Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
– Joseph Stalin
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- John Bedell is an archaeologist, historian, and father of five living in Maryland. He has self-published two novels and is writing a third.
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"It's like a party every day. Some days I just don't know how to contain my joy. I get giddy, and the laughter bubbles out of me like a sparkling fountain of mirth and gaiety."
- Cutthroat Bill, in humorless deadpan, The Curse of Monkey Island
my parents visited russia in 1967 and related that the most common phrase they heard there was "eet ees eempozzeebool". a lot has changed since then, but that's also akin to saying the US has changed and we have wiped out discrimination.
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