Pynchon's Russia--US

[Thomas Eckhardt]

> From an emotional and personal perspective it 

>grates as I can’t think of a people or place I love more 
>than Russians and Russia (for reasons that would take me 
>so very long to put down.)
> 
> Blooch

I am fairly certain that this section of the poem is a satire of Cold War 
paranoia. The speaker is assuming/parodying the voice of people reacting to 
what comes out of their TV sets.