Month: April 2020
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It Was the End of the World as We Knew It (And Did We Feel Fine?)
Before You Start Freaking Out Big disclaimer: this post WILL be a tad bit off-topic. I had a hard time picking something I really resonated with among the possible topics in the Seventeen Moments, BUT this article about the “detente” period in the late 60s and 70s got the ball rolling for me. The Detente…
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State of Play: Soviet Olympic Dominance
Preface I’m going to start off by saying the majority of my information comes from Wikipedia (collective boooooo from professors) but I did work myself to collect some of the figures expressed in this post by compiling information from various stat tables. Other than that I also drew a lot of info from the Seventeen…
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Shock Value of Success: Rebel to the Grain
High Maintenance Taste DISCLAIMER: I’m using a lot of information from the Seventeen Moments in Soviet History site under the topic “Upheaval in the Opera”. I’ll include a hyperlink here for future reference! Now, where to begin? I guess we’ll start with Stalin’s taste in art. Let’s just say he’s a little more . .…
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