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Larisa Rimerman's avatar

Hi, Kameron! Thank you for liking and restacking my opus.

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Eugene Terekhin's avatar

Thank you, Larisa! Very interesting. My student years were in the 90s in Omsk, faculty of foreign languages. I lived at home but a lot of my schoolmates lived at the dorm. I remember those appalling conditions, and I am sure they were no better than in Leningrad in the 60s.

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Larisa Rimerman's avatar

Oh, it's very interesting. Have you read about my trying to build communism in Siberia? Later in my memoir, I write about my friend from your city. Of course, between us, there are several generations, but it must be interesting for you to read about such a long time ago.

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Eugene Terekhin's avatar

I don't remember reading it. I will. What is the name of the post?

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Larisa Rimerman's avatar

My Building of Communism in Siberia is a chapter of my Wrong Country. After graduating from school, I went to Siberia. Regarding Galia from Omsk, I am writing in the chapter about the university. It will be much later.

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Eugene Terekhin's avatar

Will try to find it.

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Portia's avatar

I lived in a student dorm, while studying Polish in Warsaw in the late 1980's, and then at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow in 1990, a rite of passage for most students of Russian from all over the world. I recognize many things from your great post, Larisa, and I have some fond memories. It was – as you say – the sense of independence and of doing something I loved.

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Larisa Rimerman's avatar

Oh, Portia, you have a real experience of Russia! I hope the foreign students were living in better conditions than ours. I remember a lot of loneliness of my first year of studying, but a feeling of happiness being in Peterburg.

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Cynthia Elder's avatar

Larisa, your experiences cut to the bone of a world I have never known. Thank you for sharing your memories.

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Larisa Rimerman's avatar

Thank you, Cynthia, for reading and commenting. Commenting helps you open up more when writing.

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Abhcán's avatar

A great read!

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Konstantin Asimonov's avatar

This is excellent, as always.

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Larisa Rimerman's avatar

Thank you, Kostia; I appreciate the opinions of my compatriots very highly. (I loved your comment about the babushka and the newspaper in the bathroom.)

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Chen Rafaeli's avatar

I hope you know by now eagerly I await your posts and am always вознаграждена за свое ожидание

(it's strange how some things are the same, namely tons of black coffee. and cigarettes)

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Larisa Rimerman's avatar

In some way, student life is the same, independent, but lonely in the huge collective of people, at once happy and unhappy - at all times and everywhere. Thank you so much for your "solidarity" with different times and different generations.

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