Word: leningraders
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...took me to the most popular art exhibit in Leningrad, a cavernous hall filled with Latvian painting which stressed agricultural and industrial productivity. One picture depicted a truck overflowing with some fruit, and the subject of a towering lithograph was a factory full of men hard at work...
...then visited Leningrad's only Jewish Orthodox synagogue. At first, we were stopped because we didn't have yarmulkes, but the Russian man ripped his handkerchief in two. We then placed the torn halves on our heads and went inside...
...synagogue itself, on the exterior, stunk of decay like many of the other buildings in Leningrad, but the opulence and beauty displayed inside the temple was surprising. Candles were everywhere. Ornately carved, well kept wooden benches lined the room. Painted white pillars towered throughout the room...
...evening, Leningrad becomes deserted and lifeless. After seven or eight o'clock on a Saturday evening, the activity and the animation, disappear. My first night there, I drifted about Leningrad naively, expecting to sit down in a bar or a restaurant to chart with some Russians. But that venture proved to be impossible. The only people who I came those fishing along the Neva river...
...soon became quite lonely, and, frankly, bored, so I returned to the Hotel Leningrad and listened to a Russian band play its stilted-- and rather humorous--versions of "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Around the Old Oak Tree" and "Fddlings...