Sesame Street and Soviet culture
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Russian American Russia in the West
Natasha: I think the West sometimes sees itself as being really instrumental in bringing about Paris Stryker and introducing all of these things. In many ways, that's the wrong way of looking at it because I think Gorbachev's government was just doing something pragmatic again to try and keep this project going. Victoria: You see this kind of emerging sort of national consciousnesses in the former Soviet republics which are linked to ecological issues,. eco nationalism emerging this desire for change is born out of Brezhnev's era of long stagnation.
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