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Hmmm... I don't see it as intentional/additional propaganda. Bradbury was extremely popular in the USSR, and I think that relocating the setting to some Soviet suburb would've seemed weird to his...

Thank you for your comments and your POV, Throbert McGee!
It definitely adds to the discussion.


"Добровольцы" are not necessarily military men, it could be any civilians who volunteered to...

I thought about it too. )) But is it the one? I remember feeling very peaceful when reading it, I would not call it creepy, unlike another book Hanna mentioned - about children dying of cancer in a...

I know for a fact that nothing would have happened, at least, not in the 70-80's. My cousin refused to join Komsomol (not because of any political believes, though). His teachers were mildly shocked,...

Oh please, enlighten me.

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I think most people in private life thought of themselves in terms of ethnicity (as Russians, Ukrainians, Georgians, etc.), but when it was about delegations, Olympic teams or international...

There were no Russian domination in sport, if we talk about sport in general. If you google "Soviet (Olympic) champions", you'll see people of different ethnicities. Sometimes certain sports were...

Hmm.. I think it's a bit of a (Western?) stereotype. The only way Russians 100% dominated the Soviet Union was an obligatory knowledge of Russian, since it was a state language. Generally Russians...

I'm sorry to hear that. I guess moods could be different in cities that had big military bases and thus were considered to be among possible targets...

I was growing approximately at the same time...

Your expressed your views on this forum multiple times, and I believe that most people aware now that your view of the USSR is very simplistic and negative (not to say biased).

I was born in the...