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Cultural Difference

Posted by Peter on June 19, 2008
Posted in: Politics.

Cultural Difference
From a book called Apples are from Kazakhstan, a conversation in which the author reacts to a trendy Almaty restaurant’s nostalgic depiction of Lenin and Stalin:

“It’s inconceivable to think of a Nazi beer cellar in Berlin hung with swastikas, with the waiters dressed up as SS officers handing out postcards of Goebbels, and a bust of ‘Uncle Adolf’ in the corner.”
“They don’t have a place like that?” my friend asked

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