When Rome Conquered Other Nations, The Gods of the Vanguished Were Brought as Spoils of War into Rome. The US Did the Same with Russian Culture at the Very Moment When the Fate of the Cold War Was Already De Facto and In Principle Settled--by the Total US Cultural Victory That Was Decisive for the Whole Cold War

Thanks to Russian A. Borodin and, paradoxically, Hollywood, we do now know how beautifully the "snake" sang to Eve in Paradise as a would-be "son of the Gardener." This appropriation and assimilation of the supreme act of Russian culture by the US along with Nabokov's celebration of pedophilia (one of the sports embraced by the Putinist anti-elite in the post-Soviet and anti-Soviet Russia) that ends or ended in murder and possibly a capital punishment also prefigured the victory of the US in the Cold War which was chiefly won in culture and through culture.

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