Letters to the Editor
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Our filth
I am a veteran of eight years in the armed forces, who now lives with my Russian wife (we met while studying in Boston) in Moscow (because it seems like the freer of the two countries right now).
I cannot tell you how angry I became when I read ToshiroTzu's comment on this article:
"Eastern Europe and Russia are fucked up and they're spreading their filth onto our shores."
What he fells to grasp is that before we pushed the Soviet Union into falling and then aided the chaos and separation in the 90's - there was none of this in Eastern Europe or Russia. The "filth" - prostitution, poverty, homelessness, drug and aids epidemics, crime, and capitalism-run-amok - these are our own filth - the hallmarks of our "vaunted society and culture" - spread to Eastern Europe and Russia like a disease and now washing back up onto our shores. If Eastern Europe and Russia are "fucked up" right now (and Russia at the very least is much better now than it was in the 90's!) - than surely we are at least partially responsible for that situation...after all - we've been covered in this filth for decades...And Eastern European and Russian women are hardly the only ones being sold into slavery around the world - as Americans, we need to look no further than our own shores. What a great role model to the world we are - Now everyone is becoming more like us.