A Tetris History of the USSR

Jesse Walker | 8.26.2010 2:17 PM

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SIV 15 years ago

This is somewhat better than Nick's link below.
1. SIV 15 years ago
  
  The "Electric Literature" one
2. SIV 15 years ago
  
  Disclaimer: Tetris is the only computer/video game I play
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

Eisenstein would weep.
kinnath 15 years ago

Brilliant!
Corduroy 15 years ago

When was the last time we had something quite so introspective as that in the good ol' USofA?
1. Jesse Walker 15 years ago
  
  A Frogger History of the Civil War?
  1. Hugh Akston 15 years ago
    
    No good. That features a bearded, top-hatted frogger going back and forth across the Mason-Dixon line single-handedly freeing slaves out of the goodness of his noble heart.
    
    The kill screen is an image of Sherman shrugging with the caption "Atlanta was like that when we got here."
    1. Heroic Mulatto 15 years ago
      
      Sherman should have finished the job.
      1. Pro Libertate 15 years ago
        
        Hey now!
    2. capitol l 15 years ago
      
      Sherman's continuing bad reputation is proof that the winners don't always write history.
      1. Pro Libertate 15 years ago
        
        That's 'cause most of our good writers wrote for the losing side.
2. CoyoteBlue 15 years ago
  
  When was the last time we had something quite so introspective as that in the good ol' USofA?
  
  1987
  1. Corduroy 15 years ago
    
    Winner
Death Panelist 15 years ago

This must break you.
Pro Libertate 15 years ago

In the master plan for humanity, the entire purpose for the Russian Revolution and decades of communist/totalitarian rule was to produce Tetris.
1. mattrue 15 years ago
  
  Not bad work.
  1. Pro Libertate 15 years ago
    
    The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the less-many.
2. sage 15 years ago
  
  They also produced the AK-47, which I am very thankful for.
  1. Episiarch 15 years ago
    
    Don't forget the SKS!
    1. sage 15 years ago
      
      I only had a chance to fire one of those one time. Not a bad weapon, but I was told it's not nearly as reliable.
      
      Not as easy to load either.
      
      No homo.
  2. Old Mexican 15 years ago
    
    And the Lada!
    
    No, wait . . .
  3. Old Mexican 15 years ago
    
    Re: sage,
    
    They also produced the AK-47, which I am very thankful for.
    
    Don't forget the Mosin Nagant, the poor man's sniper rifle.
    1. Anonymous 15 years ago
      
      The Mosin-Nagant was designed in Czarist Russia, actually.
      
      The more you know.
3. bohica 15 years ago
  
  Tetris? I thought the purpose was to produce Anna Kournikova.
  1. kinnath 15 years ago
    
    I miss Moscow in summer. Drop dead gorgeous women in see through tops.
Abdul 15 years ago

In Soviet Russia, klezmer music hates you.

Now that I think about it, that's pretty much the same all over.
Old Mexican 15 years ago

Mises.org beat you to it, Reason.

http://blog.mises.org/13646/this-is-almost-at-papolas-level/
1. Ragin Cajun 15 years ago
  
  Non-Kochtopus sites don't count!
  1. Ray 15 years ago
    
    Why is everyone here into Japanese tentacle porn?
Hugh Akston 15 years ago

Awesome.
Clich? Bandit 15 years ago

OUTSTANDING!
Lemon Jones 15 years ago

Wow, now that is some prety cool stuff dude. Amazing.

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Anonymous 15 years ago

Can I have a long one? Please. No homo.
80sfan 15 years ago

"Solaris" had more laughs than this
1. Anonymous 15 years ago
  
  The book, the movie, or the 2002 remake?
  1. 80sfan 15 years ago
    
    I have no idea wtf you are referring to, but have a look at this, I think it's more entertaining than anything out of Jesse's recent oeuvre
    
    http://youtu.be/_6YRPelqQFs
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Robert 15 years ago

Excellent.
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The kill screen is an image of Sherman shrugging with the caption "Atlanta was like that when we got here."
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I only had a chance to fire one of those one time. Not a bad weapon, but I was told it's not nearly as reliable.
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And the Lada!
Krem 15 years ago

Why does the Soviet worker speak with a German accent?
1. Jason 15 years ago
  
  Volga Germans.
  
  Stalin deported many of them to Kazakhstan during WWII and Germany after the war.
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