The Russian Journal by Steinbeck is a timeless reading about the US-Russia relationship, fake news, and the people diplomacy. How much do you know about it?
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Replying to @ChiefScientist
I suppose you mean this Russian Journal as quintessential fake news itself: left-wing journalists letting KGB handlers guide them and write the names of anyone who'd blab to them, then taking the result at face value. Give me some Custine.
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Replying to @fare
Hmm my reading so far does not suggest they are gullible. I love Custine as much as anything on Russia, and these guys did a good job reporting what they saw as they declared. Obviously Custine had more access and venom, & Steinbeck style is why America beat France in the world.
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Replying to @ChiefScientist
They don't need to be gullible to literally become mouthpieces of the regime (though still foreign mouthpieces, which is a happy change from the domestic ones). Custine was already a survivor of a France that was beaten by a communist dictatorship, a century before Russia.
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Replying to @fare
I bet that Toqueville would not have written as Custine did. Custine is considered a father of the Russophobia, although there are many such accounts preceding him, a British one very funny, about Ivan the Terrible's marriage proposal to the Queen of England and an embassy for it
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I'm sure Russophobes will use and cite Custine, but I don't believe Custine himself to be a Russophobe. You must love your subject to truly care and see through its foibles. Love is not blind approval. Blame is neither hate nor fear.
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Replying to @fare
True, he got an edge that is his style. Always entertaining.
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