Sunday, February 9, 2014

Global II: The Olympics & Chapter 30...

If you've been watching the Olympics at all, here is a good reference point for you to use as we continue to study the USSR this week:


ORANGE is the Ukraine (where we studied about Stalin’s man-made famine & human rights violation)


YELLOW is Russia.  Note how close Sochi is to the Crimean Peninsula (that warm-water port I keep repeating in class)


 
Also, if you watched the Opening Ceremonies Friday night you should have caught the part about the Russian Revolution & the Five Year Plans (though they never actually said those titles or the names "Lenin" or "Stalin."  No surprise there...)  The part where they were all in red & black - the "nameless, faceless masses" I told you about - YOU as an individual didn't matter...that was the representation there.  The steel & such - that was the industrial progress under the Five Year Plans.  No surprise again that the focus was only on the positive.
 
Enjoy the Olympics...

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