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From: alpet@ocf.berkeley.edu (Alex Petrushko)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Does Hollywood support black racism?
Date: 9 Oct 1992 19:11:37 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: monsoon.berkeley.edu

In article <NIKOLAY.92Oct9015945@husc10.harvard.edu> nikolay@husc10.harvard.edu (Philip Nikolayev) writes:
>On 9 Oct 92 01:54:01 GMT, 
>muh@physics.Berkeley.EDU (Yury M. Mukharsky) said:
>
>> In article <NIKOLAY.92Oct8204004@husc10.harvard.edu> 
>nikolay@husc10.harvard.edu (Philip Nikolayev) writes:
>
>>>nikolay@husc10.harvard.edu (Philip Nikolayev) writes:
>>>>>Go fuck yourself...
>>>
>>>Ha, another well-mannered racist pukehead stung by
>>>the crude,disgusting methods of the ubiquitos masonic 
>>>PC Thought Police. Insulting gentle racist hearts 
>>>is my specialty. The term 'brainwashing' can't apply
>>>to you by definition.
>>>
>> Slushajte, grazhdane, u nih tam v Harvarde gnezdo, chto li?
>> Pomnitsja extra-vezhlivyji Zhenja is Gorokhova tozhe teper'
>> iz Harvarda, i tozhe husc.harvard.edu.
>
>Da, u nas tut gnezdo osinoye, rassadnik chudovishnoi
>krovoprolitnoy politicheskoy korrektnosti (tak, kazhetsia,
>u vas v Berkli nazyvayut zdravyi smysl). Nashe vam s kistochkoi.
>
>> Poslushajte, porosenok philja, vy ne mogli by kak-nibud' s zhenej
>> zamknut'sja drug na druge, a? Poderites' tam mezhdu soboj, a kto ostanetsja
>> v zhivyh, uzh pishite.
>
>Uvy, mukhomor Yura, my s Zheney zamknulis' na tom, chto
>vas vsekh nuzho unichtozhit, tak chto pridetsia vam poterpet',
>ostroumets vy moi.
>
>>Yuri
>
>Philip Nikolayev at nikolay@husc.harvard.edu

A ty Berkli ne trozh, huy Harvardski. Sidi u sebya v svoei kamorke i
molchi, poka tebya terpyat.




	       Alex.   

	       BERKELEY RULES! HARVARD SUCKS!

	       Doloi bogatyx ubludkov!
From: DeVoid@cup.portal.com (David - Lyall)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Adam's Rib
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 15:51:36 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Oct09.185940.101074@watson.ibm.com>

>How good/bad "Adam's Rib"?
>
	Galina, I just saw "Adam's Rib" last month. To my American
tastes it was quite good. A 1990 Sov production. Seemed to have much
domestic commentary about the demoralization of late Sov society. I'm
sure that you're more qualified than I to judge that.
	It was personal, small scale. I enjoyed it.
	The title was disorienting as there was a Katherine Hepburn movie
of the same title.


\  / |  /\    |+ /\ |+  == /\ |    \\//
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==> J. David Lyall > DeVoid@cup.portal.com
From: dleschin@FEDS66.PRIME.COM ("", Dmitri Leschiner)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: >>>Is America that bad?...
Date: 9 Oct 92 22:19:17 GMT
Reply-To: "soc.culture.soviet via ListServ" <SCS-L@indycms.iupui.edu>

> Date:         Thu, 24 Sep 1992 08:22:52 GMT
> From: "(Vsevolod A Sukhanovsky)" <phvas@MARLIN.JCU.EDU.AU>
>
> A ya-to, greshnym delom, dumal chto eto tol'ko v Avstralii zadnitsa, a v
> Amerike vse lyudi schastlivy i den'gi na derev'yakh rastut... E-e-e-e,
> vykhodit, nado v koren' smotret' - v sebe prichinu-to iskat'!
>
> Vlad.
> Avstraliya-na-provode.
>

E-e-e-e, a ya-to byl uveren, chto `eto tol'ko v Amerike zadnitsa,
a v Avstralii, naprimer, vse lyudi schastlivy i vezde gde nado,
derev'ya rastut... Kuda by eshche posmotret' da poiskat'...
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: oleg@watson.ibm.com (Oleg Vishnepolsky)
Subject: Re: If you don't like it here.....
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 14:32:51 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.14 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: oleg@watson.ibm.com (Oleg Vishnepolsky)
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

In  <1992Oct7.232712.6312@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>  buchanan@rintintin.Colorado.EDU
(BUCHANAN TIMOTHY E) writes:
>In article <1992Oct06.133416.69363@watson.ibm.com> oleg@watson.ibm.com
(Oleg Vishnepolsky) writes:
>>In  <92100570@tbucks.com>  root@tbucks.com (Timothy E. Buchanan) writes:
>>>1- About one-quarter of PhD's are awarded to non-americans, who evidently
>>>come here to make use of our deficient system. This educational system is
>>>good enough to turn out people capable of inventing the microchip, the
>>>transistor, of setting the world standards for computer operating systems,
>>>and so on.
>>
>>We are the best! We are great! We are doing fine. We are right on track.
>>Doing fine. Super. OK! We are the best. We are great.
>>
>>It makes me sad that after hearing all the arguments, you could come up
>>with this instead of clenching your jaws and writing to your state legislature
>>or just visiting your local school.
>>
>>Oleg V
>
>I'm hardly parading with slogans and blinders on, as you imply. I don't deny
>there is much room for improvement in our educational system. I merely
>pointed out some of our accomplishments. Why does that upset you?

I am upset because you and millions of other taxpayers do not even see that
our investment in K12 education is not working. Either you did not listen to
the arguments, or unable to take your blinders off. In either case, I am
upset.
Microchip, Unix, transistors were all developed by people educated in the
early 60s and before that. The K12 system has been in decline ever since.
But even if those pioneers came out of the today's system, it would not
mean much - the deficiency is in mass-production of educated citizens.

>Actually, we have visited a couple of the local schools lately.
>My wife Natalia
>has given talks about Russia in several high schools.

Good. Did Natalia see what students of the high school were learning ?

>Like so much in life, you get out of school what you put into it, so I believe
>much of the responsibility for improving our children's education must depend
>on the parents.

I find it self-evident that it is responsibility both of the school system
and parents, and neither is doing a good job. At least, parents put up
the school taxes and tuitions not comparable with any other country
in the world.

>Now please don't accuse me of Republican family value
>sloganeering!

It's not Republican family value thing, it's rather "doing fine" blinders
that I think I observed in your posting.

Oleg V
From: muh@physics.Berkeley.EDU (Yury M. Mukharsky)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Berkeley-Harvard.
Date: 13 Oct 1992 17:12:20 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Oct11.085448.16270@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc9.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
>
>Calm down now, -- there is no need to get upset just because your English
>is not good enough to get you into Harvard, 

Thank you for advise. Daughter of my friend has got a talking toy-bear.
He speaks perfect English and is perfectly PC. After I cited your 
message to them, they realized, that he should get into Harvard and
in few years make money for the whole family. 

The only difficulty I foresee is that he can hardly claim being 
underrepresented minority. No, not in Harvard.

Yury
From: avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: death and feminism
Date: 14 Oct 1992 15:12:53 -0400
Organization: Berkeley Software Design

In article <1992Oct13.201804.16362@husc3.harvard.edu> verbit@coolidge.harvard.edu (Mikhail S. Verbitsky) writes:
>Of course, readers of Proskurin (Vadim, that is)
>will argue.

Who's that Proscurin guy anyway? Never heard (leave alone read (i suppose
he's kinda writer)). Seems he's particularly popular between x-Soviet
emigres (is he a Jewish writer? -- excuse for ignorance).

--vadim
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: igor@cs.columbia.edu (Igor Pankevich)
Subject: Re: Russian Rock
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 00:26:27 GMT

In article <1992Oct06.203954.109137@watson.ibm.com> galina@watson.ibm.com (Galina Kofman)_ writes:

>   In  <97767@bu.edu>  gdr@csa.bu.edu (dmitry goldenberg) writes:
>  >
>  >
>  >    What I'm getting at is that Yuri Naumov, the Apostle of Heavy Blues, the
>  > Russian underground guitar guru, is living now in New York.  He and his wife
>  >
>  >    So, you may be wondering what he is actually doing now?  Gigging in clubs in
>  > Greenwich Village

>  Which clubs?

He usually performs in Speakeasy (McDougal st (?)), or in Sun Mountain Cafe
on W. 3rd st. If anybody is interested, mail me and I will keep you posted 
on the dates and times.

--Igor
From: sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: email advice - Moscow
Date: 16 Oct 92 16:47:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: netnews.93423
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <84600015@glas.apc.org> margaret@glas.apc.org (Patricia Schwartz) writes:

>How I got my computer/modem/email in Moscow in a few days:
 
>2) HOWEVER then the problem arose of CABLES and CORDS!
 
>The RS232 cable did not come with the modem I bought and could not be
>had for money anywhere in Moscow. Computerland "in principle" (that

>........................... The memory
>will probably be ALL that you get, because these trivial connectors
>and cables are not simple to find.
 
 The difficulties in finding RS232 cable seem to be slightly exaggerated.
 A little advise for future use. Try black market at "Pioneer" store,
 which is on "Gorky" street (it is at the very end of the street),
 or another market near "Elektron" on Butyrsky Val. At least you
 would have found DB25 connectors itself if not the whole cable.
 I always wonder on people who feel an admiration in front of RS232:)

>I LOVE MOSCOW! In priciple, anything is possible.
 
 Yeah, you need just to now places.

>Hope I helped,
>margaret

 I hope too
 S.B.
From: rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (Jeff Bytof)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Privatization Vouchers - can Americans purchase them?
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 17:34:38 GMT
Organization: ucsd
NNTP-Posting-Host: lutherlab.ucsd.edu


>In article <rabjab.3.718398016@golem.ucsd.edu>, rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (Jeff Bytof) writes:
>> I heard about the new Russian Privatization Voucher program on the news
>> this morning.  Can Americans purchase these vouchers?

>I guess the answer is yes, since one of the main proclaimed tasks of the
>program is creation of market of capitals. Friend of mine e-mailed me today
>that the market price in SPb is 3,000 rubles (about $10) apiece. Even less
>then misterious face price of 10,000 rubles.
>Sergei Maurits

Ok, I'd like to purchase some.  Where do I get them and how can they
be used?  Are these essentially "shares of stock" in Russia?  Will 
the value change with economic conditions?  Can they be sold back at
the current price, or is their redeemable value fixed at the original
purchase price?

Jeff Bytof
rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu
From: sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: New Language -- immigrantish
Date: 13 Oct 92 21:35:21 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <4yiLsB1w165w@halcyon.com> novost@halcyon.com (mashina) writes:


>Molodozheny snimayut ugol!

 How about "newly weds are renting a slum" ?

>Also, those learning Russian can make simple mistakes too.  Consider
>the following.  A person is describing a girl.  U nee chernye
>volosy i u nee est' krasnye glaza.  What do you picture in your
>mind?

 Exactly what you've said - red eyes. I only can guess weither it's
 a "red eyes fever" or just a hang-over syndrome? 
 That's because in modern Russian it's quite rare to see "krasnye
 glaza" in the meaning of "krasivye glaza", but everybody understands
 that "krasna(ja) devitsa" as  a " beautiful girl" but not as  a
 "red bitch" :-)
>                            Jeff

S.B.
From: margaret@glas.apc.org (Patricia Schwartz)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Liberal Moscow daily attacked b
Date: 16 Oct 92 05:58:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #R:1992Oct13.174404.1@acad3.alaska.:-781745489:glas:84600018:000:707
Nf-From: glas.UUCP!margaret    Oct 15 23:58:00 1992


One more observation about this "fascist trend": I can tell by which
newspapers are hard to find in the Metro passages and which ones they
cannot even give away that the "silent majority" considers the
liberal newspapers to be precious, and the "fascist" newspapers to
be just so much trash.

This was not, I believe, the situation in Germany before or during Hitler.

Besides, life here is not too hard to bear. I cannot say from
my own life, with dollars it is easy. But I have had lots of
discussion with people who live on roubles and they say things have
in some sense gotten easier even though their money doesn't go
as far.

There are still smiles and life goes on. Pamyat' is not popular.

margaret
From: pv02@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (PETER VOROBIEFF)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Sokurov is still NOT an asshole!
Date: 12 Oct 92 15:04:45 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

On the next loop of Sokurov discussion...

>> Sure! I was incorrect and bring my apologies to Mr. Sokurov and to
>> all assholes too. There was no reasons to call an asshole Sokurov,
>> or Sokurov an asshole. You are right, as usual.
>
>Here's a dilemma. If Sokurov in not an asshole, why do his
>films have all the requisite qualities of any films made by an asshole?
>

Hmm... To be frank, I've never seen a film made by an asshole, but have
all reasons to suppose that some assholes might make much better movies
than Sokurov (it's not a statement, it's but a guess).

Cheers!
-- 
Thus spake Kalmoth the Vile, Slayer of the Seven Pigs of the North.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: bil@burka..aix.kingston.ibm.com (Igor Belchinskiy)
Subject: Re: Solaris - the "freeway sequence"
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 12:59:04 GMT
Organization: Be. I am.

In article <1992Oct9.161541.16205@husc3.harvard.edu> verbit@coolidge.harvard.edu (Mikhail S. Verbitsky) writes:
>In article <1992Oct08.143119.15053@watson.ibm.com> bil@burka..aix.kingston.ibm.com (Igor Belchinskiy) writes:
>>In article <1992Oct7.215602.16158@husc3.harvard.edu> verbit@brauer.harvard.edu (Mikhail S. Verbitsky) writes:
>>>In article <1992Oct7.032051.18465@netcom.com> oleg@netcom.com (Oleg Kiselev) writes:
>
>>>>I read the book both in Russian and in English and found the Russian
>>>>translation to be much richer in imagery and more... coherent.  
>
>>>Latin authors Borges and Marquez are translated as badly 
>>as Latin authors Vergilius and Petronius :-) - no.
>>>(comparing with Russian translation) as any
>>>contemporary Russian writer (e. g., Boris Vakhtin).
>
>>>I suspect this is a general treatment.
>
>>wrong - much better. "Polkovniku nikto ne pishet" (Nobody writes to colonel),
>>"Palaya listva" (Fallen leaves) and his first novel (something like 
>>Rassvetnyi chas - name escapes me) were one of the best spanish
>>translations I met in Russian.
>
>What's wrong with your comprehension, Igor? I wrote that
>English translations are worse that Russian, you wrote
>"wrong - much better" and then explain how good are 
>Russian translations. Huh?
>
>Misha.

Sorry. Shame on me. Friday, probably. I na staruhu byvaet proruha.

ObjAnecdote:
"Berezhenogo bog berezhet",- skazala staruha, odevaya prezervativ na
karandash.

	-igor
From: nikolay@husc10.harvard.edu (Philip Nikolayev)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Sokurov is NOT an asshole!
Date: 14 Oct 92 01:29:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc10.NIKOLAY.92Oct13182933
 om><NIKOLAY.92Oct12135213@husc10.harvard.edu><1bdofhINNbkh@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: The Kremlin Wall of Harvard
In-reply-to: muh@physics1's message of 13 Oct 92 05:57:05 GMT

muh@physics1 (Yury M. Mukharsky) writes:

> In article <NIKOLAY.92Oct12135213@husc10.harvard.edu>
> nikolay@husc10.harvard.edu (Philip Nikolayev) writes:
>>
>>Pretentious, full of false importance, self-aggrandizing,
>>imitative, vague - to name a few.

> Brass plate starts here <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Autoportrait,
> USENET, keyboard, monitor by Philip Nicolaev, 1992.  Brass plate
> ends <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

> Yury

Neymetsia, Mukhomorets? Nu-nu.
From: nikolay@husc10.harvard.edu (Philip Nikolayev)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Sokurov is NOT an asshole!
Date: 12 Oct 92 17:52:13 GMT
Organization: The Kremlin Wall of Harvard

bil@burka..aix.kingston.ibm.com (Igor Belchinskiy) writes:

> In article <NIKOLAY.92Oct11222437@husc10.harvard.edu>
> nikolay@husc10.harvard.edu (Philip Nikolayev) writes:
>>
>>Here's a dilemma. If Sokurov in not an asshole, why do his
>>films have all the requisite qualities of any films made by an asshole?

> Where is contradiction? His films have other qualities, too.

> btw, what's your definition of 'a--hole' and list of requisites for
> qualification?

Pretentious, full of false importance, self-aggrandizing,
imitative, vague - to name a few.
From: vadim@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: death and feminism
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:24:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: ohstpy.14230.2adc2d89

In article <1992Oct13.195312.16358@husc3.harvard.edu>, verbit@coolidge.harvard.edu (Mikhail S. Verbitsky) writes:
> .......
> In article <84600011@glas.apc.org> Patricia Schwartz <margaret@glas.apc.org> writes:
> 
>>I see as yet no parallels to the death-wish for sexual women in Russian
>>culture. Tolstoy wrote "Anna Karenina," which is certainly close
>>to this genre, but later denounced it and wrote "Resurrection,"
>>where the prostitute was a good woman who DID NOT REPENT her
>>sexuality and LIVED! How fantastically revolutionary this was
>>for an American girl to read - a woman who fucks and doesn't die.
>>And she tells the rich man who wants to marry her and "save" her from
>>shame and prison that she really couldn't care less what he wants.
>>She wants what SHE wants. His pity does not impress her.
> 
> Tolstoy, when he wrote "Resurection", viewed sex
> as evil force, without redeeming value.
   Yes,Tolstoy did.
> It is obvious from his other works, but it is clear

  No,not at all. Tolstoy in his works succeded to be very objective.

> also if you read Resurrection carefully.

  If you read it carefully you'll find that the prostitute was shown
as one of the best personages of the novel.
> ....
> Misha.
Vadim.
From: DeVoid@cup.portal.com (David - Lyall)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: If you don't like it here.....
Date: Tue,  6 Oct 92 22:53:54 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>3- I am never quite sure how to reply to snobbery of this sort. American
>movies are loved around the world. Doubtless some have more artistic merit
>than others.
>
>Many of the threads are titled "Is America that bad?" as if it is a given
>that America is 'bad' and now we'll decide how bad it is. Complain all you
>want; it's a free country. But millions of people have and will vote with
>their feet, including some I think in this group. Can someone name ten
>people who have emigrated from the US to the XSU, to find a better life?
>
>--
>Timothy.
>
>
>      ------- Time is our only resource, humor our only defense. -------
	Timothy, I know of one person from my town (Santa Cruz, Calif) who
has emigrated to Russia. He had a doo-wop radio show on my public radio
station for 7 years or so then disappeared. Last month the radio was conducting
a book drive for the NovoSibirsk schools and it turned out that
"The Hamster of Love" was conducting the drive. Hehe.
	Rounding up surplus books to send to NovoSibirsk now.
	He's the only person whom I know of personally tho.

==> J. David Lyall > DeVoid@cup.portal.com
From: muh@physics1 (Yury M. Mukharsky)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Does Hollywood support black racism?
Date: 10 Oct 1992 04:57:31 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics1.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Oct9.181322.16207@husc3.harvard.edu> verbit@germain.harvard.edu (Mikhail S. Verbitsky) writes:
>
 Po stene polziot kirpich,
 A za nim eshcho kirpich.
 Nu i pust' sebe polziot,
 Mozhet tam u nikh gnezdo.
>
Imenno,imenno.

Yury.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: frants@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Leonid Frants)
Subject: Re: Can white men jump?
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 02:00:20 GMT

In article <Bw2z0C.Euo.1@cs.cmu.edu> smir+@CS.CMU.EDU (Yury Smirnov) writes:
>In article <Bw1rt9.83z@cs.columbia.edu>, ratner@cs.columbia.edu (Michael Ratner) writes:
>|> In article <IGOR.92Oct12231136@krishna.cs.columbia.edu> igor@cs.columbia.edu (Igor Pankevich) writes:
>|> >In article <Bw120z.5Eu@apollo.hp.com> goykhman_a@apollo.hp.com (Alex Goykhman) writes:
>|> >
>|> 
>|> I don't think that blacks in general are more capable athletically
>|> than whites.
>|>
>   I also think so.

Actually there seems to exist a significant difference between the
muscles of blacks and whites. There was some research done a couple
years back (I saw a program on it a couple of years back) which showed
that blacks' fast-twitch muscles were somehow better on average than
whites' fast-twitch muscle. The opposite was true about the
slow-twitch muscles. The fast-twitch is apparently responsible for
fast bursts of physical activity such as sprints. The slow-twitch is
responcible for endurance. They did look at the muscle structure and
response directly - not at results of sport meets. I cannot remember
if they did the research on the americans only or it was more general.


Leonid.
From: Patricia Schwartz <margaret@glas.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Date: 11 Oct 92 13:18 MDT
Subject: Lenin's Embalmers Speak
Nf-ID: #N:glas:84600006:000:1915
Nf-From: glas.UUCP!margaret    Oct 11 13:18:00 1992


Article in "Moscow Times" on Lenin's embalmers, the Research Institute
on Biological Strucures, says that the process used to keep Ilyich
beautiful is no longer a state secret. They are joining the market
economy and now will share their secrets with those who can pay.
 
Workers at the Institute say that this science is dying (excuse pun)
because more research money is going into things like medicine
(for the living.)
 
The article says that Ilyich gets regular beauty treatments twice a week,
on Mondays and Fridays, by 15 scientists.
 
Every year and a half, he gets a complete 60-day makeover.
 
(When I go to the department store for a makeover, they usually
try to sell me lots of expensive cosmetics. Maybe this also is
happening to Lenin? Perhaps Estee Lauder is consulted, they now
have a store in GUM, near the Benetton store.)
 
They say that current techniques (plus a favorable political climate
or maybe the chance of increased tourist revenues) could allow
his body to remain in good viewable condition for another century
or two.
 
Meanwhile, at Dom Knigi on Novy Arbat, in the aisle named
"Books About the Life of V. I. Lenin" they are selling only
books on witchcraft. Saw it myself.
 
And by the way, did you all know that Agatha Christi is a Russian 
prose writer? Also Harold Robbins and Isaac Asimov.
Agatha Christi has also gained a great reputation in Dom Knigi
as a Russian poet, along with Dzheims Bond.
 
Best thing I've read on Lenin: "Soviet Civilization, A Cultural
History" by Sinyavsky, recently available in B. Daltons and
other purveyors of fine literature. Sinyavsky's prose is delicious,
even in translation.  (But - was it from Russian or French?
I know Sinyavsky has been teaching at the Sorbonne for many years.)
 
They say that Lenin's body is perfect, except for the lack of a brain
or internal organs.
 
Well, I'm sure he once had a brain. Too bad he never had a heart.

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