[lbo-talk] Russia: Communists Pick The Party's Top 3

[Michael Simkin]

> CB: In the original context, do you mean all Russians are anti-Semites
like
> most white people are racists ? they just know how to hide it ? Just drink
> with some of those Philistine Americans some time.
> ---

or you can read refined Faulkner:
" a [here he uses an offensive word by which people of his views are calling
African-Americans] is not a person so much as a form of behavior; a sort of
obverse reflection of the white people he lives among."


>
> That was cetainly the context. He gleaned this magnificent insight into
the
> Russia of 2003 by reading Gogol.
>

May be the hartfelt song that I was quoting is now extinct, but it was still
popular in early nineties.
Do you believe it could possibly be composed in Gogol times?

I don't see any similarities between what I wrote and Gogol's prose, apart
from the power of expression.