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The first female CIA officer in Cold War Moscow (236)

Cold War Conversations

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Do You Know Any Russian Speakers?

i learned spanish and french and german, but i had no russian. But russian was taught at the time in some universities, just not mine. So i had to undergo forty four weeks of russian language. That's almost a year. Because i was studying from eight in the morning to five in the afternoon in a class room. And then we would go on week ends where we would only speak russians. Were these native russia speakers who were teaching you? Yes, it was interesting. They were native russian speakers from saint petersburg. It was very amusing. Some of their uage was somewhat antiquated, i think, caus they had em

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