cyrnel

This reminds me of Long Way Round: A documentary on Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman riding motorcycles 20K miles from England back around to New York. Their adventures at various ex-Soviet borders were painful - the best was 12+hrs - and that with advance paperwork assisted by Russian state dept officials. Could have been ineptness on someone's part, could have been concern over allowing cameras through, who knows. I assume if these guys with months of prep and their connections can't make the process work smoothly then it's bound to be a pain in my common ass.

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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195