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Originally Posted by Rebellion";p="
Sky blue eye shadow
The ZaZ automobile
The shotgun makeup applicator
Grey clothes
Gruel
Three hour long lines for toilet paper rations
A few that come to mind.
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Funny but didn't the Mayans have a maize gruel before the USSR was around?
Or how about the absurdity of queueing for Petrol in an oil rich nation.
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Hasanain Akram, 34, a doctor who was waiting in a petrol queue, said: "I expect that the new plan will make things even worse because both the Kurdish and the Shia troops from the south will only serve their sects and their people. I think if the Americans want to solve the problems in Iraq they should change the Iraqi government because it's causing the main problems in the country. I'm very pessimistic as everything is bad in this country and there is lack of basic life needs: no electricity, no petrol, not water.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle1291888.ece
I thought the US was teaching the Iraqis to be democratic and not how to be like the Russians?
Don't know about the US but in Britain we used Zeiss Jena (made in East Germany) equipment (stero comparators) to measure up Spy satellite imagery because it was the best in the world.
which reminds me there was also the silent Submarine built in Vladivostok and the Mig interceptor (termed Backfire in the west) that could intercept the US spy planes quicker than any US fighters of the time.