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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 21:54:13 -0500
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From: richard svinkin <rsbg+@andrew.cmu.edu>
User richard svinkin on remote host, getafix.mmp.andrew.cmu.edu, says:
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I think that your pages are not bad, but they could be improved.
Message from guest...
I enjoyed the pictures and I liked some of the commentary.
I am pissed at the way you adress and render some of the people,
as if they are cartoon animals, or residents of a zoo.
You obviously have no appreciation of the history, which you only
trace back to the Khan's, and you seem to exalt in the fall of
the Soviet Union, as if you had anything to do with anything.
Please refrain from exploiting your gracious hosts, without whom
there would be no such page.
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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:41:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Richard T Svinkin <rsbg+@andrew.cmu.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970416014129.13979B-100000@solar.cini.utk.edu>
Hey,
I mean the way you render the titles of the links, like "Eccentric old
man's house" or native "hut" the way you phrase your descriptions
gives the user the impression that the people he/she is learning about
are primitives. Simply put, they are not, last I heard God (or
whomever) did not say that the modern automatically means new and
improved. Any significant knowledge of history should lead on to such
conclusions, each civilization has it's benefits and it's costs, but we
of the American viewpoint, see what we want to see; we make no attempt
at understanding the people, we point out their interesting cultural
quirks and then universalize by relating their mechanisms of living to
our own. I'm not attacking you, plenty of people have these problems,
and significantly in America, not only Europe. It's just that I do not
use the Web often, and with exception the pages I come across that match
my interests almost always provide me with great visual information, and
ludicrous, infantile insights and understandings. The key to
understanding is respect. Also, please try and at least mention the
chronology of Russia, beyond just the Khans. Hundreds of Central Asian
Turkic tribes, have had significant affects on Russian culture and
history. For Example, the Volga Bulgars, the Khazars, the Magyars, and
the Don Bulgars. These cultures were hunnish in racial mixture, and
defended (until defeated) the lands of what is now called Russia,
Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, and even Bulgaria and hungary, from
invading Norse and Teutonic tribes, as well as the last hunnish clans
from what is now known as Germany. Without mention of these peoples,
and their eventual influence over Russian culture (which if you did the
research you would find out) you frame the history of Russia for the
user, and pretty much imply that "civilization" started witht he
withdrawl of the Mongol hordes. That is simply not true. The word
Olga, is said to come from the name Helga, a norse name. Plenty of such
words in the Russian and other river Slavic languages include the stain
of nordic invaders, also the words, symbols and folklore, etc. Please
I'm sure you have heard of all these and have access to the actual
research, of which I do not remember all off hand.
Thanks for reading, if you've got this far.
Good luck with your page.
Peace
Richard
REPLY to Richard:
I was a bit embarrassed to receive your message.
I'm unsure that I understand correctly your phrase:
> I am pissed at the way you adress and render some of the people,
> as if they are cartoon animals, or residents of a zoo.
Please note that those captions to pictures were provided
not by RusPhoto, but by
Larry Jandro
who took them in Magadan, GULAG and somewhere else in
the eastern part of Siberia. "All Regions of Russia by
Pictures" only provided LINK to his collection from the
page about Siberia.
As for your other notes, please take into consideration that the
history page provides links only to information which is
available NOW free of charge. As soon as information about
other periods of history will be available, of course RusPhoto will
also provide the corresponding links.
Anyway, thank you for comments.
All the best,
Mikhail.
If you are looking for additional textual information,
you can return back to
Impressions of Russia and the Former USSR.
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