St. Petersburg (then Leningrad), Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, 1966. My paternal Grandmother Tatjana's younger sister, the actress Elena, wrote, "A film about the life of the past century. I am at the theater, sitting in a box seat, watching a performance. The woman who is sitting next to me I cut off. I am wearing [your] jabot. This photograph was taken in the second half of December, not long before the blows."
Perhaps Elena refers to this when she mentions "the blows."
Thanks to my friend, D, for translating the inscription on this photo.
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Kind of doubt it would be that.
At the same time, Brezhnev became more ascendant than the reformist Kosygin after a series of economic reversals and this marked a period where the hardliners called the shots.
YMMV
Yeah, I can't believe she would have mentioned something political--or that citizens would have been aware of the gas blowouts then.
Maybe she was referring to a back ache.
Sounds more reasonable.
I'm sure anything going out would be scanned.
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