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Actually not.

(А. Чехов. Палата N 6)

It was before Stalin.

"It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting."

Søren Kierkegaard

Actually my classmate was neither shy nor religious by herself. It was about her parents. I am not sure what exactly they have against pioneer organization. Probably they were just against the whole...

It's a joke, a rephrase of "Будет и на нашей улице праздник". English analogs are: "The darkest hour is before the dawn." "Fortune knocks once at least at every man's gate." "Every dog has its day."...

No idea. I've changed the city and lost all contacts. I think now she does not care as well as most of us. It was nothing more than a formality.

My classmate girl did not join Pioneers because her parents did not allow her to. They were baptists (Germans from Volga). She was not happy about that.

It was a kind of parade uniform of "Пионеры" in addition to school uniform. They We wore such kind of red tie (even at school) and red garrison cap at official ceremonies.

You can see ties at the...

It's a name of communist boy&girlscouts in USSR. All (almost) children at Soviet schools were "пионеры" at some interval of age. They called also "юные ленинцы". :D

Shaman will get out, then I will show myself and give up.



OK, let they add one year to my term of imprisonment. But at least I will survive.


You think it will change something?

Крепкий отморозок, его - ко мне.

здесь налицо - слитно.

батя - отец, informal, colloquial
на лицо - in fact "налицо" or "на лице" - wordplay
деятель - dude (one of the meanings)
прогибаться - to suck up
управа - управление - main office

He got...