 Editor in Chief Bill   | 02 Sep 2022 1:20 p.m. PST |
…During his televised address, Putin described the 1709 Battle of Poltova — which saw Peter the Great claim decisive victory against the Swedish Empire — as an event during the "Seven Years' War." He was swiftly corrected by Nikanor Tolstykh, a high-school student from Vorkuta, who said the war was not the Seven Years' War but the Great Northern War and that it lasted from 1700-1721… Moscow Times: link |
| Glengarry5 | 02 Sep 2022 1:25 p.m. PST |
And Nikanor was never heard from again… |
 Extra Crispy  | 02 Sep 2022 1:34 p.m. PST |
Slipped out of a hospital window… |
| JMcCarroll | 02 Sep 2022 2:42 p.m. PST |
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| Texaswalker | 02 Sep 2022 6:30 p.m. PST |
Actually, kind of a stupid mistake for a Russian to make, it would be equivalent to a person from US saying that the Battle of Yorktown was an event in the Civil War. |
| Stryderg | 02 Sep 2022 7:00 p.m. PST |
And 80% of Russians wouldn't know the difference. Just like 80% of Americans won't know that the Battle of Yorktown wasn't in the Civil War. |
| Texaswalker | 02 Sep 2022 8:37 p.m. PST |
Sir Gawaine – youre right, just goes to show no matter how smart I think I am, I'm usually wrong. |
| Arjuna | 02 Sep 2022 9:34 p.m. PST |
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| bobspruster | 03 Sep 2022 7:30 a.m. PST |
Good bye, Nikandor. And your little dog, too. |
79thPA  | 03 Sep 2022 10:33 a.m. PST |
I bet his parents are sweating bullets. I think of the mop scene with Richard Dawson in The Running Man. YouTube link |
| Shardik | 03 Sep 2022 2:36 p.m. PST |
"it would be equivalent to a person from US saying that the Battle of Yorktown was an event in the Civil War" But not as bad as talking about airports or the rockets red glare in the American war of independence! |
| Escapee | 05 Sep 2022 7:11 p.m. PST |
And you beat me to it Shardik. Washington's army secured the airports and continued with the ramming of the ramparts, apparently until 1812. Young Nikanor may find as he starts at his new school in Siberia next term that his new textbook has Peter winning the Seven Years War. And that will be that. |
| Robert le Diable | 25 Sep 2022 7:38 p.m. PST |
Didn't Nicanor lie dead in his harness? |
| von Schwartz ver 2 | 30 Sep 2022 5:59 p.m. PST |
Texaswalker – pity though, you ask a good many of today's high school grads and even college students they don't know who we fought in the Revolution or who we fought in WWII. |
| Michman | 13 Oct 2022 10:41 p.m. PST |
"student from Vorkuta" Actually, he is already in a Siberian h*ll-hole : above the Arctic Circle, 1200 km / 750 miles north of Yekaterinburg. The whole town was a Gulag with slave labor in the coal mines in Soviet times. The average daytime *high* temperature is above freezing only 4 months of the year. The population is now less than 50,000 and falling – down from about 125,000 (of which 75,000 prisoners). There is no regular road to the city, only one rail line and a track for special off-road vehicles used to service the Yamai gas pipeline. Average wages are well below USD 1,000/month. "Slipped out of a hospital window…"
The buildings are only 4-5 stories, the ground mud, piled garbage or snowdrifts. You would have to get him out over a parking lot in Summer and he might survive anyway. I would suppose a traditional tragic accident while cleaning his pistol ….
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| AICUSV | 20 Oct 2022 9:36 a.m. PST |
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