8 thoughts on “Give Her a Break, She Grew Up in the Soviet Union!

  1. So she and her husband have something in common other than adoring The Donald: a troubled relationship with the truth. Good to know.

  2. What's the over/under on nose jobs since that photo was taken? She might only have been a 9 1/2 back then.

    1. Hah! You're right. Growing up during the Cold War, we believed that the USSR, which was synonymous with "Russia," was one giant monolithic nation-state, encompassing even Red China until the Sino-Soviet split of '61 or whenever it was. We were allowed to believe that little Albania was an outlier, but certainly Yugoslavia was every bit as much under Kruschev's thumb as East Germany. As for Georgia, Byelorussia or the 'stans—I at least had no idea they existed as ethnic, linguistic or even food groups.

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