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Silent Hunter
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« on: March 07, 2008, 03:19:39 PM »

Hello, friends!

See if you can guess why I started this today.
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« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2008, 10:18:18 PM »

It's May Day?
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« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2008, 10:40:25 PM »

This shall be very fun indeed Grin. Thanks for starting this up Silent Hunter.

BTW: When exactly does Medvedev get sworn in? I know his inauguration takes place sometime this month.
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« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2008, 10:42:08 PM »

This shall be very fun indeed Grin. Thanks for starting this up Silent Hunter.

BTW: When exactly does Medvedev get sworn in? I know his inauguration takes place sometime this month.

In fact, no it doesn't. It's in May, May 7th IIRC
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« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2008, 10:44:55 PM »

This shall be very fun indeed Grin. Thanks for starting this up Silent Hunter.

BTW: When exactly does Medvedev get sworn in? I know his inauguration takes place sometime this month.

In fact, no it doesn't. It's in May, May 7th IIRC

That's an outrage! CNN told me lies, sweat little lies. Conor is fuming now!
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« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2008, 06:52:36 AM »


Now, what happened 91 years ago yesterday?
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« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2008, 07:01:23 AM »

Jazzist Lee Young was born?


Nothing else important though.  cite


(or one of us is bad at math...but I don't see anything around 1917 that has anything to do with Russia)
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« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2008, 07:03:33 AM »

Does the term "Red October" mean anything to you?
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« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2008, 07:05:05 AM »

The Revolution.
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« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2008, 07:19:01 AM »

this?

But March 7th certainly isn't special there.  My Google Fu is pretty strong, but the only thing of any specific relevence with March 7th 1917 was the first "Letters From Afar" written by Lenin.  cite  But they don't seem that important, fan's have yet to put a wiki page on them.  (although I guess they could be fairly important on the Lenin page, but I'm getting a little bored of the whole thing)
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« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2008, 07:21:54 AM »

this?

But March 7th certainly isn't special there.  My Google Fu is pretty strong, but the only thing of any specific relevence with March 7th 1917 was the first "Letters From Afar" written by Lenin.  cite  But they don't seem that important, fan's have yet to put a wiki page on them.  (although I guess they could be fairly important on the Lenin page, but I'm getting a little bored of the whole thing)

What happened before "Red October"? Who did the Bolsheviks replace?
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« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2008, 07:22:42 AM »
« Edited: March 08, 2008, 07:25:10 AM by dead0man »

Red September?

According to wiki, Russian Provisional Government.
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« Reply #12 on: March 08, 2008, 07:23:36 AM »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_Revolution

That's what started, actually today, 91 years ago.
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« Reply #13 on: March 08, 2008, 07:25:31 AM »

Yeah, I already posted that.

So it's the 8th now?
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« Reply #14 on: March 08, 2008, 07:26:54 AM »


Yes, I got the date one day off.
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« Reply #15 on: March 08, 2008, 07:27:50 AM »

Aye.  Don't do that with the wedding anniversary or you'll really be in trouble. Smiley
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« Reply #16 on: March 08, 2008, 01:39:57 PM »

Nobody actually cares about the February Revolution.
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« Reply #17 on: March 08, 2008, 01:47:17 PM »


Well, I do. Historically, you can't understand October without February.
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« Reply #18 on: March 08, 2008, 02:11:04 PM »


Well, I do. Historically, you can't understand October without February.
Well, no one one cares about history. Smiley
Seriously, are me and Silent Hunter the only people who knew this?
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« Reply #19 on: March 08, 2008, 07:07:10 PM »


Well, I do. Historically, you can't understand October without February.
Well, no one one cares about history. Smiley
Seriously, are me and Silent Hunter the only people who knew this?

I knew it and of course the February Revolution is important historically, but no one actually celebrates the anniversary in Russia or anywhere else.
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« Reply #20 on: March 09, 2008, 04:08:31 AM »


Well, I do. Historically, you can't understand October without February.
Well, no one one cares about history. Smiley
Seriously, are me and Silent Hunter the only people who knew this?

I knew it and of course the February Revolution is important historically, but no one actually celebrates the anniversary in Russia or anywhere else.

I think there was a movement in Russia to commemorate, but failed revolutions are usually not celebrated.
And cool name (Is your father's name John). Smiley
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« Reply #21 on: March 09, 2008, 07:49:51 AM »


Well, I do. Historically, you can't understand October without February.
Well, no one one cares about history. Smiley
Seriously, are me and Silent Hunter the only people who knew this?

I knew it and of course the February Revolution is important historically, but no one actually celebrates the anniversary in Russia or anywhere else.

I think there was a movement in Russia to commemorate, but failed revolutions are usually not celebrated.
And cool name (Is your father's name John). Smiley

It did overthrow the Tsar. It just went highly wrong afterwards.
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« Reply #22 on: March 09, 2008, 11:12:17 PM »


Well, I do. Historically, you can't understand October without February.
Well, no one one cares about history. Smiley
Seriously, are me and Silent Hunter the only people who knew this?

I knew it and of course the February Revolution is important historically, but no one actually celebrates the anniversary in Russia or anywhere else.


And cool name (Is your father's name John). Smiley

Why thank you. Yes his name is John. Wink
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« Reply #23 on: March 12, 2008, 10:43:46 AM »


Well, I do. Historically, you can't understand October without February.
Well, no one one cares about history. Smiley
Seriously, are me and Silent Hunter the only people who knew this?

I knew it and of course the February Revolution is important historically, but no one actually celebrates the anniversary in Russia or anywhere else.

I think there was a movement in Russia to commemorate, but failed revolutions are usually not celebrated.
And cool name (Is your father's name John). Smiley

It did overthrow the Tsar. It just went highly wrong afterwards.

I agree, it went highly wrong, but they tried something with good intentions. Now it's us to learn from their mistakes, and from those of others, to envisage and maybe to create new good interesting things, unless thinking that current ideals are wonderful, won't carry any problems and are the final stage of the Humanity...

Well, no one one cares about history. Smiley

I unluckily have to agree.

Oh yes, peoples sometimes care, the time to answer a question in a TV or a Radio game...

Concerning the current Russia and its past, it seems its way is to dream about the power of the Old imperialist Russia and about the one of the Stalinist USSR. They take all what is powerful in these periods, they say these periods was wonderful because they got power and they dream to recreate such a new period for Russia with these old ones as references. It would also explains Putin's popularity which seems to be real and well spread in Russia.

P.S.: Thanks for this thread Silent Hunter. I wanted to open one on Russia but I wasn't sure to can update it each time it needed. 
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« Reply #24 on: March 14, 2008, 02:26:59 PM »

A bit dated, but still quite funny.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3466775.ece
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