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Re:The Artful Propaganda of Soviet Children’s Literature by kirillkh on Sunday June 18, 2017 @08:30AM (#14580374)
> I can recall several excellent children books that were published in Russian that were my inspiration when I was young

This made me curious - am I understanding correctly that you read those books in Russian? How did you pick up enough Russian to reach that level?

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Re:The Artful Propaganda of Soviet Children’s Literature by jimmies on Monday June 19, 2017 @11:50AM (#14587846)
Ah, sorry for the confusion. I meant they were printed in Russia, in Vietnamese.

The USSR had a big pocket subsidy for smaller countries under their umbrella, so they printed books, gave aids, brought people to space, etc. to help smaller countries in their days.

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