<DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> > . In fact, I would go so >far as to say Russian culture doesn't really possess a notion of kitsch. >People love Soviet pop music. Soviet culture, classical music and dance aside, was all kitsch. The high art stuff was underground. > > 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. Which did NOT happen in Soviet times. A (very typical) emigre acquaintance of mine, came over in '90, was astounded to see, as she put it, American workers voluntarily flying the flag. Of course she'd see that now in Russia  -- the Soviet flag, I mean. jks _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><hr SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!? Free <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/tag/*http://calendar.yahoo.com">online calendar</a> with sync to Outlook(TM).