Oh no, I didn't mean to imply that it was primarily the Russian women who were at fault. As you pointed out, it's the men who primarily make the lives of most Russian couples hopeless, and unproductive of offspring.
One of the funny things about the Western Left is that it managed to so-idealize Russia yet never grasped how many of its own prejudices were inflicted upon them by the Russians specifically to render them ineffectual. For instance, at the same time as the Western Left was turning against atomic energy, civil defense and spaceflight, the Russians were boasting in their popular magazines about nuclear power plant, shelter and spacecraft programmes. The very theories of diplomacy and war which I learned as a young man, and which the Politically-Correct dismiss as "right wing propaganda" came, in large part, from the Soviet academies. In some narrow ways, the Soviets were highly rational thinkers: unfortunately for them, life isn't totally like a game of chess.
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Date: 2013-07-11 02:25 pm (UTC)One of the funny things about the Western Left is that it managed to so-idealize Russia yet never grasped how many of its own prejudices were inflicted upon them by the Russians specifically to render them ineffectual. For instance, at the same time as the Western Left was turning against atomic energy, civil defense and spaceflight, the Russians were boasting in their popular magazines about nuclear power plant, shelter and spacecraft programmes. The very theories of diplomacy and war which I learned as a young man, and which the Politically-Correct dismiss as "right wing propaganda" came, in large part, from the Soviet academies. In some narrow ways, the Soviets were highly rational thinkers: unfortunately for them, life isn't totally like a game of chess.