| | | Russian President Vladimir Putin slammed during a speech on Thursday the far-left woke ideology that he said is causing societal ills throughout the Western world, saying that it is no different than what happened in Russia during the 1917 revolution. That’s from the article posted by Neeka, which you linked. It’s very interesting. Worth a read. Message 33543055
In Europe, with their abundance of super traumatic historic periods - wars, revolutions, mass killings, governments conducting wars against their populations, etc - history is never a thing of the distant past. It keeps reoccurring… or at least rhyming, as the old saying goes.
The Valdai club is a prominent discussion club in Russia. As per the quote above, even the president sometimes shows up to participate. The word doesn’t come from Lithuanian, at least not directly. It’s named after a town - and a big lake - in central Russia, roughly midway between Moscow and Petersburg. en.m.wikipedia.org
There is a word “Valdai” in Lithuanian, but it’s more commonly a verb. In this form, it literally means “own” - like in “you own”. In modern use, a term “Valdyba” means management (noun). A somewhat archaic female name “Valdone” means something like “the lady of the house”. The grand duchy of Lithuania, some centuries back, used to control large parts of today's European Russia. So, maybe they named the lake and the region. That’s not impossible… but who cares. |
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