Each episode of this show is getting better now.
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“Listening to Episode 7 an early childhood memory came up to me. It was middle of winter in late 1970s, when our teacher asked - ok class, what kind of celebration are we expecting? - with huge wink towards freshly decorated fir-tree under the omnipresent portrait of Dedushka Lenin. The 5 or 6 years old me sprung up with joyous - Christmas day - yell. See, because my grandparents could not quit marking their annual time chunks as they used to before soviets took over. Our nice teacher got gray and stiff on her face and went on, in funny, fast voice - christmas? what's that christmas? there's no such thing as christmas.
She composed fast, put her smile back, asked - anybody else knows? - and nodded happily to other children telling it's the new year's day. I wasn't much upset even. Grownups contradicting each other, what else was new? And only decades later it came to me what peril I were bringing to my family, if there was right stack around of loose children lips and eager to denounce parents.
Such was the spirit of the soviet era. And that's what this show is about.
As an older friend and compatriot of Eastern Border's team, I'm really happy to see this show growing from a heap of anecdotal evidences into serious collection of oral history, describing the everyday life on this side of the iron curtain, and how that dreadful legacy keeps messing up our life 26 years later. I wholeheartedly recommend this podcast to my contemporal Cold War time westerners, and as well to younger people, to everyone curious about everyday life of the soviet era.”
narsk via ·
01/05/16
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