07 February, 2014

Russians Hit Back at the West: Cool it with the Olympic Schadenfreude | New Republic

Russians Hit Back at the West: Cool it with the Olympic Schadenfreude | New Republic:

Now, Yakunin is a massively corrupt official whose company oversaw a
massively corrupt Olympic railway project, and I'd never thought I'd say
this, but I agree with him.


On
one hand, yes, things are objectively dysfunctional and not ready
despite the fantastic sums spent, and there is objective photographic
evidence of this. On the other, as I prepare for my Moscow-Sochi flight
tomorrow, a lot of this complaining does smack of some pretty fantastic
schadenfreude