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a well-known party henchman, would have prevailed, in which case you could kiss it all goodbye. As a re-sult, neither the Perestroika nor the Glasnost would have been effectuated, nor would of course the USSR have collapsed, nor would the borders have opened, nor would the meaning of the term Soviet tourist have stopped being a joke, and during her entire life she would have had to spend her leave, even though, truth be told, for free, at the notorious spa towns of the Black Sea.
And the country which more than any other, ever since her school days when they were learning about its his-tory and its myths, she had such a yearning to some-time visit, only sparsely through the television, thanks to the popular show “клуб кинопутешествий”,32 would she ever see it. Therefore, no matter how much she might have had it in for the man because of whom, regardless of any good intentions he may have had, such a system that ensured the people a job, a roof over their heads, education, healthcare, blew up in smither-eens, with the result of millions of her fellow citizens becoming housemaids and call girls abroad, at least one time since she had arrived there she must surely have given a thought in gratitude. A similar thought in-
32 “Travellers’ Club”, (original form in Russian).
- The joke was about an Albanian tourist.
- Potato, po-tha-to
- How the hell do you explain now how Tamara let you in on that one?
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stead that a British woman lounging on her beach bed would hardly ever spare for the pioneer of the victory against the Germans in World War II, Churchill.
Who, by the way, had, in the spur of the moment, stat-ed something about the USSR that in the end suited the ex-Soviet women perfectly: “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.”
And how could they not be, since not only had they woken up one morning to find themselves citizens of a country different to the one they were in before they’d gone to bed the night before, but they had also been born and raised into regime A – which, by main-taining numerous elements of regime B it had violent-ly overthrown, in reality was not A anymore but X, never mind that in theory it was presented to them as Z – witnessing the impending collapse of which they deluded themselves that they would live
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