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If growers keep their cattle closer to home and feed them on the one thing of which they have plenty -- pasture forage, will it make their operations more profitable?
Thus far, a viable forage-fed beef industry in the Southeastern states is only a concept, but after three strategy meetings and some researched-based "what if" scenarios, the concept could be headed to reality.
The first strategy session was in Grenada, Miss., in conjunction with groundbreaking ceremonies for Mississippi's new 150,000-square-foot cattle or cull-cow processing plant. The new plant could play a key role in the success of a forage-fed industry.
From that first meeting in June, producers, researchers, economists and industry representatives identified possible benefits and deterrents to establishing a forage-fed industry in the Southeast.
One of the most promising benefits is the Southeast is abundant in forages and in many cases can provide enough pasture or hay to feed cattle year round.
Among deterrents are the concerns that forage-fed beef isn't as tasty as grain-fed beef and that finishing cattle on forage could be more expensive than a grain-fed program.
The first concern put to rest at the third Forage-Fed Initiative meeting October 21 in Jackson, Miss., was the general concern over market supply and demand.
Richard Hall, owner of the new livestock processing plant at Oakland, Miss., said he's visited European countries where forage-fed beef is flourishing and sees great potential for a similar industry in the Southeastern United States. He said forage-fed beef in Europe are often put on pasture six months of the year and then fed silage in barns the other six months.
"All the cattle are uniform," said Hall. "And, in every region they grow these cattle they use a different grass, so each region's cattle has a different taste to it, but it's all good flavor. I think there is potential to do that here. We grow the right grasses, and we have the silage to feed the cattle."
Hall also assured the close to 50 participants of the October meeting, which was hosted by the Mississippi Cattlemen's Association and the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce, that the new processing plant could be set up to handle forage-fed beef products and to separate forage-fed and grain-fed beef for end products.
Ned Ellis, a long-time beef producer and leader in Alabama's beef industry, said he sees potential in developing a grass fed industry and he added "the time is right to do this today….. What is missing is entrepreneurship.
"As we think outside of the box, we need to be aware what we are talking about is starting a new production enterprise that at the beginning will involve only a small percentage of our producers," said Ellis. "But at the same time, we must think big enough to design a system that could become a major factor in the rebirth of the cattle industry in the Southeast."
David Morrison, assistant vice chancellor with the LSU Agricultural Center, headed up a working group to determine if the Southeastern states could supply forage-fed beef on a year-round basis.
Morrison and his group, which included beef researchers and specialists from seven Southeastern states, looked at a 400-mile radius of the new Mississippi plant to see if the area could supply enough finished beef on a year-round basis to commit to forage-fed specific products. According to numbers they crunched based on annual cow/calf crop estimates, 4 percent of the Southeastern supply would meet the demand.
"There is not really a shortage of cattle in any given month in the surrounding 400-mile radius," said Morrison. "Some months are lower than others, but none would create a shortage.
"The bottom line is we have plenty of feeder cattle available on a monthly basis. What we need to know is what months of the year can a 1,050-pound, harvest-ready animal be produced efficiently on forage?"
Morrison referred to some research conducted in Louisiana in the early 1980s, which took a closer look at the feasibility of finishing cattle on forages. In the Louisiana study, cool season annuals and winter forages were frequently used, but grain on grass was used the highest percent of the time in stocker and finishing phases.
"What we need to know now is what forage-based systems are available in each of the eight southeastern states," said Morrison. "Some things weren't available then that are now, such as alfalfa that may give us some opportunities now that we didn't have then.
"I think some coordination and sharing of information will be needed so we will know who is doing what during each season of the year, and more intensive management and application of the latest beef/forage technologies will be required for success."
Terry Kiser, head of the Animal and Dairy Sciences department at Mississippi State University (MSU), said taking advantage of the best months for producing forage would be a key to making this system work.
"I know of producers who've struggled over the years to get enough hay for their cattle, so they have purchased a baylage system," said Kiser. "These producers, during times of opportunities, are wrapping this baylage. We may need to take a hard look at baylage as a system that might get us through shortages."
Keith Lusby, head of the Animal Science department at the University of Arkansas, headed another working group to project cost of production estimates for forage-fed beef. The projections Lusby presented showed some extreme variance with possible costs being as low $53.53 per hundredweight (cwt) for a 500-pound calf started in November and finished at 1,005 pounds in June to $89.65 cwt for a 500-pound calf started in late March and finished at 980 pounds on December 1.
The group assumed a 2-pound-per-day gain and calculated that some backgrounding would be required in some months. Their estimated costs of production included factors such as pasture rent and operating interest, which might not be applicable to all producers. Other operating costs were fertilizer, seed, tillage, health maintenance and were based on a 2 percent death loss.
The forage program used for the cost of production example was Bermuda grass or a similar warm-season grass in summer months and annual small grains such as wheat, rye and ryegrass during winter and spring months.
"The best opportunities for profit appear to be for cattle finished in the second or third quarters off the high-quality winter small grain forages and best quality Bermuda pastures," he said, "but the cost of production budgets suggests year-round production of 1,000-pound cattle is feasible. It could be a challenge to some producers, but it is feasible. I think our best opportunities are for calves started in the fall months and finished from March to August.
Bob Rogers, professor of food science and technology with MSU's Animal and Dairy Sciences department, spoke at the June meeting on ways to alter or camouflage any variation in the tastes of forage-fed beef by marinating and providing consumers with ready-to-eat products.
At the October meeting, he demonstrated a computer program available to producers that will calculate the difference in potential animal value if further processing occurs as opposed to just selling wholesale cuts of fresh beef. Growers can request copies of the pricing matrix by email at email@example.com or call 662-325-2802.
"The purpose is getting to the point of giving producers and industry a system where you can establish the value of an animal. The price of meat is not determined by the producer or packer; it is decided by the consumer," said Rogers. "It is a supply and demand theory, Packers don't go out and buy cattle and then sell them. They sell the meat or products and then go buy the cattle.
"The profit potential from producing forage-fed beef to producers is receiving higher prices for their animals, if the processor (packer) can make more money from the processed products produced from acceptable animals," he said.
Several producers expressed interest in the concept but also asked for more research and a more clearly defined end product.
"This is a business we are trying to pass on to our children and stop from planting all our land in trees or leasing it to hunters," said Mississippi producer Henry Darden. "We can't afford, as producers, to take too many gambles on programs that aren't proven. Before I jump off into some direction, I am going to really have to look at it long and hard."
Cattle producer Ted Kendall IV from Bolton, Miss., said while it's exciting to see all the research and opportunities for something that could be in the Southeast, he has some concerns about consistency and time frames.
"The longer you stretch it out, the more difficult it will be for the producers. A 2-pound average over a long period of time will be difficult to pay the bills, and it will be difficult on some of these systems to maintain the 2-pound-gain average."
Eva Ann Dorris is a freelance journalist and marketing consultant from Pontotoc, Miss. She can be reached at 662-419-9176 or email email@example.com


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Oil and gas production in the United States and North America is going to skyrocket in the next 8 years due to strides in natural resource extraction, write Citi analysts in a report published yesterday. In fact, they went so far as to call North America "the new Middle East," at least in terms of oil production.
This—as well as a trend towards declining U.S. energy consumption—will completely transform both the domestic economy and the threats the U.S. will face in the future,
Indeed, Citi economists expect total liquids production to as much as double for the continent in the next decade, and predict that the U.S. could overtake both Russia and Saudi Arabia in oil production by 2020:
That's because there is incredible potential to extract and refine energy products on domestic soil:
This energy boom would have a transformative effect on the domestic economy. Here are just a few of the most astonishing consequences in a "good-case" scenario:
Citi analysts expect real GDP to increase by 2.0 to 3.3 percent—$370 to $624 billion—as a consequence of new production, a decline in energy consumption, and the economic activity generated along with this.
3.6 million new jobs could be created by 2020 as a consequence of increased energy production. Of those new jobs, some 600,000 would probably be devoted to oil and gas extraction while 1.1 million would be generated to meet demand in related industrial and manufacturing sectors. National unemployment could subsequently decline by up to 1.1 percent.
The current account deficit could shrink by 80 to 90 percent due to energy exports at an already low level of production. Citi analysts predict that the current account balance could move from -3.0 percent of GDP to -0.6 percent of GDP by 2020.
The value of the dollar could jump by 1.6 to 5.4 percent, primarily based on changes in the current account balance.
What's more, risks to the U.S.—in particular, geopolitical risks—would dramatically decrease. A domestic or continental energy boom would diminish the importance of conflict within and tensions involving the Middle East, as the U.S. would become significantly more energy independent.
Finally, Citi analysts note that this could lead to a considerable decline in oil prices.
While they qualify that this growth depends the realization of their "good-case" assumptions, Citi economists emphasize that the energy sector provides an almost inconceivable opportunity for economic growth:
It is difficult to square these rosy visions with the current reality of a nation still struggling to shake off the aftermath of the 2008 Great Recession, with millions still unemployed, economic recovery still uncertain, worries over ballooning fiscal debts, a hollowing out and loss of manufacturing competitiveness, tremendous angst and hand-wringing over volatile oil prices and dependence on oil imports, deep social divisions, and political paralysis. But if our analysis is accurate, then in only eight short years, this situation may be turned upside-down and economists, policymakers and the nation as a whole may confront new "problems" around managing a vast hydrocarbon windfall and preventing "Dutch Disease."
The coming generation of Americans and its leaders may be privileged to witness a remarkable resurgence of the American economy and industry, led by its energy sector, but spreading to the rest of the manufacturing sector and beyond, a potential minor Industrial Revolution.
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OTAVALO ECUADOR IMBABURA STAKE: (Jan. 19, 2014) President — Luis Alberto Tituaña Santillán, 40, owner of Winter House; succeeding Isauro Arellano Romero; wife, Rosa Matildo Izana Tituanõ. Counselors — Roberto De La Torre Montalvo, 35, merchant administrator; wife, Genovevo Romero Vasques. Nelson Javier Romero Vasques, 33, owner of Tejidos Tiffany; wife, Miriam Alexandra Ascanta Horales.
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Top 10 Childhood Fictional Females
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Something about being back home for the holidays always causes me to regress. After setting aside 48 hours to hibernate and stuffing myself with as much homemade food as possible, I plan to spend the rest of break watching my old movies and reading my old books in my bedroom, which is still has painted-purple walls and my life-sized cardboard cutout of John Mayer.
Here are a few childhood heroines I'll be revisiting.
5. Sailor Moon of "Sailor Moon S" (English adaptation)
The "Sailor Moon S" cartoon series, adapted from a Japanese manga series, never loses its appeal. Sailor Moon is a complex (but flawed) individual, again embodying traits of third-wave feminism. As the theme song states, she spends her adolescence "fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight." She is suddenly saddled with the responsibility of defending the universe as a teen, and during the day she deals with crushes, bullies, her best friends and body issues. But as her alter ego, Sailor Moon, she fights villains with confidence, poise and sass.
4. Princess Leia of the original "Star Wars" trilogy
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away . . . Princess Leia was kicking ass and taking names, all while rocking the unforgettable cinnamon-bun hairstyle.
3. Daria Morgendorffer of "Daria"
When "Daria" was finally added to Netflix, I was ecstatic. She was the portrait of sanity in an insane family living in an insane middle-class suburb. "Daria" will live forever as the misanthropic hero of my adolescence.
2. Enid and Rebecca of the graphic novel "Ghost World"
Enid and Rebecca share some of Daria's cynical qualities but do so on a much deeper, more complex level. The girls, both high-school graduates, wander around an unnamed American town, mocking their peers and criticizing pop culture.
As the novel progresses, a tension forms between the women as they begin to reach adulthood. Enid plans to move away to go to college, while Rebecca will stay in town to pursue a relationship with her and Enid's mutual friend Josh.
Another example of anti-heroes, Daniel Clowes captures a female friendship built on more than Disney-channel trivialities.
1. Buffy of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
No question, Buffy is a feminist's feminist. Buffy fights demons and triumphs over evil because of her femininity — not in spite of it.
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East Germany, 1980. Barbara Wolff is a talented young doctor who has applied for an exit visa from the GDR and, as punishment, has been transferred from her prestigious post in Berlin to a small pediatric hospital in the country.
Even though she is constantly aware of the very real shadowy presence of, and overwhelming numbers of Stasi officers chronicling her every move, every waking hour, she arrives at her new post having already planned a series of dangerous assignations with her lover, with whom she plans to escape to the West, to Poland.
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Sunday May 26, 2019; 07:12 pm EDT
Logistically challenging, Dignity Players' attention to detail shows.
Sordid Lives, a black comedy about white trash, rode a wave of financial and critical success for over a decade, from L.A.'s theater scene to film and TV credits. Playwright Del Shores did it by playing on stereotypes that feed social discord, from homophobia to fundamentalism, from the country club to the trailer park. His characters are as big as Texas, comic diversions of tragic proportions. Underneath the honky-tonk hijinks is a sweet story about a family's struggle for unity amid fragmenting differences.
Poor Latrelle Williamson (Darice Clewell) is a Christian soldier carrying the weight of her family's reputation on her shoulders. Like an armadillo, she guards her family's secrets in an armored embrace. She needs a story to explain her mother's untimely death under seamy circumstances, in a motel where she tripped over her boyfriend G.W. Nethercott's (Jim Reiter's) wooden legs. She needs to talk some sense into her tacky sister LaVonda (Karen Lambert), who insists on burying Momma in a mink stole, despite the summer heat. She needs her son Ty (Jason Vellon) by her side, but he's too busy with his acting career, embarrassing her by playing homosexuals.
She most definitely needs her brother, Earl 'Brother Boy' (Paul Berry), to stay away. Fortunately, there's not much chance Dr. Bolinger (Casey Augusterfer) will let him go home for the funeral as he's still not cured of his transvestitism, even after 20 years in the loony bin.
Aunt Sissy (Carol Cohen) is sweet and helpful as can be with casseroles and all, but she can't negotiate family quarrels and quit smoking at the same time.
Then there's that lot of beer-swilling road kill down at Wardell's (Timothy Sayles') saloon, those besotted new friends of her sainted mother who threaten to spoil the decorum of the occasion: Odell (Dan Kavanaugh), a mellow master at cat's cradle; Juanita (Kathryn Huston), a senior floozy in a mini-skirt; and gossip fodder Bitsy Mae (Ali Vellon), who introduces each scene with a country song whose title is unprintable in a family newspaper.
Wardell's tavern is a quiet place until G.W.'s wife Noleta (Laura Gayvert) and LaVonda shoot it up à la Thelma and Louise, and get themselves thrown in the hoosegow.
If you think queer jokes and drag queens and cripples are funny, if "Your Cheatin' Heart" speaks to you on a personal level, if big hair and rhinestones and boxer shorts make you giddy, then you'll love these clowns.
If you seek something deeper, that's here, too. Latrelle and Ty's dance of love and denial has pathos enough to power a season of Oprah.
As Ty, Vellon is outstanding in his bittersweet monologues about his reluctance to come out to his Bible-thumping mother. As Latrelle, Clewell's portrayal of personal transformation is as dramatic as a blossoming prickly pear cactus. Together, they find a peace and beauty that is infectious. On the other hand, Reiter as G.W. Nethercott and Berry as Brother Boy are first-rate physical comics.
As a team, the cast keeps the audience in stitches. Two staging choices, though confuse me: Gayvert's Noleta is way too attractive for G.W.'s insults, and Ali Vellon's songs, while entertaining from a poetic and vocal standpoint, would have been better acappella than with the sour guitar accompaniment.
Sordid Lives is different from the usual Dignity Players production on more levels than one. It is a logistically challenging show with more set changes, props and costumes than I've seen in an entire season. There's even a hair designer, and all that attention to detail shows.
With profanity and political incorrectness off the charts, I recommend this schizophrenic show for mature audiences that are not easily offended.
Director: Debbie Barber-Eaton. Production manager, assistant director and tech: Jason Vaughan. Costumer: Jean Beall. Set designer: Eric Lund. Stage manager: Andy McLendon.
Playing thru Oct. 15 at 8pm Th-Sa at Dignity Players, Unitarian Universalist Church, 333 Dubois Rd., Annapolis. $20/FSa; $15/Th: 410-266-8044 x127; www.dignityplayers.org.


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Kadykchan. The City of Broken Dreams
No, this isn't Chernobyl and there isn't any dangerous radioactive background or toxic pollution. You can even live in this town… but there is no reason for. This place has become absolutely useless after the collapse of the USSR, like many other Soviet industrial settlements.
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140 responses to "Kadykchan. The City of Broken Dreams"
This is Magadan region. I was born over there but in another settlement. Such crisis situation in area is reality. It's a pity… 🙁
What was the industry that these houses supported? What happened to it?
I love this site!
This settlement generally or Magadan region specifically? Near this settlement is coal production but area is gold production…
I agree that it is indeed a pity that such developments now stand abandoned. It is too bad that your road construction engineers don't knock down the old concrete buildings and use the rubble in the new construction of highways and roads. Such material is excellent to re-cycle. It could also be used as a fill-in in ravines and ditches to prevent further erosion. Sometimes it is used in building concrete piers or to use as a foundation when building roads and bridges over water. It is a shame to allow those abandoned buildings to stand as they are when so many other applications could be used to build good and practical things.
–Danny Greene
Why is this a pity? The Magadan region is arguably the most miserable place on earth – a vast wasteland built by and for slaves. Completely isolated from even Siberia and the Russian Far East, with winter lasting 10 months our of the year, and locals even referring to Russia/Siberia as "the mainland". Anyone notice the sign that said "Work schedule 10am-10pm, Break 3-4PM. NO Holidays"? After USSR collapse, anyone who could leave, left. The government is now trying to move and evacuate the few remaining residents of hellholes like this one.
Did you live there? 😉
10am-8pm, one hour break, 7 days a weak, it's a minimart, what's horrible in it? ))
BTW, from evenkian (local language) name of this place is translated as 'death valley'.
Locals were evacuated in few days after central heating system was blowed up by frost (as it is said here: http://fishki.net/comment.php?id=8093)
You are right it is in the Magadan region. The town is situated on the Kolyma highway,90 kilometres from the town of Susuman.It is about 700 kms from Magadan itself. The Kolyma highway is also known as the Road of Bones due to the ammount of people who died in it's construction. These towns are expensive to keep running and the government wants people to return to the "mainland". I travelled along the Belarus side of the Russian border this summer and there are numerous smaller villages just left to rot away. It's sad but makes for fascinating photos.
If I not mistaken this city situated somewhere in Magadan region, isn`t it? I think so because of old car numbers on Zaporojets was with "MA" letters…
Terrible and sad! Kind of a time capsule.
pic 5 says "Restaurant"
on pic 4 you may notice typical outdoor propaganda item – hammer&sickle and "Slava (Glory)… [to something]". Maybe "… trudu", i. e. "Glory to the labour", typical slogan. Reminds of "Arbeit macht frei"
Pic 8 says "50 years to October", i.e. 50 years since the Bolshevik October coup /revolution, 1917+50=1967.
Pic 16 – Old Soviet Union. Bizzare. The Evil Empire. Thanks God it is gone for good. Hopefully.
Pic 27. I know this piece of stereo equipment. It was very good for its time, unusually good for a Soviet product. Real Hi-Fi. Quite expensive. Few had it. Although it was kinda delayed development, launched into production in time when tape recorders already were taking over.
Pic 20. Very touching. Books. "Kosmonavtika segonya i zavtra" – "Astronautics today and tomorrow". The Bright Future which was always promised by the Party and which eventually never came true. Shuttered dreams.
Thanks for the translation dude. Appreciate it.
You are welcome.
You are welcome to my BBQ party !!!
Serious question…
Why do you consider the Soviet Empire evil? Was it Lenin or Stalin? Was it corruption?
It is a shame that such an infrastructure was built and it all failed. What a waste.
If your family or loved ones would be victims to the totalitarian regime for close to no reason, you would not be so concerned with the infrastructure.
Besides, unimaginably vast areas were simply ruined with overindustrialisation, with absolutely no concerns about the effects to the environment.
The USSR was evil because an old cowboy film actor called it evil twenty-odd years ago. Old cowboy film actors are famously good at such judgements.
What I want to know is: what about the evil of the American empire?
Empires are evil.
Good reply, Hugo.
ALL empires are evil, and as ten thousand years of history shows, ALL empires COLLAPSE.
Latest news from America, Scooter Libby tells press:
"We're an empire now!"
"In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend – but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.
"The aide (Libby) said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'"
It won't be long now…USA will follow Soviet Union into the abyss.
You're totally right. We never ever had anything against you in the 40's thru the 90's. We are all working class People in Russia or America, we all like to drink, have fun, and eat Beets or whatever to survive, or have a Dacha for fun. We're on your side 100%, let us all join together whether Chinese, mongolian, or arab and form a block, inpenetratable to lawyers and people opposed to our goals. Everyone has wonderful places to have fun in, and we should accentuate those demands. Especially you in the far north!I would be wearing a seal or polar bear parka if I was living in way below zero weather! Hope to hear from you soon comrade!
The old cowboy is dead and so is this town but the dead cowboys tragic legacy will have far more reprocussions than this town, even if the town was a mistake. The reagan administrations scripted comments conspired to ruin someone's future and the conspirators are giddy at the sight of these abondoned lives.
Soviet Union could have been good, but wasn't. Not the failure of communism, but the failure of humans.
A friend of mine once said "the difference between communism and capitalism is that communism is very optimistic– it assumes the best about humans: working together, sharing, etc. Capitalism assumes the worst about humanity, that people will always be selfish and trying to compete with each other, and the economic system is designed to have the competition create some kind of equilibrium.
A combination of capitalism and socialism seems to work reasonably well.
Yeah, like there are any truly capitalist societies anywhere. I hate to break it to you, but most of the successful nations (Sweden, US, etc) are a hybrid.
"So that socialism can take credit for successes, and blame capitalism for failures? No, thanks."
That comment sums up sweden allright…
The scandinavian model is a repressive nightmare and has no lack of similarities with communism.
This sums up quite nicely what it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jante_Law
"Jantelagen" refers to the Scandinavian mindset rather than our socialist/liberal system.
Being Scandinavian (Swedish I presume considering your name) you ought to know that
yeah australia pretty much has the same system as the developed nordic countries
Well put.
Communism / marxism is indeed overlooking the human psyche. People are motivated by competition in general. Take it away and you get a sorry lot. People get lazy and start cutting corners. Most people don't work for the fun of it, but to be able to buy something they desire. Money = power. Power = sex appeal. Etc..
USSR replaced it with a severe nationalism which still exists today. You are working for your country !! Us against them ! But no-one cares about that. It's too abstract. People want decent food on their tables to start with.
The corruption of the elite was topping it off. The old classes were replaced by a similar system, in fact.
A great movie I saw recently gives a nice view on what it was like to live in a society like that.
It's German and is set in the former DDR, 1984. Title: The lives of the others / Das Leben der Anderen. Highly recommended. On DVD everywhere.
And, one can say that the USSR Communist system was stillborn.
The only way to make it work more or less reasonable well was terror, as Stalin proved it. As soon as terror was basically gone, the decline started and ended up with the complete collapse in 1991.
Everyone was sick of the system, even Party members, so no one was really sorry when USSR died.
Now in Russia there on a raise a tendency to glorify USSR and Soviets, but that is something to do with the hurt nationalistic pride of the Russians, nothing else. Serious mistake on their side. I cannot imagine modern Germany to glorify the achievement of the Third Reich, even though Americans used their technology to land on the Moon.
It was evil in many ways.
The harshest was the inhumane, what sometimes is called "technocratic" attitude to people, i.e. treating humans as not humans at all but sooner pawns on a game board, as machines as inanimate objects.
People were told what to do, what to believe, what to THINK. Anyone (or , let's be precise, very many) who was not complying was PHISICALLY REMOVED. You could be exterminated not only for disagreeing with the regime, but just for SUSPICION that you could be disagreeing. Or you could be even a loyal party member, but you could exterminated for fitting into some fake conspiracy theory scheme – the regime's (mainly Stalin's) hunt for imaginary enemies.
Well, Bolsheviks did not have gas chambers, they were not that sophisticated. They just put bullet in back of your head or sent you to Arctic "labour" camps, where temperature dropped down to -40C or. And people delivered there sometimes were dressed just in a suit and ball shoes. After war, to Uranium mines were popular.
People believe that Nazis and Hitler were evil. Yes they were. Ans Bolsheviks and Stalin were evil no less. In absolute numbers they even KILLED MORE people than Nazis.
Here I basically talk about time from 1917 till Stalin's death.
This would ONE OF moral points.
There are many of other, more practical points.
I am from Latvia and our country right before WWII in 1940 was taken over by Stalin and Bolshevik rule was established. Thousands of people were either killed or caught and sent to the camps in USSR.
Latvian Republic, which was a new European country, liberal, flourishing and developing (it was 4th largest butter exporter in Europe and 6th in the World; Minox – superminiature photo camera, high-tech of the time, was produced in Riga; luxary VEF radio sets, which at the time were what wide HDTV sets are now were produced and got several GrandPrix in Paris in late 1930-ies; etc. ) was brutally DESTROYED. Practically EVERY of Latvian families have someone of their close relatives either killed or suffered "labour camp" time or been on forced exile somewhere in remote locations of Russia. Women, children, old people were caught and carried away by Soviets in thousands, and many of them died, many more had their lives ruined.
And there are many more serious reasons. Infrastructure etc. – those are minor issues, while still count.
So there is something to consider USSR to be Evil Empire for, indeed.
A curious detail.
Similarities between a prison camp and the USSR:
– both had barbed wire fences around them, sometimes multiple and electrified. not to keep people out, but to keep people in.
– in both places you needed to receive a written permission to leave and it was hard to get.
– in both places people in there get many things for free and they are distributed more or less equally.
Visit this link to see a ton of great real estaet gone to waste:
That's one evil site…
"According to the 2000 US census, 88% of Detroit's population is non-White. This percentage is even higher in the city center. Detroit qualifies as the most ruined city in the USA"
So now you're blaming the black population? Sounds a lot like Germany in the late 30's.
– Maybe because of the millions upon millions of dead?
It served it's purpose (the town I mean) now it's abandoned. S*** happens. It is probably too far from anywhere for the rubble to be usefully recycled, the land is not needed for something else, there is no-one to wander in and hurt themselves and sue, so really is it not the best, most economic option just to let it rot on its own pace? That way at least you get to photograph it… Would make an ace filming site. Anyone making a war film needing a set?
You are mistaken. The soviet people proved many times that their system was superior in many aspects of life. Education, health, insurance, space exploration, overall production. The end of the Soviet Union, as a result of the plan laid by the global imperialist forces and the cooperation they had from the Soviet traitors, has nothing to do with the superiority of the system. We talk about an economy that plans and works are for the people, not for a gang of monstrous corporations.
Nobody says that Soviet Union was mistake-free, after all it was a state led by humans, and it's in the nature of humans to make mistakes and learn from them.
The bright future will come, eventualy. It is the only way humanity will survive. Either a global socialist system, or we will end up living in caves.
You are indeed very optimistic. Or living on a cloud.
Yes the good things were that life was very organised in many ways: education, health care, it was there and it was good.
At the same time: they were able to send satellites into orbit and develop sophisticated arms, but a working infrastructure, a frying pan that won't stick, simple everyday things for the ordinary people, no. The ruling class [nomenklatura] decided what was done and when, not the people. So a term like peoples-republic is false: the people had no vote in this at all. The State was God and you were but an ant under its foot. It still is like that. Democracy is associated with chaos in todays Russia, because in Russia democracy IS chaos. No-one calls it democracy outside the russian borders.
BTW, Soviet Russia was as imperialistic as its 'enemies': the big difference was that they only took countries bordering on the old Mother Russia. All those Asian states i.e., Uzbekistan, Tuva, Kazakhstan, etc. were occupied by the Russians and milked dry.
I want to say thanks for everyones input. I am obviously a westerner. It is hard for me to wrap my head around how brutal Lenin and Stalin were and how oppressive the whole system they put in place was. I really want to understand the USSR from the perspective of people who lived within the republics. My comment about the waste of infrastructure was not intended to overshadow the fact that many people worked liked slaves and died so that it could exist. I can see where it would be easy for someone from the west to look at the propaganda on this site and not wish for a system that "appeared" to work as well as the USSR.
I am curious to know about how the leadership of the USSR looked at religious freedoms.
I have experienced last about 20 years of Soviet existence.
In that period, I would say, the attitude was rather tolerant. The regime had softened and was not the Hell it used to be in Stalin's period. Now it was just poor, oppressive and pathetic, though nobody expected it to fall.
Theoretically in USSR there was a freedom of religion.
The Church or, say, Churches – Catholic, Protestant, Russian orthodox, in European part of USSR, seemed to have concluded kind of a co-existence pact with the Party. I.e. the Party will not touch the Church, and vice versa.
Still, the church was generally ridiculed by official propaganda. The religion was viewed, as Lenin had put it once, only as an "opium for the people", historically used by "imperialists" to control masses.
If you were religious – you could not be Communist. If you were not Communist – you could not be (generally) any kind of manager. So, you had to choose between your God and you carrier. So sometimes people usually did what was normal in Soviet system – they thought one thing and did something completely other. A person could be (or pretend to be, which often was the case – this is why USSR collapsed so quickly and easily) belligerent Communist, some manager in local administration, forbidding others to attend church at weekends, while keeping Bible and icons in his wardrobe.
It was if not explicitly forbidden then at least "strongly not recommended" to follow any Easter or Christmas traditions. The New Year celebration on 1st of January had replaced Christmas and Easter was gone.
Sometimes Communist activists and/or various managers from workplaces and schools would go to the church to watch and make notes of those who attended. The children who were caught in church at Christmas were later ridiculed in school in front of their classes as being backward.
People still used to buy Christmas trees before 24th of December. Only they tried to stay unnoticed. In my family I was forbidden to tell anyone that we celebrate Christmas. When we lit the color lights on our Christmas tree we pulled the blinds so that no one from the street could see us doing it.
Many church buildings, which were taken away by Soviets till Stalin's death and used as warehouses, for example, were given back only after the fall of the USSR. So it was usual until then to see obvious church building with windows boarded over and crosses cut off, with bags of cement or potato stored inside.
Your response was another reminder of how Americans take their freedoms for granted. I would say that most Americans can't fathom the events that have taken place on this earth. High school world history classes are really watered down history and it is probably the only history lesson most Americans receive(besides biased news broadcasts). Put it this way, my world history class was taught by one of the football(American) coaches. We watched lame videos most of the time. No one took it seriously, even myself. My eyes were opened to the fact that Americans aren't the only people on earth the first time I left the country. I thank God for that experience. It changed my life. I all to often here people make ignorant comments like "We should just nuke Iraq and be done with it." These types of comments pain me. They haven't considered the fact there are families there like their own who are just trying to survive. I have met good people from all over the world and I have learned a lot from them. Thanks for taking the time to share your experiences.
I have a reading recommendation for you.
The books of Vasili Grossman, who was the number one war reporter in WWII on the Russian side. He was a true patriot and idealist, but lost his faith in communism after the war, when the cruelty of Stalin became more and more clear. Check Wikipedia for more on his background:
He wrote some remarkable books, the most well known being Life and Fate, which has been compared to Tolstoi's War and Peace. It is based partly on his own life and the lives of those he knew. The background is the totalitarian state Russia was at that time.
Forever Flowing is a good introduction to his work and his way of writing. It is a small volume, whereas Life and Fate is massive.
Both books were considered a threat to the totalitarian regime, and the dissident writer was effectively transformed into a nonperson. Forever Flowing, in particular, is unique in its quiet, unforced, and yet horrifying condemnation of the Soviet totalitarian state, a work in which Grossman, liberated from worries about censors, spoke honestly about Soviet history.
Thank you for the recommendation. I will search for these books.
I have read Life and Fate.
Too bad it cannot (or will not) be made into a film of some kind.
Well said Dixieland.
oh, yes. 🙂 people take many things for granted and get used to good life very quickly.
freedom, love, well-being – we believe it is natural for them to be there and don't even notice them until they are gone.
after all, Germany was one of the most advanced places in the world both technologically and culturally in the beginning of the 20th century. and suddenly they had Nazis. the freedom was gone. so, it really can happen. to everyone. to you, to me. somehow I am always amused by Russians being sure that it can not happen to THEM, just because they did beat Germans in WWII.
I have noticed, that people in general, in all parts of the world, are rather not interested in history. I guess they find it boring and irrelevant. they think – what is gone is gone for good and what sense in knowing about it then. but that it one very serious mistake. why? if we consider mankind and our world as a system, the history is a log of system behavior symptoms. and systems analysis tells us that certain processes have cyclic nature and/or certain things are normal system reaction to the initial set of parameters. especially if there is inheritance.
due to obvious reasons I am rather interested in the end of 1930-ies / beginning of 1940-ies period and it send shrills down my spine when digging in old newspapers in library I more and more often see parallels of the events and processes in the end of 1930-ies USSR and Third Reich and today's Russia and its neighbors.
the things Russian officials say have already been said before; the approaches they use in asserting influence have been used before only under different slogans; the events we watch on TV sometimes are so similar to the provocations carried out by both Soviets and Nazis before war to promote their plans. it all has happened before.
it is not only Americans who are not interested in history, so are almost everyone I have met from Western Europe. they don't know and they don't care. Russians, in contrary, often think that they do know and do care, but in fact what they stick to is a set of cliches, and not a history at all. a mythology. purely fictional, falsified things mixed with glorified partial truths. and the Holy Mission of Great Russia uber alles.
who controls present controls the past. who controls past, controls the future. something like that…
I believe that an average Russian does not really have a clear picture of the world. the image in their minds is rather twisted. there is still, again, and more and more US vs THEM. holy Mother Russia against the ugly Evil West. the clash of civilizations, that' s what it is.
I guess if we would live 200 or 300 years we might much better understand human beings, the motivation behind their actions, behind the movements in the masses. or may be not.
well said talking beaver. I came to USA from Czechoslovakia in 1981 and agree with you completely. Nobody here knows the oppression and the ways goverment can control your life.
Can't write English that well, so I'll leave it here.
Talkin Beaver, the question that is constantly in my mind is this one:
"Are humans smarter than yeast?"
Although I love Russia, capitalism is foundamentally superior. And as for our futur, I believe we will live just like in Star Trek.
Star Trek?
Why not? After all it is self fulfilling prophecy…
Really? Because you do realize that the Federation is essentially a friendly socialist system aided by the discovery of the replicator, right?
Doesn't matter, anyway. I have figured out that except from being an anticommunist you are also a troll. Come on, show us your real face… I am a communist, hoping that humanity some day will be united, free from exploitation, inequalities and minor things like the millions of dead infants from starvation. What are you?
Learn from mistakes, you say? Of course we learn from mistakes. Next time we will do it better. Before the winning of the 1917 revolution, there were failed attempts, know that? Have you heard of the 1905, or Paris Commune?
Keep swearing.
what an infantility.
"I am a communist, hoping that humanity some day will be united, free from … minor things like the millions of dead infants from starvation."
This just caught my eye… LMAO. Check this:
And search for pics in the web about holodomor… Do you think that there were no kids (or people at all) dying from starvation in the CCCP?
these pics are creepy, make my skin crawl. Im gonna have to use some in my next painting, atmosphere you cant buy
I wonder what's on those rolls of film?
It's the negatives of black and white films with the names and surnames who was photographed.
Lets settle this town and start our own government and industry.
Only if I can be the mayor and I have a statue of myself in the town square.
You can be the mayor if I can be the sherrif. But the statue has to be in front of the mayor's office.
We will need to manufacture something useful so that you and I can get rich. How about inflatable commodes? They would be the greatest thing since sliced bread. Anywhere you feel a bowel movement just inflate the commode and get comfortable.
LOL. Go for it.
Sliced bread is bourgeois decadence
There might be a problem with a government (see Chechnya). But industry and a "small" commune sounds great. But how to get there? Could anyone give a link to gmaps?
We can still have a government… we just have to pay someone off to allow it.
That would be a Russian ghost town…
why do people just leave, and leave so many things behind?
where did you find that info?
That's crazy!
Not a good thing considering you're in Siberia (northern continental climate) and that USSR-era distribution lines won't handle electric heaters. You could of course chop down trees and burn them in the furnace-don't know why the people there didn't think of it.
Metal gets brittle and you can break screwdriver like a pen. Diesel fuel becomes rubber-like jelly and you can cut it with scissors.
By the way, Magadan is one of the GULAG places, as much as I remember.
no industry – no jobs – workers leave – no consumers anymore, accomodations leave (restaurants for example) – more people leave – administration leave (maybe they were the first to leave …
still, amazing !
i love ghost towns, even if it may be scary … 😉
i wish i'd live in such a nice place
This is so sad !
Wow! A place where we can ship all the illegal aliens from the United States!
They will have this town cleaned up and say it is part of Mexico before you know it!
LOL…Your probably right! But the Russians would know Spanish because they would refuse to learn Russian.. Also you can pay for their education in their language, give them free medical services which you can not get, and give them your job at a cheaper price.. At least you can retire early…
I think places like this should be rented out to huge film companies.They would make fantastic,atmospheric backdrops,and the local communities could claw back some money to invest in settlements that still thrive.Failing that,a great big community of love with you guys sounds great….
LOL. Yes that would be.
Hmm.. maybe there is still life because the curtains in pic 37 are intact.
It sure would be helpful for the owner of the site to number the pictures.
If you place your cursor over a photo, it might display the number.
Hey there are about thousand of look like cities in the World,
most of them are located in USA and Canada
If someone have pictures of it please place the link here
alexoid, try this;
I'd move there and squat in those buildings, but it's in the middle of Siberia, would have to bring generators, windmills, and probably not good farming, etc.
Plus the groundwater is probably polluted if there was gold mining nearby.
according to http://shatoon.ru/gallery.php?action=full&id=3204
this city was evacuated just 2-3 years ago!
Unbelivable.. It looks like it has been deserted from the 1970´s.
Not really-people probably just abandoned their Soviet-style property-nothing new was built (obviously). Also don't forget that Russia 1992-1994 looked very similar to the USSR.
In 1996 there was a mining accident in which 6 people died. But the mining was already in decline since the end of the USSR (in 1986 it had over 10,000 and in 1989 less then 5,800 inhabitants), just like in almost all other places on the Kolyma Highway (also called "the road of bones" for the fate of the many Gulag prisoners which died building it). Of over 70 places in the future only 3 will remain. Already since the accident, when it was decided to close the mine, the place was emptying itself. But when later the basic life support systems fell out (the boiler which provided heat for the buildings and the water pipes) the place started getting empty real quick. In 2003 there lived just 470 people, but I guess these have almost all left now.
Anyway "Kadykchan" means "valley of death" on Evenk language. Perhaps then they meant a graveyard, but now it is a valley of dead buildings. But at least it did not suffer the fate of Khalmer-Yu (northeast of Vorkuta), of which the population was forcely removed by OMON troops and which is now a closed testsite for rockets and I heard that probably even the big bomb which was lately tested, was tested there.
Declining populations/migration is a problem in Russia now. I know someone who lives in a city (that was built for the mining industry), and every year thousands leave. Right now there's few people left, and the person is planning on moving out. It's going to be another abandoned city.
Things like this are unheard of in the US-people move in based on their occupation/housing budget/preference/etc. and the population is growing at steady rate in almost all cities/towns.
These photographs remind me of a visit to the North of England in the 1980's. Only these photographs are a little more picturesque.
Forgive me – my Russian is not good. The last picture: "Good Welcome into the world" what are the last 2 words?
"Welcome to the world of knowledge"
Possibly school or library.
Thank you!
So this is what our world will look like when we are gone.
This is what happens when you move to Capitalism from Communism. In communism you can keep a mining town going in the middle of nowhere because you don't know how much it costs to keep the place running. The food, fuel and infrastructure are shipped there and the gold and mined minerals come back and nobody knows how much any of it costs.
When capitalism comes it turns out that the place costs 10x the amount to run in food, fuel and wages, as the mining production is valued at. That, and nobody wants to live there anyway. So you might as well just pay everyone to leave because it will be cheaper than keeping the mines running.
more exactly, that location is 63° 5'13.30″N 147° 3'4.97″E
Those pics come from this site:
More pictures, from the past and current, in the photo-album:
nice to see that it's possible to have constructive dialogue in this site 🙂
Sorry, reminds me too much of "The Zone". This area would be good for military training, though, or even airsoft… looks like it'd be fun to "battle" in…
FEJK!!! everyone can se that! \o/
It's approximately the same distance from Chernobyl as it is from Denver, Colorado.
The USSR spanned from central Europe to Alaska.
That's almost half the Earth's width.
The area was greater than three times the size of the USA. (If you don't count Alaska.)
Mainland "Western Europe" looks like a little dot on the map in comparison.
Is it true that there are hundreds of buildings in Russia that were used in the production of consumables (shoes, clothes, military stuff, cars, etc) and the employees were badly treated at many of them ? (Going back to the Soviet Russia timeframe here.) The reason I ask is that I heard somewhere that there were western companies buying up some of those buildings, renovating them for their business yet people refused to work there becasue of the attrocities commited in past years.
If that is the case then I can understand why there are these deserted towns/cities/buildings that no one will return to as there are just too many ghosts that haunt them. . .
– Matt
CLEMENS FORRELL: a german soldier sent to forced labour camps escaped through Siberia. 3 years later crosses the border in Iran. I am trying to follow his steps. Any info about him will be greatly appreciate.
he is only the character in a series. see here:
real guy: Cornelius Rost (1922-1983)
I love the photos. I would like to see more photos of the inside of the buildings such empty halls and rooms.
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There is a book called "The long voyage back" which tells the story of such a journey, but I think it is a polish man who wrote it. He escaped from a labor camp and walked a long time all the way through Mongolia and back to Europe.
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What a pity, i feel bad for the structures……
Abandoned city of Kadykchan…
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It's still sad and fascinating to see abandoned cities and buildings. The idea that a city, however isolated, had been left so quickly that cars and posters and books and stereos and magazines were left behind makes you wonder.
And yes, we're aware of the history, even if it's just in general terms. We're just reacting to the ghosts of activities past.
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It is I that found it troublig so much ignorance – in advance, there was no sich thing as "slave labor" in the URSS, because slave labour is not paid. In the CCCP times, even gulag workers earned the same salaries as everybody else. in fact, the Gulag system was a huge drain to soviet economy, and that was a mayor reason for it being abandoned. Get a real bibliography.
Secondly, I don't think places like that ought to be abandoned. ¡I would live with a small community there if I could! (even considering stunningly harsh conditions)
Take a look at pictures of Detroit, Michigan usa sometime.
Looks like Detroit.
Israel buying up land under new pipelinew to be built
across northern Iraq, to deliver oil via Jordan into
This is one of the three reasons the US invaded Iraq.
The other was profits for the military industrial complex, which runs the US.
The third reason? A base for attacking Iran
There are many Russian's, Ukraine. Bella Russians and others from that region living in the that I work with and all of them say they will never go back. My Great Parents left Belarus in 1905 to come to the USA because it was bad then. I have a friend that worked at Chernobyl and lived in Kiev when it blew. They said Kiev was locked down for 30 days the only they found out what was going on was American radio, his wife said the USSR doesn't care about her children to hell with the USSR and they left and live a good free life here. Yes we have problems here but we also can get rid of the President every 4 years. Bush wasn't the best but Obama is worse he so he will be gone in 2012 because we don't want socialism here.
It is up to the people of your countries to make it better and not the Government. The USA is a very young country compared to yours but look what it's have done in its short life, look at how many American men and women have died to keep people free around the world. Americans are the most generous people in the world look today at Haiti. Remember American's are from every Country in the world including yours and have worked together to make it Great.
I like you have great pride in my Country so all the degrading on both sides don't do any one any good.
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Talking Beaver, what country are you from? And what country are you in now?
The Russian Govt instead of letting Kadychan go waste, can hand the town to the Tibetans and we will ensure that some sort of development does take place. I mean it wont be lying abandoned…..
But alas! I know that wont happen consedering the close relationship Russia has with China…..
I hope nobody minds I used some of these pics on my blog.
the problem of population in Russia is odserve and we can help them.
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text: Kerxo 1 Posted November 29, 2013 Hi all, It's been a while since I posted on here but thought i'd not only update on my situation but I also have a few questions and would love some other's perspectives or experiences. In October 2012, I was signed off form my job in recruitment for a few weeks with anxiety and depression and it was around this time that my acne got particularly bad, and has been bad ever since. I ended up handing in my notice and giving up the job altogether. I moved home for a bit and left my flat in Birmingham, then moved back just after Christmas planning to get a new job. I went for interviews and was offered a couple of jobs ..still in recruitment. I did one day of a new job and the anxiety overcame me so I left, saw my GP and she ended up signing me off work altogether and sending me to CBT. It was around this time that my rent was up in a couple of months so myself and my other half decided we were going to move to Worcester (where he works) and start new! So we did. We moved in May and I got offered another job in recruitment which again I couldn't start. I then thought about teaching and to cut a really long story short, I took a job as Learning Mentor in a secondary school. When I came to start, the anxiety about my skin was uncontrollable (see my previous post!). I was constantly overcome with anxiety and scratching away at my face in the mirror but no matter how hard it got I still stayed and battled through. My skin is still crazy bad. My acne is bright red, under the skin lumps, with no head and my picking ..whilst it's better ..when I have something to pick at, i'll pick at it. I end up with open red sores all over my face. My anxiety is pretty much under control and my skin picking it so much better than it was, thanks to hypnotherapy ..but it's the fact i'm still getting the acne that I can't stand. I have tried everything when it comes to treatments for my skin. I've tried 4 lots of antibiotics, numerous creams, red and blue light therapy, chemical skin peels, I even have brought a home blue-light machine which really hasn't done much! I have been to see my GP around 10 times in the last 3 months because of my skin and he FINALLY referred me to a dermatologist, saying that Roaccutane is going to be the next thing to try as nothing else seems to be working. I also decided to book a private derm appointment as well as wait for my NHS one as I wanted the drug SO much. I've done a hell of a lot of research on it and the side effects don't even remotely scare me as my want for clear skin seems to have become an innate need more than anything else! Does that even make sense?! I went to my private derm on Monday (25th November) and he has put me on 30mg of Roaccutane. The consultation fee itself was £100 and the prescription was £52 ..so I am still going to go to my NHS appointment on Monday, to see if they can give me a cheaper prescription and also to get their opinion. So far, I have been on this drug since Monday night at 30mg ..haven't noticed anything in terms of benefits yet, but I haven't seen or felt any side effects either, not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing?? I've read a lot that Roaccutane is a last resort and i'm terrified that even if I give this drug 6 months, it's still not going to work. I want to be able to have clear skin, be confident in people looking at my face, being close up when talking to me etc.. and not feel really paranoid that they are staring and examining me. I guess i'm asking if anyone has any success stories from this? Tips of hanging on in there and being patient or just wise words to make me feel less anxious about my skin! I know it's a tough task and a big thing to ask ..It's good just knowing there are other people too who understand what it is to have bad skin and the hell it brings! Thanks, Kerxo X Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson held a special briefing today on the recent elections in Nigeria. Assistant Secretary Carson said:
"Nigeria has just completed its most successful elections since its return to multiparty democracy in 1999. Despite some technical imperfections, those elections represent a substantial improvement over the flawed 2007 electoral process. This reverses a downward democratic trajectory and provides the country a solid foundation for strengthening its electoral procedures and democratic institutions in the years to come. The Nigerian people have shown to the world their resilience and will to have their voices heard. These elections were a real opportunity to choose their leaders.
"This week, Nigerian voters returned to the polls for the fourth time and final time to select their state assembly members and governors. On April 26th, all but two states held elections. Elections in Kaduna and Bauchi states occurred April 28th to give additional time for security to return to those two areas. International and domestic observers reported the April 26th elections to be generally well organized, albeit with a lower turnout in various locations compared with voter turnout earlier this month.
"Following the deplorable post-election violence of the previous week, we are heartened that many Nigerian voters went to the polls to vote in an environmentally -- environment largely free of violence. We remain concerned about allegations of fraud and ballot box snatching in various jurisdictions, and we strongly urge Nigerian authorities to investigate and take corrective actions on all of these allegations. We commend the Independent National Electoral Commission and especially its chairman, Professor Jega, and the security services for addressing challenges and improving their efforts with each progressive election.
"We are confident that INEC leaders will continue to take steps to further improve the electoral process to ensure that some political actors do not divert to their old -- revert to their old ways of subverting the will of the Nigerian electorate. We are partners in the international community, and will not hesitate to take appropriate action against individuals of any political party who seek to undermine the integrity of the electoral process, whether at the state, national, or local elections.
"Again, we congratulate the people of Nigeria on holding very successful elections."
You can read the full transcript of the special briefing here.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
I wonder if any political researcher has done a study on the average number of elections a nation must hold consistantly and peacefully, for the process to have become established as a traditional institution of political process that endures without question of an orderly transition of leadership?
Even America has had its moments of doubt about outcomes, but we work it out without bloodshed in the courts if neccessary.
It's good to see the nations and peoples of Africa standing for democracy as an institution and working to establish that process as a permanent part of the political landscape on the continent.
One can say democracy is a noisy, messy process but compare that to the noise and mess produced by a Mugabe, Bagbo, or Ghaddafi, and it looks rather tame and diciplined.
Personally, I've voted for so many losers of elections that I'm ok with the notion that even if I didn't vote for the guy, he's still my president.
I figure it's only fair to allow the fellow to earn my trust over time until the next election comes along.
I think stability lies in the fact that people can trust there will be a point in time where accountability will be rendered by their vote.
Congrats to the people of Nigeria!
Melissa in Maryland writes:
Isn't it a little early to be congratulating Nigeria on these elections? They are still voting, and the post-election violence left 100s dead and more injured.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
@ Melissa,
The Nigerian people have made a worthy effort that has produced a democratic result through an inclusive process despite all the hassles, and they are to be congratulated on that I think so that's why I did in a timely manner.
How the Dept of State wants to answer your question is up to them.
Best regards,
Melissa in Maryland writes:
@ Eric -- We've all voted for losers, haven't we? Just watch an hour of CSPAN and that becomes painfully clear.
I think it is both premature and presumptouus of the U.S. to congratulate Nigeria on these elections. But that's just my two cents.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
@ Melissa,
Yeah, my sides are hurting from doing just that.
Waiter...reality check please, I've had more than my fill...of THE DONALD.
But I see that both the reigning king jester of Saterday Night Live and the reigning president of pun n' jab, D.C. ( district of comedians ), neglected to fully analyze the "Art of Diplomacy" according to the Trumped up one....
Well, I'm certainly glad they left me some fat "alien" policy leftovers, I'd say their flambe' roasting effort wasn't crispy-crittered to my effectively "well done " clown status, but I'll endeavor to give good conundrum to shed some deep mystery on the subject in the next installment of "Dipnote, the wierd week in review"
Coming to a posting near you round about this next manic Monday.
P.S. If you arn't going to congratulate the people of Nigeria, would you bemoan their fate, and offer your pity instead?
It might be too soon for that either.
Have a nice weekend,
Smith in Nigeria writes:
The elections in Nigeria though marred with logistics problem in some areas and the post election violence should not be used to dis credit the whole process which shows a significant improvement from past elections..
Congrats to the electorates...


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