SEALs, Green Berets - these names of elite military units are on everyone's lips. At the same time, similar formations have existed in different countries for centuries.
If we compare the grocery store of an average provincial town in 1955 and in 1975, it would seem that we live in different countries with different cultures and types of economic relations...
I am drawn to this place during autumn storms, when the winds whistle and drive torn clouds over the expanse of the bay, in the gaps between which opens the bottomless blue of the sky.
The attitude toward the Soviet Union in the public debate is very reminiscent of the peat smoldering in the depths - time goes by, but the fire does not go out, at times bursting to the surface.
To begin with, I do not recommend reading this text to people who are wringing their hands in liberal denial of everything Soviet and imperial. Everyone has the right to express their views
