>>I thought you would see through the propaganda of both sides. Betterment is not in just buying cars.
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>I knew (from many of your posts) that you never liked USA. But I was hoping that you would be more objective, since unlike Mason, you lived under the USSR-type regime.

Not really, maybe when I was a kid. Since the sixties, it was very un-SSSR-typed, and we enjoyed the difference all the way.

I like most of the folks I met in these years in the US - they are great people. I met only a few Russians I didn't like. But I don't put much of a preference between USA and USSR - they were both too big to be good, both had imperial policies, and, frankly, I don't drink brown sugar waters. Coke, Pepsi - equally disliked. Rampant corporativism isn't much better than stalinism, IMO. It isn't even more colorful.