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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Learning Russian in the 60s was rather rare. I was in linguistics and the word
as that if you learned Russian well you would be getting a recruitment call from a nice person from the CIA.


1,161 posted on 03/21/2019 5:53:07 AM PDT by buffaloguy (MSM: Wind up dolls of the DNC.)
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To: buffaloguy
...if you learned Russian well you would be getting a recruitment call from a nice person from the CIA.

I heard that as well in college in the late '80s.

1,169 posted on 03/21/2019 6:24:16 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: buffaloguy

My experience was that nany post Woodstock “radical hippies” took conversational Russian classes for several reasons, mostly “c’est chic”.


1,170 posted on 03/21/2019 6:25:12 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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