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mayamaiaThere was a massacre in Kiev at a place called Babi Yar in 1941, and continuing violence there until the end of Nazi occupation. The end of Nazi occupation involved an attempt to cut supplies of food to Kiev, considered a "surplus population", and divert them to the German army.
There's a place in London called Belgravia. Fancy that.
The Beatles were originally The Quarrymen and played something called skiffle.
Russians take their tea with jam instead of sugar.
There were strong similarities between the cattle ranching practices of Australia in the fifties and South Africa in the sixties.
The Soviet name for WWII was The Great Patriotic War.
Lots of little fragments of Russian, mostly swearwords or endearments. Also Russian naming conventions.
Arpeggios are chords with the notes played separately and in sequence. (My musical training was primarily vocal, remember, and details like this slipped through.)
The French don't allow other countries to control their own nuclear weapons if they're on French soil...? I'd like to read up on what this was referring to.
Considerably more about Greenwich Village than I ever knew before.
The investigations into so-called sexual deviants (meaning mostly homosexuals and women who had sex that didn't lead to marriage) by HUAC were called the Lavender Scare.
The KGB was centered in a building called the Lubyanka in Moscow.
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I'll add more if I think of them
There's a place in London called Belgravia. Fancy that.
The Beatles were originally The Quarrymen and played something called skiffle.
Russians take their tea with jam instead of sugar.
There were strong similarities between the cattle ranching practices of Australia in the fifties and South Africa in the sixties.
The Soviet name for WWII was The Great Patriotic War.
Lots of little fragments of Russian, mostly swearwords or endearments. Also Russian naming conventions.
Arpeggios are chords with the notes played separately and in sequence. (My musical training was primarily vocal, remember, and details like this slipped through.)
The French don't allow other countries to control their own nuclear weapons if they're on French soil...? I'd like to read up on what this was referring to.
Considerably more about Greenwich Village than I ever knew before.
The investigations into so-called sexual deviants (meaning mostly homosexuals and women who had sex that didn't lead to marriage) by HUAC were called the Lavender Scare.
The KGB was centered in a building called the Lubyanka in Moscow.
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I'll add more if I think of them
