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Originally Posted by yagosaga
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By the way, this is my favourite Russian song:
http://download.sovmusic.ru/m32/katyusha.mp3
I know that this must sound very strange in American ears. But I grew up near the border of the iron curtain, and we listened daily in our radio and television from the east to such music. (The Eastern transmitters were much more powerful than the Western transmitters.)
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Hi Eckhard,
Actually I like it very much also. I grew up during the cold war and iron curtain and loved to listen to the
Voice of Russia and the
Voice of America on shortwave. Even without that we've had enough exposure to Russian music in movies to learn to enjoy it. Music was usually presented as a positive aspect of Russian culture in contrast to its political system.
Guess I'm off topic.
John