WHERE HAVE ALL THE RUSSIANS gone? Once again, they've disappeared, and this, as always, is a source of concern. Every web site can track the number of visitors it attracts, and where those visitors are from.
A fair percentage of visitors to this website are russian, for whatrever reason, but their visits are much appreciated, and greatly missed when they stop. But why do they stop? Each time they do stop, they eventually return, gradually at first, then in full force. The russians alway leave, but they always come back.
There are several possible theories. It could be that russian readers are attracted to this site because the articles here regularly are critical of the united states, particularly culturally, economically, politically. Maybe russians enjoy that.
And maybe they stop visiting from time to time because they are afraid of getting caught looking at a site from the united states. President Puting is known for being somewhat of a, shall we say, "hard ass", who insits that the people stay in line.
This brings to mind the purges under stalin, and for that matter, the russian history of strong central governments exercising iron clad control over every aspect of public and private life.
The thought of upstanding russian citizens languishing in soem siberian gulag for having committed the crime of reading The Truthless Reconciler is truly unnerving.
Whatever the reason, it is hoped that our russian friends return, as they always do, and doubtless will again this time. Meanwhile they are greatly missed.
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