The Russians Are Coming

[poliphilo]

I grew up during the Cold War. I remember playing a game called "Russian spies" which involved talking in a silly voice and brandishing crayoned drawings of space rockets. My friend and I never could figure out what Russian spies actually did. It was fun drawing the space rockets but the rest of it palled very quickly.

So I've got this conditioning. Russia is the "Evil Empire"- all that Reaganite crap. 

But

When I was a little older I discovered the Russians had written the best books in the world. Later I found out they'd also made some of the best films.

AND they defeated Hitler.  Yes they did. We helped out at bit, but they were the ones who fought the biggest battles and took the biggest losses. 

So LJ is now owned by the Russians. 

Yes I know the President of Russia is a scary bloke. (So is  the President of the USA if you hadn't noticed.)

But he's less likely to want to kill us- right- now we're his customers.  

We live in a global economy. And in a global economy this is what happens. Russians also own Chelsea football club and much of London.
 
The shop's new owner has a funny accent. Get over it. 

A capitalist is a capitalist is a capitalist. Are you trying to tell me  Russian capitalists are intrinsically more evil than American capitalists? (Or British capitalists, or Australian capitalists). That's silly. Go read some history. 

Comments

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

You're saying that people's journals were cut and/or disappeared without their consent? There's a lot of self-censoring going on, I know.

[dadi.livejournal.com]

techno_goddesss was simply cancelled from one moment to the next, her IP blocked and she never got any whatsoever information or warning or whatever about WHY. We have been friends for years, and her journal is certainly a lot tamer than mine.. I really have no idea, nor has she, what can be behind this. Others have most of their entries behind cuts, without any idea why (I am talking about people writing about their birthday presents, others about singing auditions, others about job search). Totally weird.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm not seeing any of this in my corner of LJ. I'm not even seeing any flags (whatever they are). I'm bewildered. What exactly is going on?

[jenny_evergreen]

I don't know about your one friend, but I DO know the thing about the cuts; anyone seeing that sort of thing needs to go into their settings page and go down to the Adult section and set their choices to "do not filter" and rate their own journals as they think appropriate, etc.
The automatic settings are not ideal.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

This is completely and absolutely disturbing.