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"Recently I came across this excellent 2018 lecture in Finnish, given by Martti
J. Kari, a former Colonel working in military intelligence, who "due to
numerous requests and feedback, published the lecture on the Russian strategic
culture with subtitles in now 18 languages (to be chosen in youtube settings)
given in the Studia Generalis -lecture series of the University of Jyväskylä in
2018".
After watching this, I can now understand why Russians think and behave so much
differently from us in the Western democracies, why there are 2 words for
truths and 3 for lies in Russian language, and based on this, how we should
translate from Russian language to any Western language any saying coming from
them, not only by literal translation but also if it is really true - “istina”
or maybe just tactically true - “pravda”, plain lie - “lozh” or rather a
strategic lie - “vranyo”. This brings some light about the reason behind
Ukrainian invasion and any other invasion in the past, as well as will give us
some ways of guessing what the future might bring and what are the hopes for
any "wind of change".
Since the lecture is in Finnish and being one hour long might be discouraging
to watch, and that it is really of uttermost importance, I was thinking that a
plain English translated lecture text would be easier to read and follow
quickly by anyone interested. Compared with youtube subtitles, this text also
contains full Slides translations, that obviously could not be part of youtube
subtitles. I am just an anonymous blogger that don't want to take any credit
for this material whatsoever, while I find it more important to share such
relevant information in these difficult times."
Via Joerg Fliege.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
