Craner Explains What Happens Next

luka

luka

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will we be able to finally defeat Russia and fold it into the New World Order soon do you think?
 
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luka

luka

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or do you think there is something irreducibly Asiatic in the Russian mindset that requires subordination to a tsar like figure?
 
luka

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This extraordinary monument to Peter the Great (unveiled in 2001) is a short walk along the river path from the centre of Greenwich, overlooking Deptford Creek. According to the Russian/English dedication it is ‘a gift of the Russian people and commemorates the visit of Peter the Great to this country in search of knowledge and experience’. For a few months in 1698, as part of his ‘Grand Embassy’, Peter stayed in the area to study shipbuilding in the famous Deptford dockyards, which had been built in 1513 by Henry VIII. Visitors to the statue often remark on its odd setting, in a modern housing development, and on the smallness of Peter’s head.

This striking monument is well worth tracking down. A tall, rangy Peter holds a pipe and a telescope and looks out over the Thames, his expression unreadable. He is flanked by a comedic dwarf, a throne, and parapets featuring Russian and English inscriptions, cannon, sea-monster heads, a mysterious triangle filled with balls, and depictions of food and drink. The singular look is the work of two Russians, architect Viacheslav Bikhaev and sculptor Mihail Chemiakin. Some of the unusual style of the work can be put down to Chemiakin’s interests in the playful and the grotesque. There is a companion sculpture in St Petersburg; this time Peter is sitting on his throne, minus dwarf, but he’s still inscrutable.

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Leo

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stories about how he's been in extreme isolation for the entire pandemic, maybe going a bit loopy.
 
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