I cannot stand Gentle Giant

Me, too, my friend. Me, too. Me, too.  

There are topics and questions that require getting into some sort of atmosphere. I would like most of Pink Floyd's tunes to be shorter, but then the zest of their art would disappear, OK? 

World media are overfulfilled with recollections of how terrible the USSR was. And it's always about labour camps, Stalin, KGB. For the overwhelming majority of Soviet citizens Stalin was remembered as the leader of the country during World War 2... And nothing else. As the wartime leader he definitely looked greater than Hitler - at least, he was not hysterical. As the peace-time leader he was way too cruel and cynical. In any case, the Soviet people had other things in their lives to do and care about, than to think of what had happened until 1953. 

I find it important to tell because, after all, if one comprehends that the post-Stalin USSR was not a threat to the world, that the post-Stalin USSR was not really going to invade the Capitalist countries (there are no known documents proving the opposite) - it changes the whole Cold War narrative. It shows that mainly the Cold War was the instrument of profit-making for the military, secret services, weapon-producing companies. On both sides. 

Very few former Soviet people really want to live in the USSR, as it really was, nowadays, to have it back as such. But they have many tearjerking, touching recollections. There is a very powerful nostalgia about those times. There is even a modern Russian TV channel Nostalgia that rebroadcasts Soviet TV products. You may say that many ordinary Germans perhaps also felt nostalgic about Nazi Germany times and they perhaps also wanted to have Nazi Nostalgia TV channel... Yes, but the Soviet TV showed black-skin people among others, did not measure the parameters of people's skulls and did not talk of the supreme races and the inferior ones... They talked of supreme political systems and inferior ones - excuse me, it's not the same. Although there was casual antisemitism in the USSR and the authorities treated Jews with suspicion, virtually every Soviet crooner was a Jew, not to mention leading Soviet stage comedians, who all were Jews. I mean, thoroughly all. I can't remind of any popular Soviet stage comedian who was not a Jew. And all Soviet chess legends were also Jews. Each and every of them was a Jew. And that's why I do like Nostalgia TV channel and would not bear the existence of Nazi Nostalgia TV.