STUCK ON WHINE: A response to the TOL Blogs article: BELARUS- STUCK IN TIME

This article should have been called STUCK ON WHINE, not STUCK IN TIME.

Intravenous begins by complaining about the upcoming Minsk "Festival of Soviet Cuisine" but doesn't bother to attend the festival before passing a negative judgment on it and attempting to invalidate it.

The author continues to lament the presence of Lenin Statues, Stalinist Baroque architecture, Socialist Sculptures, the KGB, the soviet newspapers, and even complains that the Great October Revolution is still a holiday.

The author then goes on to attack the soviet identity documents and passport and travel regulations that are functionally analogous to American Drivers Licenses and Passports.

I was actually shocked at the nerve of Intravenous to complain about Belarus taking an interest in the clothing and fashion sense of its nation's youth. (Imagine the nerve of a country to want its youth to be properly and tastefully attired! -- LOL ) Now, I personally don't know what fashion choices are going to be promoted by Minsk, but they are most certainly going to be in better taste than what is being displayed by a giant percentage of our own countries young people. But perhaps Intravenous would prefer the youth of Belarus to take fashion lessons from what American young people are wearing, perhaps our young people here in American could also teach the Belarusian youth about MUSIC appreciation, and perhaps civics, and study skills and personal morality could be the next few international "in" services we could export to the youth of Belarus.

Intravenous closes his/her WHINE-A-THON by stating " This crumbling but still standing statue of Lenin's Pioneers in one of Minsk's courtyards made me think of a " Belarus Stuck in Time" . All readers should look at this photo and notice it is was clearly not shot in Minsk, and it was probably shot somewhere in an abandoned EXCLUSION ZONE, and not in Minsk at all.

So, Intravenous doesn't like Belarusian food, hates Minsk architecture, has no respect for the holidays, and enjoys making fun of the passport rules and employment laws. My big question for Intravenous is "What are you doing in Belarus at all?" You hate everything, you imply the country is terrible, why are you there?

Don't worry Intravenous, maybe your "EMPLOYERS" will "POST" you to
a destination more to your liking on your next "TOUR".