Sesame Street and Soviet culture
Arts & Ideas
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Is There a Rebirth of National Languages?
Demi: I think there's more interest partly in the west to hear stories that were unheard from Central Asia and the Caucasus. In those countries as well especially say if you take Georgia, the very keen the artists are very keen to interact with the west because Europe especially was a forbidden fruit in the Soviet Union. Georgian authors are very visible in Berlin for example, Georgian author was a guest of Warner at the Frankfurt for the book fair. And it's actually you gave us an example earlier on from a writer called Denana Ekstimishvili from the pair field which when you think the the reference that you had in there was that it's really the mentality of the Soviet era that hangs
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