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Bubr Posted 23 years ago
Culture

Russia

Hello everyone!

I like this fourm a lot, but I was confused to have found little mentioning of Russia and (sorry if wrong!) no Russian people here. Either the world is too big, or the forum too new to embrace the whole world Emotion: smile

While travelling abroad recently, I found it too difficult to explain to people the main things about my own country, to emhasise the most important. Probably, there is too much to talk about. But this is a great chance I have here - to find out what foreigners think about us.

Do you associate it with the former Soviet Union? What Russians do you recall first when you think about Russia? What objects, qualities or places do you imagine to be the main 'trademarks' of this country?

I would be very appreciative for your oppinions!
  

Top answer

Hello Bubr, hello Russia! The first comes to my mind about Russia is its magnitude in dimensions, then, the cold weather, then its importance in History and its Music. The Russians who I recall first are Rimsky Korsakoff, , Stravisnky, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Glazunov ahhh y Kabalevsky!!

  • Hello Bubr, hello Russia!
  • The first comes to my mind about Russia is its magnitude in dimensions, then, the cold weather, then its importance in History and its Music.
  • The Russians who I recall first are Rimsky Korsakoff, , Stravisnky, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Glazunov ahhh y Kabalevsky!!
  • y Prokofiev!!
  • I don't have asnwer for the third question, you tell us!
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Hello Bubr, hello Russia!

The first comes to my mind about Russia is its magnitude in dimensions, then, the cold weather, then its importance in History and its Music.

The Russians who I recall first are Rimsky Korsakoff, , Stravisnky, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Glazunov ahhh y Kabalevsky!! y Prokofiev!!

I don't have asnwer for the third question, you tell us!
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I always see Russia as HUGE with a lot of spaces in the middle. It's very cold in Winter (which helped defeat Napolean and Hitler) and in some parts if you pour boiling water out of a kettle onto the ground, it will freeze before it gets there.
I don't associate Russia very much with the old Soviet Union. That was a thing of the past. Times change.
The Russians have very good sportspeo
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Thanks to Elena for the great list of artists. I would probably add Glinka, Musorgsky and, probably, Schostakovich to musicians. And I would definitely name some scientists like Mendeleyev (periodic system), Landau (superconductivity, advanced quantum mechanics and the great 10-volume book that the professional physicists in whole world seem to use) , Tsiolkovsky (the rocket engine idea). By the
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Hi Bubr,
Russia reminds me of my childhood. As you know the Union Soviet supported Vietnam a lot in the war against the French. When I was a little girl, I used to listen to Russian songs, watch Russian films and read lots of Russian stories and love them very much. Now I have some friends who are from Ukraine and Belarus and I can find that they are really really friendly...And I still hav
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Hi, Linh!

It's a difficult topic, really. Yes, some moments of our world's past make me stumble, especially the history of wars. I just cannot imagine how the people, the mentally healthy and friendly people I know now could have been going killing each other in the most cruel ways. All wars of the *** century, especially the last ones in Vietnam and Afganistan seem some kind of deliriu
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I was born in Russia, moved to the US when I was two, but I've never really lost touch with Russian culture. I still speak the language fluently (though reading and writing is a bit of a challenge now unfortunately) and my parents are regularly hosts to gatherings of Russians in which much vodka is consumed and many songs are sung.

I'll have to say that Russians do perpetuate many of th
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Bubr, souls have no nationality. But I understood what you ment. As far as the mutual advantage of the Russians and other nations living together, it may be true for the Georgians and Armenians but definitely not true for Estonia or the other Baltic states for instance. My students enjoyed reading you. Thanks a lot.
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Hm... Interesting, what your students think about Bubr, as a person?

I have just one association - propaganda, propaganda and one more time - propaganda. Somebody in Moscow run new "internet" project ...

PS Sorry for mistakes, English is my second language

"Bog v pomoj" ...
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I was born in russia, and i lived and studied there for 13 years... but i am not russian, and now i live in spain
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