Jerry Monaco:
Compelled by an ever-so brief moment of optimism a peasant will move to New York City (or circa 70 BCE to Rome) and this change of geography either cures them of their optimistic delusions or causes them to open up a restaurant. In any case only a highly deluded peasant could think that opening a family restaurant is the best way to make a transtion from Abruzzi to New York.
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Every time I read about the Bolsheviks proposing an "alliance with the most advanced segments of the peasantry" I chuckle. What, is this the one guy in the village who knows how to read? ;) (I'm talking Russian peasants here, don't know anything about Italian ones.)
Ironically, if by "advanced segments of the peasantry" one means "best educated" or "most literate," that was the Cossacks, whom the Bolsheviks brutally repressed for a couple of years and were never too comfortable with.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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