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Tomorrow I have visions of going to an antique tractor/machinery gathering. While I am a huge John Deere fan. However, I appreciate them all. Hell, my pickup has an Internstional engine in it.
There's actually tractors here named Belarus. They're from that country.
I can't recall where International engines are made.
The 80s were the days of the Soviet Union. I'm surprised our gov let them in our country.
88 or 89 when things were thawing out. In 1991 we had a deputy minister of agriculture from Russia visit the ranch. We explained how we each owned livestock and when sold the money was ours, the net at least. I was 13 at the time.
He was most impressed with the grocery stores and how well stocked they were.
88 or 89 when things were thawing out. In 1991 we had a deputy minister of agriculture from Russia visit the ranch. We explained how we each owned livestock and when sold the money was ours, the net at least. I was 13 at the time.
He was most impressed with the grocery stores and how well stocked they were.
If you haven't already, see if you can watch the movie Moscow on the Hudson. It's a great film with Robin Williams playing a USSR-era Russian who gets to see NY as a guest performer. You reminded me of the scene where he goes to a grocery store.
FWIW, in the Eastern Bloc countries post WWII, buying things was very similar to how they are depicted in the movie. Even in the more abundant areas, if you went into a department store you could only see the merchandise displayed behind a counter and on the wall behind the counter, and you had to ask a sales person if you could look at a particular garment or if they had the size you wanted. If you wanted to buy it, the sales person would write the price on a little clipped scrap of recycled paper which you had to go to a separate line to pay to the cashier who would give you a receipt, and then you went back in line to the sales person and presented the receipt to get your item. On a good day.
We are so spoiled here in the US. I think sometimes when an American travels abroad they suffer shock at how little other countries invest in pleasing their customers.
We are spoiled yes, but we as a culture work more hours and harder than just about every other nation in the planet, I think Japan is about the same or more.
In Europe everyone gets 6 weeks of vacation. LOL... I've been in the corporate working world for 26 years and have never ever heard of anyone getting that much vacation time.
We are spoiled yes, but we as a culture work more hours and harder than just about every other nation in the planet, I think Japan is about the same or more.
In Europe everyone gets 6 weeks of vacation. LOL... I've been in the corporate working world for 26 years and have never ever heard of anyone getting that much vacation time.
I think I earn six weeks a year now. I am all for working hard. Also for playing hard.
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