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id="_idTextSpan33597" >in C, but eventually grew up in D, full of symbols from A, like its national, albeit in different words, anthem, the hammer and sickle on the aeroplanes of the national airline, or Lenin’s mausoleum in a square that has al-ways been called Red.

Speaking of regimes – and what regimes they were!!! – namely the socialist one, in contrast to their grand-

- Ex-Soviet women and topless doesn’t add up, not one bit.

- That’s what you think. They evolved in the meantime.

- Didn’t Lioudmila tell you that Krasnaya in ancient Slavic meant beautiful, not red?

- Stop throwing a wrench into my works.

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mothers, they might not have experienced its harshest Stalinist version, where, if someone knocked on your door at five o’clock in the morning, you wouldn’t be wondering if it was the milkman33, because there was no milkman to be expected, but the soft one, as soft however as the sandpaper toilet paper that it frugally supplied its citizens, though clearly milder than the barbaric and predatory version of the capitalist one in the phase of capital accumulation. Hence having already demystified the second and idealised the first, they missed it all the more passionately the more ap-athetically they had watched its collapse and the less likely its restoration seemed. At the thought that they hadn’t even thrown the bathwater out with the baby but rather just the baby was enough to make them bang their heads against a brick wall.

In the meantime, she had drawn quite close, at any case close enough so that the years she had lived through in conditions of real socialism, as well as the centuries of a chequered history that her entire nation had traversed, were screaming out at him. The scars they had left on her body were indelible, there was no other explanation. Babis could but imagine her life,

33 Hint at the definition of democracy by Churchill: Democ-racy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.

Do you really want Rizospastis, the newspaper of CPG, to have it in for you for sewer-level anticommunism?

The one with the baby without the bathwa-ter, even though it’s of your own inspiration, take it out because it’ll definitely be of other’s as well.

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from what little he knew about the former USSR and betting on the fact that she must not have been that much different from Tamara, an

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