But they are not going out and voting for the Communist Party. The degree of irony partly depends on how far into downtown Moscow one is. They can get pretty ironic inside the Garden Ring, just like in Manhatten. Barkley Rosser ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Doss" <itschris13 at hotmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 12:05 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] RE: Soviet nomenklatura privileges
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> >It's not like when US kids dress up in 70s outfits. In fact, I would go
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> >far as to say Russian culture doesn't really possess a notion of kitsch.
> >People love Soviet pop music.
> >
> There's another difference: This is not people dressing up in Soviet-era
> clothes or listening to Soviet-era music. This is people emblazoning a
> hammer-and-sickle across their denim jacket.
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