Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ballad is about a young soldier, Alyosha (Vladimir Ivashov), who becomes a hero almost by accident, and is given leave to visit his mother. On his way home on the chaotic Russian railroads he helps an amputee who is ashamed to return to his wife, delivers some soap to another soldier's unfaithful wife, and meets Shura (Shanna Prokhorenko), a girl who stows away in the beggage car he is riding in. Shura tells him that she already has a sweetheart, and after their adventures together confesses that this was a lie. They part, and Alyosha realizes too late that...
...they had the nets up"). His conclusion: "This isn't a requiem for a heavyweight. I'm coming back next week. I don't know what we're going to do, but tune in on the next chapter, because this might be the greatest soapless soap opera you've ever seen...
...always he was outraged, and his searing anger burns through to this day. He learned to draw -or so he liked to say-in the officers' club his widowed mother ran for an aristocratic Prussian regiment in Pomerania. There "decrepit old men" would outline lewd pictures with soap on the mirror over the bar, and the boy would copy them in secret. Hardly noticed by them, he closely observed his mother's arrogant, stiff-backed, high-collared customers, whom he delighted in imitating all the rest of his life. "It was an absolutely feudal club," he recalled later...
...second episode, which is interspersed with the third, the hero delivers a precious gift of soap to a soldier's wife, finds her living with another man, snatches back the soap and runs out. "Please," she cries after him, "please understand!" But he is too young...
Police mamma Helen mother please take me out. Come on open the soap duckets. The chimney sweeps. Talk to the sword. Shut up you got a big mouth! Please help me get up. Henry Max come over here. French Canadian bean soup. I want to pay. Let them leave me alone...