The comment by the locals is so funny. What would happend if we drill a hole through earth? Link Lake disappears, baffling villagers Thu May 19, 1:15 PM ET MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian village was left baffled Thursday after its lake disappeared overnight. ADVERTISEMENT NTV television showed pictures of a giant muddy hole bathed in summer sun, while fishermen from the village of Bolotnikovo looked on disconsolately. "It is very dangerous. If a person had been in this disaster, he would have had almost no chance of survival. The trees flew downwards, under the ground," said Dmitry Zaitsev, a local Emergencies Ministry official interviewed by the channel. Officials in Nizhegorodskaya region, on the Volga river east of Moscow, said water in the lake might have been sucked down into an underground water-course or cave system, but some villagers had more sinister explanations. "I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us," said one old woman, as she sat on the ground outside her house.
Good. I still don't trust them. Everyone who grew up in the eighties and earlier remember how scary the Soviets were. I'm not sure everyone is over that.
I'm back in the USSR You don't know how lucky you are, boy Back in the US Back in the US Back in the USSR
Funny, growing up in the 80s, my curiosity was piqued regarding the Soviet Union by Reagan's Evil Empire speech. So, I started studying a lot about communism and focused on Soviet history in college. Reagan actually made me sympathetic to the Soviets.
You think you're tough? You eat beans every day? There's a handful of scarecrows left in Denver give anything for a mouthful of what you got.
Mr. Big Red sickle & hammer. You have been reported to Homeland security. Be prepared to spend some quality time in Uzbekistan getting your toe nails pulled out and be part of a naked human pretzel.
In college in 1988 a friend had a T-shirt with a big Soviet tank on it. The caption said on top of the tank, barrel pointing at you, "Soviet World Tour". Below the tank said "Coming to a town near you." Ah the Cold War. Good times, good times. Back when you knew who the enemy was and they spoke a language without any vowels.
