2022-03-01T15:29:17Ztag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/thread/post/russian-tea-timetag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/772/30292022-03-01T15:29:17ZSursumCorda<p>When our daughter was in high school, a boy from Brooklyn fell in love with a girl from the Deep South. Their classmates were happy to translate for them.</p>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/772/30282022-03-01T14:30:24ZGrace Kone<p>I toured 10,000 miles of the Soviet Union during the Cold War and found, to my amazement, found that 90+% of the Russians I met welcomed our group with open arms, recalling our aid in WWII, even after nearly 30 years. If they were standoffish, one confided, it was because the only people they'd seen dressed as well as we were were Germans. When they learned we were &quot;Amerikanskii,&quot; they were delighted. (And yes, I studied Russian for 6 months before I went. I managed pretty well until we got to Siberia and was defeated by the accent. College educated, okay. Man-in-the-street, no.)</p>