Moscow Memories

One of the most interesting cities I have ever visited was Moscow; it just had a different feel. It was chaotic and busy. The people's attitudes bordered on very friendly to melancholy. I saw old men with Soviet medals pinned on their jackets protesting and missing the Stalinist days. In the restaurant at the Hyatt near Red Square gangster types sat at tables ordering Dom and posing with bevies of slicked up babes.

I reread Stalin by Edvard Radzinsky recently and was again fascinated, it is said that the cult of Stalin is once again reappearing in Russia. If you read a school book during his reign here are some things you would have learned.

The steam engine wasn’t invented by Watt but by a Siberian workman named Polzunov.

The electric light bulb was given to the world by a guy named Yablochkov and radio by Popov, not Marconi. The Wright brothers were not the first to successfully have a test flight it was a Russian named Mozhaisky. Pravda means truth in Russian anyway.