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14 Aug 2019 Conversations with Tyler M. Gessen on the Ins and Outs of Russia
“I don’t know that I agree, but I think that — and this may answer your question — Russian friendships are much more emotional and intense than American friendships.”
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- 14 Aug 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…But there’s a discrete break in Russian friendships as I see it. Ha, that’s interesting. I don’t know that I agree, but I think that — and this may answer your question — Russian friendships are much more emotional and intense than American friendships. When I moved back to this country five and a half years ago, it was like this sense of whiplash because I had a lot of friends here, but I had been absent for 20 years. I would get together with my friends, and then two hours later, our get-together would be over. I’m like, “Well, what was the point of that? Was that just to let each other know that we still exist?” Because you don’t really get into deep conversation until about four hours in and a number of bottles of alcohol. If you’re going to — We’re missing the alcohol here tonight, right?…
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