Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov was the luckiest man in all of Russia according to the omniscient narrator in A Gentleman in Moscow. Considering the whole Czars Romanov family was locked up and later murdered by the Bolshevik, Count Rostov was really having the best time living in the most elegant hotel in Europe during the worst time in Russia for being an aristocrat, even against his will.
South Park and China
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“I can’t do it anymore you guys. I can’t even think with the Chinese government censoring anything I write.”
“I can’t sell my soul like this, I wanna get away from that farm more than anything, it’s not worth living in a world where China controls my country’s art.”
“Anybody who would betray their ideal just to make money in China isn’t worth a lick of spit.” Excerpts from South Park – The Return of Fingerbang
Because of this episode of South Park, the program is banned in China.
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