Bob Draper writes:

>...Anyway whilst the west has been stuffing itself with burgers,
>rocking around the clock and strutting its funky stuff for most of the
>century eastern europe has been going to the ballet and concert hall...

...whether it liked to or not....

Denis Fodor                     Internet:[log in to unmask]

 [That's quite the romantic fantasy that the general populace of the
 Soviet Union were avid concert goers.  They had other, more pressing
 concerns.  Like eating.  -Dave]