to know who you learned that argument from so I can punch him in the face. The largest country by landmass in the world needs to conquer more land to be safe? Get the f*ck out of here. I mean really? Really, fuck you.
Then again, there are lots of geopolitcal reasons for the largest country (by landmass) in the world to be afraid, since they were always threatening and invading neighbouring states when they were in power so since they only know themselves, they judge others from that.
As far as I know most other countries in Europe has also always viewed Russia as a threat for a long time, not because of prejudice but because you fucking are and you just proved it!
Hmm.. I read through this one and two times and it's still hard to understand. I do understand you used my sentence against me somewhere in there. Haven't heard about the 1927 military panic before.
In the big one (WW2) your country and people took the brunt of it, and also you probably did more than anyone else to fight back the Nazis. Which will very seldom be recognized in western media. Your guys also did alot of bad to innocents, "The rape of Berlin" is a thing. I read a book about it once and while it was enlightening, in the end, I kind of regretted ever having read it.
Other than that my whole take on Russian history is pretty shaky, we were taught some things in school and most of it I've forgotten.
But getting back to the thing, you use my own words against me. I still don't think I'm wrong - communism doesn't work in the end. In some powerul hands it can have great effect for the people, yes. But in the end there's always a "great leader", a single leader who rules all and does as he sees fit. If you know anything about history you should already see a problem here. Some "great leaders" can actually be good, if you have a good leader your country can work more wonders than even the best and biggest democracies sometimes. But when you have a bad leader.. well history tells us what that's like. And every communist country I know of, including USSR, had a bad leader.
This is the part of you that I have a hard time understanding. You seem to have a love of the old USSR and I absolutely want to ask more about that, but in some cases it looks to me like a "blind" love where you ignore the negatives.
Ultranationalist is absolutely not the image you gave off when we first started talking, you were just a superpositive exuberant happy guy so much that you couldn't help yourself being dragged into your mood, haha.
So eternal strife and war between classes but not nations? I won't sign up for that but it sounds more up my alley. With our social democracy in Sweden I think we did alot of that in a peaceful way. Finland is smart so they looked at us and copied whatever worked, and didn't copy all the stupid ideas.
Why can't you just be content to do like us? Move to Finland you bastard so I'll know you're safe!
Also sorry but I still think Beethoven is more beautiful and one-ups the "internationale", especially the funky version.
What is it called in your country? In mine it's "Internationalen", I know it very closely from my mother who was way more left when she grew up, maybe that fact also shows the incredible spread of communism and it's ideas. I think I inherited from my mother some beautiful ideas about communism and other ideas, because at the heart of it it really is beautiful and well-meaning. It's just that it doesn't work in any way in actual life, all the soviet countries I know had bigot despots as their leaders. Much of their population suffered enormosly.
Why don't you know this and why arent you mad about it? I'm mad about millions of Russians suffering under Stalin, you seem to be in ultranationalist mode about the war. Why aren't you mad that your own fucking people is being used? I would be mad. I am mad, but why do I have to be mad for the sake of your people when you don't even seem to care about the fact? That also makes me mad.
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Fair enough, doesn't sound Finnish to me but I'll let that trump our Hej
I'm glad I got the "Kak dela" right o:
Kak dela? (someone from my work taught me how to pronounce it but it's probably not spelled like that, can, you understand it?)
Yup I'm superexcited, but it's so new that I haven't really "digested" it yet. I don't know what to think about it, should I be scared of a studio change ruining it or something else? I don't know. I kind of feel liike "whatever". A new season is just good.
And yup I'm so happy I'd just like to share it with someone :) (damn I feel like jumping up and down) I hope your special shows will get the same treatment.
And about Natsume - thanks for holding back because you know I love it, and I would have been so thrilled if you did too and we could share things about it but like I always said it's OK to let me know if you didn't like it (i already know you didn't).
But it's like getting an unexpected new season of K-ON, it's that level of happiness. Sadly I didn't even complete K-ON yet so I don't if it's even feasible to make a new season. Would it be possible and would you like a new season of it? Or would it ruin things?
Anyway what's up? Hope you're doing good. I'm good, because I just got this random notification that.. Natsume is getting a 7th season!!!! :O
I never expected that, I'm so surprised and happy. I wish we could share it but as far as i remember Natsume was never a real hit with you :)
In a similar matter that Russia views Ukraine as "it's territory", Karelia was in a very real sense finn territory until conquered, and so what?
You don't need to mention "(Space Program)", I know who Gagarin is. The Soeviet Union managed to do something great then, followed by the US who put a man on the moon and then proclaimed victory. I didn't know putting boots on the moon was the ultimate goal so I always wondered about that proclaimed "victory", but whatever.
What the Soviet Union did, sending a man into space (and a dog, lol) was also great. I wish we could have been close enough to send congratulations, but I guess it wasn't meant to be.
Sweden doesn't even share a border with Russia but Finland does, and during the entire cold war we were very wary of the Soviet Union.
We let some of that go after it's collapse but it's sad to see Russia still keeping on with the invasion conquest shit that should be left in history.
Sad and sickening.
And hard to understand. If they could finally once and for all stop being the "untrustworthy neighbour" (as we have known them to be for centuries) then both we and them would benefit. I never understood why Russia didn't take that path.
Here's another banger, Finska Rytteriets Marsch performed beautifully (if you don't understand the title, use Google translate):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbxUpgWMBwE
And also, sorry for asking all these questions and sometimes holding you accountable.
There's a reference in there somewhere. If you or any of your aquiantances recognize it, it would make my day. If not well.. "d'oh!"
Ok, apparently some points do not come across well at all in written text on the internet.
I don't think current day Russia is communistic. I think it probably has some socialist parts embeddeed, but I don't know enough in detail. I think they have/had lots of cleptocrats, people who get in power grab what they want and steal. That's kind of my view of current Russia.
Thoughts?
The EU was meant to stabilize things and tie nations together, and Russia is crushing that. You seem protective so I don't know if it makes any difference to you, but I still have a dream of visiting Russia some day (that dream has now been crushed) and I also know the people can't be blaimed for what the leader does. Atleast that's what I thought until things started getting really scary and you (a russian MAL friend) started trying to justify it. :(
Where did the "single leader" idea come from? I only know of communism in a general sense and Marx, and all I heard was "the people should decide! for the people!" etc. So how in the FUCK do you come up with a single dictator ruler system? I haven't read Karl Marx so I don't know if that was already in the idea from the beginning (impossible) or if the idea just left the leadership question more open (?).
You don't need to convince me why something socialist is good or makes rapid change, I'm not questioning that. I'm questioning Putin and feeling sad about how Marx work turned out in countries all over the world, cause like I said I never read it so I don't know if he had a masterplan for leadership but if he did it backfired, all communist states turned into single leader dictatorships which is extremely weird when it's supposed to be about the people
I can see no reason why the Soviet Union "HAD" to invade other countries for their own protection. Other than maybe placing their capital in the small European part of Soviet Union (for gain, of course). I'd like to know who you learned that argument from so I can punch him in the face. The largest country by landmass in the world needs to conquer more land to be safe? Get the f*ck out of here. I mean really? Really, fuck you.
Then again, there are lots of geopolitcal reasons for the largest country (by landmass) in the world to be afraid, since they were always threatening and invading neighbouring states when they were in power so since they only know themselves, they judge others from that.
As far as I know most other countries in Europe has also always viewed Russia as a threat for a long time, not because of prejudice but because you fucking are and you just proved it!
In the big one (WW2) your country and people took the brunt of it, and also you probably did more than anyone else to fight back the Nazis. Which will very seldom be recognized in western media. Your guys also did alot of bad to innocents, "The rape of Berlin" is a thing. I read a book about it once and while it was enlightening, in the end, I kind of regretted ever having read it.
Other than that my whole take on Russian history is pretty shaky, we were taught some things in school and most of it I've forgotten.
But getting back to the thing, you use my own words against me. I still don't think I'm wrong - communism doesn't work in the end. In some powerul hands it can have great effect for the people, yes. But in the end there's always a "great leader", a single leader who rules all and does as he sees fit. If you know anything about history you should already see a problem here. Some "great leaders" can actually be good, if you have a good leader your country can work more wonders than even the best and biggest democracies sometimes. But when you have a bad leader.. well history tells us what that's like. And every communist country I know of, including USSR, had a bad leader.
This is the part of you that I have a hard time understanding. You seem to have a love of the old USSR and I absolutely want to ask more about that, but in some cases it looks to me like a "blind" love where you ignore the negatives.
So eternal strife and war between classes but not nations? I won't sign up for that but it sounds more up my alley. With our social democracy in Sweden I think we did alot of that in a peaceful way. Finland is smart so they looked at us and copied whatever worked, and didn't copy all the stupid ideas.
Why can't you just be content to do like us? Move to Finland you bastard so I'll know you're safe!
What is it called in your country? In mine it's "Internationalen", I know it very closely from my mother who was way more left when she grew up, maybe that fact also shows the incredible spread of communism and it's ideas. I think I inherited from my mother some beautiful ideas about communism and other ideas, because at the heart of it it really is beautiful and well-meaning. It's just that it doesn't work in any way in actual life, all the soviet countries I know had bigot despots as their leaders. Much of their population suffered enormosly.
Why don't you know this and why arent you mad about it? I'm mad about millions of Russians suffering under Stalin, you seem to be in ultranationalist mode about the war. Why aren't you mad that your own fucking people is being used? I would be mad. I am mad, but why do I have to be mad for the sake of your people when you don't even seem to care about the fact? That also makes me mad.