I came across this link accidentally. Strange, I never heard of this monument: http://www.thuleab.dk/images/stories/div/Russian9-11Memorial.pps#321,2,Russian Tribute to USA Artist Zurab Tesereteii
They may be friendly but, keep your left hand on your wallet and your right hand on your submachinegun! JUST KIDDING ABOUT THE WALLET THING :lol: :lol:
I did some business with the Russians back in the nineties before the company established a sales company in Moscow, and I can tell you, you better keep one hand on the wallet as well. Contrary to westerners, the Russians hardly eever smile during negotiations. Their stoneface appearance make you think you are attending a funeral, and you can only hope it's not your own. On the other hand, if they are smiling you better be on alert. The more they smile, the less they are to be trusted.
It depends. If you meet them socially they are very much different. RAM did you travel to Russia? Has anyone else here been to Russia or the USSR? (besides me?)
Freebird, ive met several Russians both here and in Germany. The ones I met in Germany were really fine people. Two of them were pretty women-one blonde-haired an blueeyed just like me, the other brown on brown-both VERY good-looking and looked nothing like the grey-clothes wearing overweight babushkas you might see in an old commercial. One of the Russians I met here in the STates was a WWII vet who said he served @ Stalingrad. This guys name was George Kessler. He lived in Corpus Christi and we met at a gun show-he was selling all-kinds of Russian goodies. He told me he had a few genuine WWII russian uniforms-and wanted me to meet with him a week later when he had time and he would show me those uniforms. I met hima week laer and he had Russian uniforms, but nothing about any of them were WWII-and at that time? I knew almost nothing about WWII Russian stuff-and then even I could tell you his stuff was cheap shoddy crap. The good thing about this guy was that he was jovial and accepted whatever came his way. Oh and, I didnt buy anything from him as my "gut feeling" told me his stuff was crap. It tured out I was correct because at another gunshow, he was kicked out for trying to sell fake garbage as the real deal and having it advertised as such. Turned out a local and VERY knowledgable WWII Russian items collector was able to prove everything on Kesslers tables were falsely advertised repo crap. The same items on his tables were the same things he showed to me that day we met.
