18 August 2014. Politics Through a Cartoonist’s Eyes…

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18 August 2014. WTF! It’s Got to be Russia!

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The above is a real-life izba (Russian log house)… it’s not a museum exhibit. People actually live in it… and, let me tell ya, izbas are WARM n’ COSY in the wintertime… Russians do know a thing or two about cold. Why the colour? That’s simple… when snow covers the ground from November to March, it makes it easy to find home when it’s all white, the wind is biting despite wearing a quilted jacket and furs, and it’s -20 (-4 Fahrenheit) outside. People do things that they do for a reason, kids… WTF! It HAS to be Russia… you can’t understand it with your mind, you can only accept it for what it is…

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7 August 2014. WTF! It’s Got to be Russia!

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For them not in the know, the lettering says “Bread House” (literally, “House of Bread”) in Russian. That be one proud baker! As a wise old Russian baker once said, “Fool’s words! Bread… or the lack of it… that’s what makes history!” I wholeheartedly agree… WTF! It HAS to be Russia… you can’t understand it with your mind, you can only accept it for what it is…

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7 August 2014. A Photo Essay… Our Great Russian Motherland… VDNKh is 75! URA!

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The famous Russian exhibition centre VDNKh celebrated its 75th anniversary. A wonderful fireworks display capped off the event. Feel the atmosphere…

VDNKh is “Exhibition of Achievements of the People’s Economy” in English… it resumed its Soviet-era name this year. Slowly, but surely, Russia is telling the West to “get rooted” as it returns to the verities of its Tsarist and Red paths. G A Zyuganov has spoken of a “Red Tsar”… I think that he speaks truthfully and prophetically… after all, isn’t V V Putin the “Big Kahuna” amongst statesmen? That’s why the West wants to take him down so badly… unfortunately, none of their leaders are of his stature… silly wabbits.

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