Every country of the Soviet East European bloc hated Russians. And every one of them, with the possible exception of East Germany, hated the Communists. Within the old Soviet bloc; the Balkans, Bulgaria and much of the former Yugoslavia, Poland,…
Category: History
My Dad was a Racist…But
Of of my most interesting lessons about race I learned while sharing a tent in a heavy rain storm during officer’s training with a black guy, namely that black people had the same sorts of notions about the strange ways…
How Things Work
After spending 20 years learning how things worked on the upper floors of government (military) bureaucracy and Fortune 500 corporate management I spent another 20 years at the other end of the economic and social spectrum in the collapsed communist…
The “Union” in United States; Thomas Jefferson “Out-Subtles” Napoleon
Every school kid knows, or at least used to be taught, about Thomas Jefferson’s purchase of “Louisiana” from France for15 million dollars in 1803. That was $18 per sq sq mile or a little under 3 cents per/acre. Wow! School…