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On Feb 22, 2010, at 5:25 PM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm kind of curious as to how much somebody outside the USSR who
> didn't know any of the languages spoken in the USSR (as far as I
> know) could actually know anything about the culture of the USSR. Nu
> Pogodi? Mark Bernes? Samtsvety? Vinni Pukh? Alla Pugacheva? Not even
> during Stalin himself could Soviet culture simply be reduced to
> Socialist Realism.
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com>
> My readings
> of him are limited (I did just learn how to read sometime in the
> mid-90s),
> but I did skim some of his critiques of the "culture" of Stalinist
> Russia as
> embodied by socialist realist art.
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