Word: kino
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...special feelings of pride. "What I remember most about the war is the movies," she says. "They were dozens of World War II movies, but they were so blatantly propagandistic. All the Nazis were portrayed as idiots, and the Soviets as great heroes. We had a phrase, kino nemetskoe, which is slang for a show so ridiculous you cannot believe it." Of the time after the war she says, "It was stable, we did not fear anything, there was not this tremendous sense of insecurity as now. The main thing is we do not know what will happen next here...