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For those of you feeling the Saxon inside of you, or if you want to explore more of this state’s culture right at its rear… then make your way to the festival “Day of Saxony” (Tag der Sachsen). It runs for more than one day actually: 4th to 6th September. This festival takes place in
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MoreToday, Diana wraps up her series by narrating what it has been like for her to finally meet and enter the "real life" of her penpal Genia, and also to see Russia for herself.
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Saturday in the park....definatley NOT the 4th of July...but it's just as exciting.
More"My sudden love affair with Aitmatov nearly made me flunk my German exam in tenth grade. 'Heroes of Our Everyday Socialist Life' was to be the topic of our written compositions. I wrote an essay about Aitmatov’s novel The Place of the Skull. [My German teacher] managed to save me from flunking. But Aitmatov saved
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"In history class, I single-handedly denigrated the Soviet Union. We were sitting with our textbooks open. I felt bored. There was a photo of Lenin on the page. With my ballpoint pen, I drew Lenin an earring and a Mohican haircut... Forty years earlier in Thuringia, a schoolgirl had adorned a portrait of Stalin with
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