Broke my heart seeing the news this morning. Such an inspiring comrade and amazing historian. He is now in the Great Lecture Hall in the Sky.

Is Harvard really that good?

I am glad I am not the only one who felt like God was setting them up for failure. The whole story is also a lot shorter than I remember, it feels like in Catholic school it was more impactful than it actually seems to be. It’s a cool story but also frustrating.

Lilith is a very interesting and mysterious figure to me so I will definitely look into her more, thank you for the guidance on where to look!

Oh wow, I am glad I clocked how strange the “our” was. I had no idea about any of this so thank you for sharing, if I remember I will bring it up to my professor to see what she has to say.

I always felt that the only way the US would change for the better is through war on US soil. I do not want that to happen but considering the history of that country, it’s the only language that is listened to. I probably sound terrible, but I just do not know how else to word this.

Okay so this is terrifying. I feel like we are nosediving into something incredibly big but I also do not want to sound paranoid. Is the US really willing to fight a war with Mexico? Right at the US border?

I watched the first episode last night and I’m already waiting in anticipation for the next one!

I should’ve been more specific about the second language requirement. I plan on going to a Canadian university near me as I don’t want to leave just yet (money is the main issue). The university I have chosen states that for a history masters you need to know the language of the country you are researching. So if my research topic is based around Russia then I need to demonstrate that I know enough Russian to read the sources; if my topic is Cuba then I need to show that I know a decent amount of Spanish. I believe only reading is the most important factor, not speaking.

For what it’s worth they did not say I had to be fluent, just proficient. I need to contact graduate studies to know the specifics because they didn’t say whether they’d train me during my masters or if I had to know the language beforehand. Either way it’s always good to get a head start.

If you are a student with a first language that is not English then you need to do a special test and share the scores with your application, but this doesn’t apply to me.

Including or excluding 1848?

Including, so nothing from 1849-onwards.

Yeah it’s pretty bad over here.

The student meant “English Canada”. He phrased it very weird as it’s more like English-majority rather than English-owned. So his example was Quebec stealing Anglo-Canadian land.

Regarding the money thing, I believe it was about typical government spending like pensions. Russia had to step in with stuff like that.

I totally agree that plays are nice due to being almost completely dialogue, but having to write an analysis based off of them on top of the work I’d have to do for other classes just wasn’t worth it. Maybe in further semesters I will be able to balance the work load better but for now I have to spread it out and prioritize.

I must’ve meant 2008 but my written notes say 2004, I think my professor misspoke and I wrote it down.

I will be applying to all of them regardless of how I perceive my worthiness. My downer thoughts are pretty strong but that won’t stop me from going for it, I will just have fear lol

I do know those things about him lol

He was pretty evil, but liberals love his ass.

Thanks, I feel documenting my experiences in a Canadian is interesting to give people insight into how it works over here, as well as having a chronicle of my life that I can come back to read.

Katchanovski is a tough scholar for me, not because I do not like him, but because he is so hated by other Canadian scholars. Last time I mentioned him to a professor I was told that he was spreading “Russian propaganda.” So I tend to avoid talking about him now, although I will say that I did mention him in my final essay, specifically this snipers thing. It clearly did not dock me any marks. I appreciate you sharing his scholarship on this topic. I remember reading some of it a while ago but I will give it another go when I am able to.

Every time the bombings are mentioned, seldom is the Soviet threat to Japan ever uttered. It is quite frustrating but I honestly believe that many of my professors are just unaware of this factor to the surrender. I also did not know that other Japanese cities suffered similar outcomes as Hiroshima and Nagasaki regarding destruction levels.

I have been in the fandom space for many years, since I was a young teenager, and in my experience I have only ever see this discourse happen on twitter (it happens on Tumblr too but to a much lesser extent). I wonder if it has to do with COVID, more people came online and I know there has been an uptick in media literacy issues which adds to the problem.

I see people, specifically fandom “veterans”, talk about how a lot of “normal” fans got involved in fandom spaces during COVID and it led to clashes as people do not seem to understand the etiquette. I do not like using the word “normal,” but its the only term I can think of to describe people who watch TV/movies/read books and then move on (those that don’t read fanfic, make/like fanart, peruse forums and whatnot).

I wonder if it has to do with the fact that I guess Pride parades are not really protests anymore? In the western sense there are big floats and dances, performances and the like which Moscow Pride may have been hesitant to do since it is not culturally ingrained? I do not really know what was meant here but all I can think is that parades are for militaries while other marches and such are for whatever else. Regardless, I don’t think a pride parade would go over well in Russia, then and now, because they never had their own version of “stonewall.”

From what I can remember of my research, Russian LGBT organizations were split on the pride parade issue, many did not want to do unauthorized marches and did not like the involvement of western LGBT orgs. The event happened anyway and a large amount of the participants were western activists. Again this caused friction as Russian activists did not believe the western model was good to replicate in Russia.