I'm sure the comparison has its limits, but I found it to have some value.
Plus I always enjoy your diaries because the warm my own Russian history-loving heart. If I wasn't linguistically-challenged I might have made 20th century Russia/USSR my PhD field instead of the 20th century USA.
When I was a teenager and read Crime and Punishment in high school I was sure I was Raskolnikov. Perhaps I still am - haven't read the book in about 15 years. And the world will live as one
Now people are probably going to read that and think I mean murderers, unfortunately... "Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms." -Dostoevsky
