the Russian gaze

[Alina Israeli]

Maryna Vinarska <vinarska at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

>.......................Thanks. If it really was like that, the only thing
>I can say is... well done!!! Pity that I was not there at that time.

When I was 9 years old a classmate came up to me after watching a war film
called "Devjatyj krug"  on TV ('9th circle' - we didn't even know what
exactly it meant) where there were scenes where Jews were hanged and said,
that he was sorry he wasn't there; he would have hanged me with pleasure
(ja by tebja s udovol'stviem povesil). The irony of it was (which I also
understood much later) that his father was a Soviet officer at that time,
and needless to say it was the nazi who were doing the hanging in the film.

Now, I am having a sense of deja vu.

__________________________
 Alina Israeli
 LFS, American University
 4400 Mass. Ave., NW
 Washington, DC 20016

 phone:    (202) 885-2387
 fax:      (202) 885-1076 

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