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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Replying to @ChiefScientist @fare
The French parasitic class in the Russian court was cynical, its job was to be the opposite of Russians, and it grated on the poor guy.
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Replying to @ChiefScientist
Now imagine the French parasitic class in the French court...
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Replying to @fare
Well the Revolution happened not for nothing! These guys escaped to Russia then.:)
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A great mistake would be to confuse antipathy for the revolution with sympathy for the toppled ruling class.
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