Opening Ceremony 1980 Summer Olympic Games In Moscow, At Central Lenin Stadium, With Brezhnev In The Bleachers: Traditional Dances Of The 15 Soviet Republics "Friendship Of The Peoples"

That Strange Nostalgia One Can Have For Times That Were By No Means Good, But Still, Less Confusing Than Today's World.

My weakness for folk dances…ethnic dances…ethnic costumes…I could study this for years and still not understand how “nationalism” was both elevated and destroyed, within the greater context of the USSR, and today, again, under the EU.

When exactly did the Olympic Games become so decadent?

The more I think about it, the more sense it makes that when the…