When I walked around in the cities in Russia, I got the same feeling I had when I was a kid and opened the front door to the sunshine of an endless summer. "I can do anything!"
The US reminds of what the USSR was, and vice-versa.
If you want to serve in Red Army for a year, you can get Russian citizenship.
But your comment reminds me of an experience I had at the airport in Samara, Russia. I was ready to board to come back to "The World" and security would not let me board. My one-year visa expired on September 10 but I thought it expired on October 9. I had arrived at the airport on on September 11, a day late. Of course I had gotten the American "10/9" mixed up with the Russian/European "10/9". Security would not help me, someone from Lufthansa came over and told me I had 10 days to pay the fine. So I went back to the city, gathered up all the documents, notarized, and at the police station, they assessed the minimum fine - about $75 and I got back to the airport on the 9th day....
I keep thinking this is the reverse of prudent immigration policy- it would be like forcing unwanted immigrants to STAY, not LEAVE. :)
This could be one of La Estúpida's policies - when she catches an illegal alien, heavily fine the guy, register him to vote and force him to remain in the US.
Stanislav Mishin wrote a scathing article on the US's slide into Communism, which was printed in Pravda, on 4/27/2009. Pravda was once THE voice of Communism for the entire world. Now, the Russians are afraid of the US becoming a Communist country. Things have changed a lot in the last 40 years.
According to RT, the countries eligible will be announced on Sept. 1.
This column relates the experiences of some who have already moved:
movingtorussia@substack.com
It strikes a chord similar to that of Tsar(ina?) Catherine the Great who attracted the Amish (Mennonites) from Germany by offering them free plots of farmland, and no taxes, in the sparsely-populated south of Russia, or the US Homestead Act of 1862.
These all had some political underpinnings, and this on is no exception, offering an option for those who may feel they are being persecuted by the woke culture
Russia Russia Russia. No surprise , to most here that aren’t Jewish (they hate Putin) . In fact Putin is hated by the MSM as much as Trump. Putin has correctly stated that the west has been taken over by a bunch of Satan worshipping pee do’s as leaders. Woke is Marxism( Prussian) . The war we are in is Worldwide . Sovereign vs Globalist. Good vs Evil. Putin is part of the sovereign alliance thinQ BRICS plus Saudi (MBS) .
The US reminds of what the USSR was, and vice-versa.
But your comment reminds me of an experience I had at the airport in Samara, Russia. I was ready to board to come back to "The World" and security would not let me board. My one-year visa expired on September 10 but I thought it expired on October 9. I had arrived at the airport on on September 11, a day late. Of course I had gotten the American "10/9" mixed up with the Russian/European "10/9". Security would not help me, someone from Lufthansa came over and told me I had 10 days to pay the fine. So I went back to the city, gathered up all the documents, notarized, and at the police station, they assessed the minimum fine - about $75 and I got back to the airport on the 9th day....
I keep thinking this is the reverse of prudent immigration policy- it would be like forcing unwanted immigrants to STAY, not LEAVE. :)
This could be one of La Estúpida's policies - when she catches an illegal alien, heavily fine the guy, register him to vote and force him to remain in the US.
Pravda was once THE voice of Communism for the entire world.
Now, the Russians are afraid of the US becoming a Communist country.
Things have changed a lot in the last 40 years.
This column relates the experiences of some who have already moved:
movingtorussia@substack.com
It strikes a chord similar to that of Tsar(ina?) Catherine the Great who attracted the Amish (Mennonites) from Germany by offering them free plots of farmland, and no taxes, in the sparsely-populated south of Russia, or the US Homestead Act of 1862.
These all had some political underpinnings, and this on is no exception, offering an option for those who may feel they are being persecuted by the woke culture
almost enough for a Russian Squad
:-)