The one hour and 24 minute version was refusing to work today so I’ll start with part one and go on up.
By the way, I have BACKSTAGE AT THE KIROV which was produced by Armand Hammer. Of course the beauty of Russian ballet precedes communism but in the film the ballerinas are seen on stage, backstage, practicing in the studio, and on the wide streets of Leningrad but not in their apartments and not shopping. That would have been difficult to show without their situation looking quite poor compared to the West.
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That reminds of an old soviet union joke: An American was showing his friend from the USSR his home. Going through the living room, dinning room, kitchen, bathrooms and bedrooms.
His soviet friend said that in Russia they have the very same thing – only it’s all one room.