The world is a fascinating place with a bewildering array of differing places and peoples. The sheer diversity is overwhelming and makes for an endlessly interesting field of study and research. Personally, I love nothing better than immersing myself in another culture when travelling or simply reading about foreign places and exotic peoples.
I have travelled extensively in western Europe and to some degree around Australia, my current base. So far, I have not been to Eastern Europe or farther into the Ukraine or Russia. Certainly, these are countries with a turbulent history and I would love to see some of the sights around places like St. Petersburg or Moscow or Kiev.
I came across an interesting site about the so-called holodomor, which made me think about the sometimes tense relationship between Russia and the Ukraine. I could never judge the level of this being a mere outsider and bystander but the site I referred to above makes be want to delve deeper into the history of the Soviet Union and modern day Russia.
The sheer size of those countries cannot fail to impress. I used to live in a tiny country, namely the Netherlands so at that time almost any other country seemed to be so much bigger. But a country like Russia with its millions of inhabitants is something else altogether, I tend to think.
I have travelled extensively in western Europe and to some degree around Australia, my current base. So far, I have not been to Eastern Europe or farther into the Ukraine or Russia. Certainly, these are countries with a turbulent history and I would love to see some of the sights around places like St. Petersburg or Moscow or Kiev.
I came across an interesting site about the so-called holodomor, which made me think about the sometimes tense relationship between Russia and the Ukraine. I could never judge the level of this being a mere outsider and bystander but the site I referred to above makes be want to delve deeper into the history of the Soviet Union and modern day Russia.
The sheer size of those countries cannot fail to impress. I used to live in a tiny country, namely the Netherlands so at that time almost any other country seemed to be so much bigger. But a country like Russia with its millions of inhabitants is something else altogether, I tend to think.
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