RantWoman continues to find Vladimir Pozner fascinating. RantWoman appreciates his insights, disagrees at some points, and could be even more scathing at others.
Random Full Disclosures:
Random Full Disclosures:
RantWoman has twice, once in Pittsburgh, and once in Leningrad / St. Petersburg been in live audience at different Phil and Vlad events and both times either had to interpret or answer some question on behalf of others.
RantWoman is trying to keep her feet on the ground in terms of "don't mess with mah SPRANG BREAK" memories. Granted, Odessa, Kiev / Kyiv, and Moscow are not generally thought of as spring break destinations but this IS Planet RantWoman. Odessa featured a tour led by a very drunk veteran of the "Great war of the Fatherland" through the Odessa catacombs (Wikipedia it) and a soulful conversation over wine about "peace love and chewing gum." Kiev featured a sort of scary glasses repair where the optician pounded a screw into a glasses hinge with a large wooden mallet, an experience that cemented RantWoman's love of twist-ties for subsequent such repairs. There was also a highly stylized evening playing the Russian version of Trivial Pursuit rigged so the US visitors would of course win. Imagine recognizing the sale price of Manhattan from a list of objects handed to RantWoman.
"I'm sorry, you want to shange dollars into rubbles?" the sales pitch of street level unofficial foreign exchange traders has a whole new dimension considering current circumstances. Note to self: see how the Ukrainian currency is holding up.
"I'm a PhD student and I'm studying genocides," according to an audience member, is not a statement RantWoman can ever imagine herself making--even though OF COURSE the world absolutely needs that sort of PhD student.
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