Today was looking at some premium Russian wines at some wine emporium
Arthur Sarkissian Russian wines guide - pretty expensive too, hardcover, softcover and notebook to take wine-tasting notes
These are premium Russian wines from a variety of wine-growing regions and by different makes, all are supposedly highly rated.
Expensive too, no way your average americuck or europoo can afford any of them, I think.
Big Russian wines
Wine bar, price pour glass
(Awesome writing and rings true too - republished from FOWAG with permission)
Zelensky is a Puppet of Warmongering Western Elites, Danger to His
Own People and Humanity at Large, Must be Removed Soon Physically (and
Kill Boris Johnson Too While You are at It)
In February 2022 when the Ukraine conflict flared up in earnest long prepared for, provoked and stoked up by the West, Ukraine needed the modern-day equivalent of someone like Marshal Petain to steer the country through the troubled and turbulent times ahead but was unfortunately saddled with the lowlife clown and reported out-of-control dope fiend turned president Zelensky who is now being taken for a ride by warmongering British-, US- and EU elites as their carousel-riding galloping dupe, much at the expense of the long-suffering Ukrainians and to the detriment of humanity at large.
Philippe Pétain, more
commonly known as Marshal Pétain, was a general then marshal who
commanded the French Army both in World War I and much later in life -
during the so-called Battle of France in 1940 that was quickly lost in
the German Sieg im Westen (Victory in the West) campaign immortalized in
the eponymous propaganda documentary.
In the First World
War, Pétain had led the French Army to victory at the nine-month-long
Battle of Verdun, for which he was subsequently celebrated as “the Lion
of Verdun”. He was then appointed Commander-in-Chief and remained in
command for the rest of the war emerging as a French national hero.
During the interwar period he was head of the peacetime French Army and served twice as a government minister.
However,
in July 1940, after a short active-phase campaign, it became clear to
Marshal Petain that the war with Hitler’s Germany had been disastrously
lost and that the fighting had become meaningless.
Petain was set on armistice and subsequent surrender.
Ever
hopeful of finding their patsy to do their dirty work for them, the
British did everything they could to make the French engage in a costly
and destructive war on their own territory – the war that would
certainly have resulted in untold casualties and probably in the
destruction of most French cities and towns as well as of the
countryside and would have destroyed the economy of France.
The crafty British Imperial elites were real set on it too and spared no effort.
First,
Churchill himself flew in and, out of the blue, put forward his idea of
a “Breton redoubt” which his alcohol marinated brain must have
conceived of in a state of more than his usual inebriation brought about
by only knocking down two bottles of champagne and/or wine and half a
bottle of whiskey or brandy daily as he drank like a fish, all day,
every day, year in, year out.
Then, with heavy alcohol fumes
on his foul breath, no doubt, he ordered the French to engage in
“guerilla warfare” across the entire country, to which Petain calmly
replied that it would mean the destruction of the nation and he would
not have that.
Undeterred, Churchill then proceeded to demand
that the French make a fortress out of Paris and defend it in street
fighting to the last, going so far in his attempts at persuasion as to
drunkenly quote Clemenceau's : “I will fight in front of Paris, in
Paris, and behind Paris”.
No British dupe, Marshal Petain countered that making Paris into a ruin would not affect the outcome and put a stop to further discussions with Churchill pointing him towards the door.
In this way, though at a terminal cost to his
reputation, his statue and place in history and eventually himself,
Marshal Petain was able to deny the British the pleasure of seeing
France going up in flames and to ruin in the defense of their strategic
interests against the Germans.
No doubt, the British would
have done everything they could to extend the fighting in France as long
as possible bleeding out both the Germans and the French so that they
could triumph over both.
Had the British succeeded in their
crafty designs France would have been totally destroyed; as it happened
however France was able to re-appear at the end of the war relatively
intact, unscathed by the war and in one piece.
In fact, the
most that France sustained both in terms of damage to the economy and
the human cost of the war was due to the Western Allies’ destructive
“liberation” campaign of 1944-45 preceded by the near-disastrous
Normandy landings.
Also, France managed to kill two birds with
one stone - thanks to De Gaulle’s French government in exile, the
action of the resistance and certain goings-on in the French colonies
and – more importantly – to the Soviet Leader Stalin’s principled
position, France was ultimately able to cast herself as one of the
victors of the Second World War, no less, whilst also preserving her
economy and protecting her population due to Marshal Petain’s hard
choices and surrender earlier on.
Enter the former pub circuit comedian turned president Zelensky some 80 years later now in Ukraine.
And
who do we find as the principal cheerleaders of the war if not the very
same degenerate British elites gathering round like the filthy vultures
that they are to watch another bloody spectacle from the relative
safety of their decaying little islands, which will not be safe for much
longer though, the way things are going and especially considering how
little it will take Russia to destroy their entire habitat.
And
it is one huffing and puffing, farting and belching, cheddar and
chorizo stuffed, Boris Johnson who is now aping the fat drunkard
Churchill making frequent dashes to Kiev, talking down peace and
prevailing on the feeble-minded Zelensky early on to fight a war as
meaningless as it is destructive.
Ever ready to find somebody
to grab red-hot chestnuts from the fire for them, the morally repugnant
British ruling elites, aka the Establishment, have managed to get from
Zelensky what they had not been able to get from Petain – a bloody
spectacle to satisfy their insatiable blood lust as repugnant as it is
disturbing.
Had Ukraine had some great leader like Marshal
Petain as head of state, she would surely be peaceful now and
differences with Russia would have been resolved amicably -- all the
more so that Russia is nothing like the Nazi Germany of the 1940s.
Quite
the reverse in fact, it is the Zelensky-regime post-coup Ukraine that
is a terror state with hundreds of thousands of the disappeared,
imprisoned and executed by Gestapo-style security forces since 2014,
with most basic freedoms and human rights suppressed and denied in the
country and with the state dispensed terror reaching such epic
proportions and such a fever pitch that Ukrainian people prefer certain
death on the battlefield to life under the Zelensky regime.
Not that they have much choice in this matter, with males in the 25-60 age bracket being the most vulnerable group anywhere in the world denied even the freedom of movement, facing mobility restrictions and unable to leave the country (and this in Europe in the 21st century!) and even scared to venture out of their homes even to buy groceries, and subject to forceful, violent, arbitrary and instant call-up to serve in Zelensky's failing armed forces at any time of night and day whenever or wherever they happen to be caught by foraging enlistment office operatives or police and gangs on the pay of local warlords aligned with them, with no medical examinations or any such decadent niceties and with virtually no time for training or saying (last) goodbyes to the loved ones.
So where Marshal Petain managed to save the
country and the people of France even as he sacrificed himself in the
process, President Zelensky is sacrificing his country and his people on
the altar of Western greed and bloodlust and their long nursed
existential hatred of the Russians -- as the only civilization to have
never been conquered or even defeated by the West and the only one that
can wipe out the entire West avec plaisir, many times over, in a
snap of a finger -- and is daily succeeding in destroying Ukraine over
and over in the most horrible ways imaginable to the degenerate cheers
of the blood-thirsty British and other Western freaks and degenerates of
the corporate and political elites egging on their little evil dupe
hoping for more of the same and (vainly) counting on avoiding payback
for their great crimes against humanity in Ukraine.
By I.
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Mayor's residence
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Back to Arbat where live, at least part of the time
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