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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))5/17/2016 2:04:10 am PDT

re: #208 freetoken

Russians appear upset at that Eurovision thingy… too complex for me to follow, but I guess they feel slighted?

My girlfriend and our Australian neighbor watched it, yes, it seems that the Ukrainian entry was about the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944 (as punishment for having collaborated with the Germans) and this was seen as a dig at Russia in the name of every country they have ever invaded or occupied.

And of course it was seen by Stalin as entirely fitting that the entire ethnicity should be punished and deported.

I have been in Europe for over 25 years, but Eurovision and Soccer are two socio-cultural institutions I have tried and failed to appreciate.