Hi, alexander!   
      
   09 ®ªâ 16 00:59, alexander koryagin -> Micheal M. Dronov:   
      
   Thanks a lot for a fast answer!   
      
    ak> Yes, it is a very famous city of Russia, at least for those who   
    ak> graduated from school before the perestroika. It is the town where   
    ak> Lenin was born, and as far as I know his memory is still honoured   
    ak> there. Probably it is not bad because the memory of controversial   
    ak> people must not be wiped out by force. New time must give birth to new   
    ak> heroes. New people, with new capitalist ideology, must do something   
    ak> that will make life of Russians happier and better. If we don't have   
    ak> such people now, but we have thieves instead -- let Lenin's monuments   
    ak> stay where they are now. ;-)   
      
   Everything in Ulyanovsk looks like the Lenin's death was about 15 years ago   
   and now the funerals have been continuing. Really, just look at this blog   
   article written by Artemy Lebedev: http://www.tema.ru/travel/ree-4/ (sorry for   
   an Internet link)   
      
   But now we do not have sad red and black curbs. In other parts Ulyanovsk is   
   not distinguished from other gray cities of Russia. Everything goes... Slow. :\   
      
    ak> IMHO, you were right. Just look -- at October 7 ALT.USAGE.ENGLISH had   
    ak> 274 messages! It is a crazy traffic, and I doubt that it is possible   
    ak> to read it constantly. Here you can have talks, ask your questions. It   
    ak> is a good, I would say, chamber echo. Although in the past it had   
    ak> better times and very hot discussions. :) So many things can be said   
    ak> just because you need language practice!   
      
   Oh yeah, messages at AUE look like a little hell. And the style of editing is   
   very unreadable. For me it was hard to join the conversation cause it is not   
   so possible to view the whole dialog during some technical limits. I mean, my   
   editor does not have a comfortable way to view the whole topic.   
      
    ak> The people here cannot correct all mistakes, but certainly I believe   
    ak> that most important mistakes will be corrected. And it makes this area   
    ak> helpful.   
      
   I will start some other topics here!   
      
   wbr, Micheal.   
      
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