--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote: [WS:] How so? Can't you simply ignore or delete my postings if you feel trampled? Perhaps other people may want to read my rants.
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I for one look forward to your rants.
BTW, I'm listening to a CD of old Young Pioneer songs, including my favorites, "Lenintsy idut" (The Leninists are Coming) and that great song about how Pioneers should always be ready ("Pioner, bud' gotov, vsegda bud' gotov!") to serve the country of the Soviets. I assume Poland had a comparable child recreation/political indoctrination system, leading into whatever the Polish version of Komsomol was. Did you guys also have the Oktyabryata (the pre-Pioneers little kids organizations, the "October babies" I would translate it as)?
Most of my friends here old enough to have been Pioneers have very fond memories of listening to boring lectures about Grandfather Lenin and then heading out to the playground. They were very proud of their uniforms. ;)
I really like these songs!
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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