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In reply to the discussion: "US worse than the USSR"? American Amnesia of the worst sort [View all]Hekate
(90,680 posts)Consider this observation that I shared with pnwmom, from my time at University of Hawai'i, would have been about 1970 or '71:
79. My senior seminar professor was a specialist in Japanese-Russian history
The seminar was on Japanese history of WW II, but he was deep into Russian/Soviet history himself, with emphasis on the Kuriles. Interesting man.
A Soviet "research vessel" docked at Honolulu Harbor for a little R&R for the crew, and wherever they went they were accompanied by their handlers. My prof invited interested crew members to visit the University, and after pointing out this building and that he strolled them into the Library with its system of open stacks (oohs and aahs) and then a little trek downstairs where what to their wondering eyes should appear but shelf after shelf of books in Russian entirely unavailable to Soviet citizens (oopsie! end of tour!).
Yeah, we do that all the time here.