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I mean, there’s a corner of Russia that’s close to Alaska!! I mean, didn’t they notice that or something?! They sailed distances equal to going around the Earth twenty times years before ever discovering America!! I’m sure someone went to that little corner and went “Hey! There’s some kind of land over there! Maybe we should set sail to see what it is instead of commissioning an Italian explorer to go the long way around and mistaking some brown-skinned people for Indians!!” (Maybe not phrased like that exactly but still! I mean…damnit! This makes no sense to me!) Help? I’d really appreciate someone satisfying my curiosity.

Pretty sure it’s a soviet cartoon, and it has this bird character, on long legs, with a long, thin beak, a fluffy body and its eyes are practically sitting on the beak… I got a necklace from my grandma in russia with this bird and i SWEAR i’ve seen it or something VERY, VERY SIMILAR like it in a cartoon when i was younger, but we just can’t remember what the cartoon was! My memory puts the bird to be standing in water, if that serves as a clue, but i might be wrong…
All my previous searches or birds in russian cartoons lead to Kesha, NOT the bird i’m talking about, and my mom suggest that it is the bird from the alien market in the cartoon “The Secret of the Third Planet” (Тайна третьей планеты) that was selling this balloon-like creature, and although the bird IS similar, the beak is too thick and the eyes are part of the beak, while on the necklace they are small (beady?), round and sit right next to the body on the long beak.
Can somebody please help me? My whole family agrees that this bird was definitely in a cartoon (was shown in russia at some point), but none of us can recall this particular cartoon.
Potential leads are also appreciated! =)

I can personally say that I’ve not been following this media dominated race for office. I’m not affiliated with any party. I did see the recent interview with Palin. She talked about foreign policy, and fact that Alaska was in proximity to Russia.
All I can say is…the world is Laughing at us………..

It is now openly known that it is the US which imposed a one world currency by the force of arms on the international market strangling oil as a means of dictatorship
It is also known that the dollar is printed out of nothing — and 13 trillion is owed to the central bank in the US and others outside it
Russia and China have been suspending US currency trading so have others as the QE2 signals collapse investors pull out their money
Now the government is shutting down — suspending the pay of soldiers In the USSR this ended up in Russian soldiers so hungry they sold nuclear secrets and materials for food and heat
Are you seeing any similarities