Scanned and provided to the general public by the lovely Marya Koshkina here and here. There were no official celebrations of Christmas in the USSR, of course. All of that energy was shifted to celebrating the New Year. This has to be one of my favourites: Because I was born in 1984, I was ableContinue reading “Vintage Soviet New Year cards”
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R.I.P. Vyacheslav Tikhonov
“Seventeen Moments of Spring,” where Tikhonov played his arguably most famous and iconic role, always gave me the warm fuzzies with its ending. It talked about how this Soviet spy, who doesn’t yet know that the war will be ending later in the year, in May, is going to Berlin to continue with his work.Continue reading “R.I.P. Vyacheslav Tikhonov”
Something that stopped me dead while reading Zoë Heller’s “The Believers”
‘Only ideas are perfect. People never are,’ Joel would tell her. ‘When you’ve lived a bit longer, you’ll be more forgiving.’ But Rosa had scorned these attempts to modify her wrath. For a person as deeply offended by injustice and inequity as she was – as committed to changing the world – a degree ofContinue reading “Something that stopped me dead while reading Zoë Heller’s “The Believers””
Happy Victory Day! – С Днем Победы!
My grandmother started crying on the phone: “I don’t want you to ever know what it’s like to hear the shelling and know that it’s coming for you.” War is banal and blind and savage and ultimately meaningless. But there is still something to smile about today, at least for me. If only because itsContinue reading “Happy Victory Day! – С Днем Победы!”
THAT’S IT!!!!
There’s nothing like good ol’ stereotypes of women from the former USSR to help me get over my writer’s block. Just like that. Check out my collection of links to fabulous pictures of Soviet actresses. Thanks to Neeka for the hat-tip.
Natalia A. 