The Sot Union - The First Insights

The first time i went to Russia was as a schoolboy in 19 69. I loved that sort of ry er, angry humor about the shortages that were affecting people. And one thing that did strike me was that it was very hard life that people were living there but actually they had developed the sort of psychological defence mechanisms to cope with it. That kind o was a bit of an eye openera made me then want to carry on studying russian so i did. The other thing that alsot things in perspecti was having friends on both sides, you now, very close russian friends. So, you know, i hear all this anti russia rhetoric nowadays, and i