{"id":214,"date":"2011-02-27T22:17:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T22:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/camruss.salus-marketing.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2018-06-29T08:33:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T08:33:17","slug":"27-02-2011-soviet-memories-and-memorabilia-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/27-02-2011-soviet-memories-and-memorabilia-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Soviet Memories and Memorabilia \u2013 Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>27th February 2011, 4pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Venue:<\/strong> Blythe Room, Clare Colony, Chesterton Lane, Cambridge<\/p>\n<p>This time, the evening was focused on people&#8217;s personal reminiscences and perceptions \u2013 what we now remember and how we now feel about the not-so-remote Soviet past, what our children make of it, what we would rather forget, and what we shall always cherish&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In a warm and friendly atmosphere, we shared our versatile experiences &#8211; those of us who had lived there and then, and those who had only heard the stories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>personal witnesses of the \u201cDoctors\u2019 Plot\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>foreign travels with the Bolshoy Theatre artistic cohort, at the times when they tried to save every penny;<\/li>\n<li>visiting the Soviet Union for the first time ever and getting arrested for trespassing;<\/li>\n<li>mastering colloquial Russian and confusing a pub with a brothel!<\/li>\n<li>everyday-life contrasts in the USSR \u2013 being christened and joining the Young Pioneers on the same day;<\/li>\n<li>receiving a parcel from Poland with masses of\u00a0 hidden chewing gum;<\/li>\n<li>meeting Bulat Okudjava,<\/li>\n<li>and Pyotr Kapitsa, and many more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PLUS authentic Russian vodka reception with \u201czakuski\u201d, and amazing, freshly baked rye bread, still warm, that had just been delivered by Andris Cerin from his own, newly open bakery in King\u2019s Lynn.<\/p>\n<p>The evening ended in beautiful, nostalgic singing to the guitar, by Antonina Meshko and Valentin Rusinov.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;a href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.camruss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Maslenitsa.jpg&#8221;&gt;&lt;img class=&#8221;alignleft size-full wp-image-3680&#8243; alt=&#8221;Maslenitsa&#8221; src=&#8221;http:\/\/www.camruss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Maslenitsa.jpg&#8221; width=&#8221;180&#8243; height=&#8221;131&#8243; \/&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>27th February 2011, 4pm Venue: Blythe Room, Clare Colony, Chesterton Lane, Cambridge This time, the evening was focused on people&#8217;s personal reminiscences and perceptions \u2013 what we now remember and how we now feel about the not-so-remote Soviet past, what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/27-02-2011-soviet-memories-and-memorabilia-part-two\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}