Exatreides
22-Jan-2009, 07:53 PM
So, I get the other half of my enlistment bonus this year which should be right around $8,000.
But, why spend it on Silly capitalist trinkets and wasteful technology, when I could head to the glorious...
SOVIET REPUBLIC OF BELARUS!
Why Belarus you ask? Well A few reasons, first of all I hear everything is quite cheap, crime is low to because of that whole dictatorship thing. The fact that the KGB is still called the KGB in Belarus.
The fact that it's the last echo of the cold war in Europe. I grew up when the cold war was already a thing of the past, so to be able to see part of it still alive intrigues me.
I mean how many countries still do this?<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ivASIwtHALM&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ivASIwtHALM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
I would like to spend some time in Belarus, then head up to St. Petersburg and take the trans-Siberian railroad to Vladivostok and fly home from there, but that's probably uber expensive, so I'll probably just stay there.
That and this
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i115/exatreide/Family.jpg
That's a picture of my family taken in Pinsk in the early 20th century. That little boy in the top right is my great grandfather. I would like to see if any of that side of my family survived two world wars, Nazi persecution against Jew's and the oppression of the Soviet Union.
Good Idea? Bad Idea? Who wants to come with?
But, why spend it on Silly capitalist trinkets and wasteful technology, when I could head to the glorious...
SOVIET REPUBLIC OF BELARUS!
Why Belarus you ask? Well A few reasons, first of all I hear everything is quite cheap, crime is low to because of that whole dictatorship thing. The fact that the KGB is still called the KGB in Belarus.
The fact that it's the last echo of the cold war in Europe. I grew up when the cold war was already a thing of the past, so to be able to see part of it still alive intrigues me.
I mean how many countries still do this?<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ivASIwtHALM&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ivASIwtHALM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
I would like to spend some time in Belarus, then head up to St. Petersburg and take the trans-Siberian railroad to Vladivostok and fly home from there, but that's probably uber expensive, so I'll probably just stay there.
That and this
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i115/exatreide/Family.jpg
That's a picture of my family taken in Pinsk in the early 20th century. That little boy in the top right is my great grandfather. I would like to see if any of that side of my family survived two world wars, Nazi persecution against Jew's and the oppression of the Soviet Union.
Good Idea? Bad Idea? Who wants to come with?