STALINKA

[Deborah Hoffman]

I don't know what this says about me, but the first
thing I thought of was Kalinka, which I think might
horrify Uncle Joe more than some of the other
reactions.  I doubt the site's designers were
attempting to engage in Stalinist apologetics (two
words I've never written together before), but rather
to use irony and humor to highlight and perhaps
introduce a little levity into a serious research
topic.  Other attempts to do this with the Nazi period
- things like Life is Beautiful not to mention The
Producers - have been met with similar reactions so
perhaps it should not have been unexpected.  I,
however, enjoy the site as is and think there are
plenty of other opportunities to respond with
appropriate horror to the Stalinist period.

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Date:    Sun, 25 Sep 2005 13:42:04 -0400
From:    Galina Rylkova <grylkova at UFL.EDU>
Subject: Re: STALINKA

Unlike Nabokov, I wouldn't assume to "read the team's
mind correctly," 
=20=

but my first association was not with the cult of
Stalin but with one 
=20=

of the biggest repositories of books in Russia,
usually referred to as 
=20=

"Leninka."
Sincerely,
Galina Rylkova

Deborah Hoffman
Finance Chair, Graduate Student Senate
Modern and Classical Language Studies
Kent State University

http://users.ameritech.net/lino59/index.htm

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