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This is a dangerous oversimplification. What people learned in between 1963-ish to 1985-ish there is that mass media shovels shit wholesale, and so cannot be t
by lstodd 5y ago
This is a dangerous oversimplification.
What people learned in between 1963-ish to 1985-ish there is that mass media shovels shit wholesale, and so cannot be taken at face value under any circuimstances and that if you style yourself as a connoseiur of shit, you're free to join the field of kremlinology.
This approach is sorely lacking nowadays.
- simplestats 5y agoI think it was a joke.
- rpmisms 5y agoYou have encountered Russian humor, congratulations. It's very dry.
- sriram_sun 5y ago"They pretended to pay us and we pretended to work." - From my ~68 yo ex-colleague from USSR who lived through the times. Despite that wry comment, he was brilliant and had a Phd. in optics from Moscow University and for whatever reason had to reboot his career as a level 1 technician when he came over to the US. Also, was promoted 5-6 levels up within a year (at Seagate I believe).
- lmilcin 5y agoYou haven't lived through communism so you are forgiven for not getting the joke even if it was pretty obvious one.