The building also has a banya, or Russian sauna, with a cold pool to jump into afterward. Early in our two-week quarantine I go out to the banya to find a naked Misha beating on a naked Gennady with birch branches. The first time I saw this
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“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
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“Palestinians no longer blamed Yasser Arafat or Hamas for their troubles. Now they blamed the Israelis for killing their children. But I still couldn't escape a fundamental question: Why were those children out there in the first place? Where were the parents? Why didn't their mothers and fathers keep them inside? Those children should have been sitting at their desks in school, not running in the streets throwing stones at armed soldiers.”
― Son of Hamas
― Son of Hamas
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