Posted on 10/05/2006 2:22:02 PM PDT by sergey1973
Fans remember Anna German, a Polish singer who became a star in the Soviet Union while keeping quiet about her tragic past.
For millions of Soviet citizens, she was a Polish star who sang about love in melodic, accented Russian at a time when others were singing odes to communist glory. But she was actually born in a remote part of Uzbekistan, and only later did her mother take her to Poland, fearing for her life amid Stalin's purges.
She was Anna German, a singer who moved fluidly between Russian, Polish and Italian, and won fame for romantic songs such as her masterpiece "Nadezhda," or "Hope."
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What does this have to do with the price of tea in China?
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