Russian Food Fights

In the second decade of the 20th Century hungry Bolsheviks wrestled control of Mother Russia away from Czarist rule and created The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), a communist state where every citizen followed the golden Socialist rule "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

In the last decade of the 20th Century hungry Communists wrestled control of The USSR away from fat-cat Soviet bureaucrats and created The Russian Federation, a new Mother Russia based on the free-enterprise system.

Twice during the 20th Century Russian citizens proved to the world that any national movement worth its salt is invariably spearheaded by hungry people with no pots to piss in.

Air Raid!

In the 1950s school children like me, who would later become labeled “Baby Boomers” ( as if we had been shot out of cannons at birth), hid under our desks at school during regular air raid drills that began with a brief warning from the teacher, followed by the blast from a chrome whistle.

Like this “safety precaution” would have actually helped us in the event of a nuclear attack. Like desks and puny arms clasped over our innocent heads would keep a 50–megaton atomic bomb from turning us into vapor in a split second. Like all grownups from Russia were devils from hell and our parents and grandparents were all darling angels straight out of Heaven. Later, in high school, we put two and two together and thought this was a pretty stressful and hyped-up time to be alive.

And they wondered why a lot of us wanted to be stoned out of our skulls when we grew up.