Re: Caucasian sketches

[Gary Kern <gkern@alumni.Princeton.EDU>]

Umberto Rossi wrote:
> 
> > What you are saying, of course, is that the Soviet Union had some areas of
> > high technological development while most areas of society were primitive,
> > even pre-industrial.  Those few foreigners who had a chance to fight
> > alongside the Soviets were appalled by their living conditions. Pilots
> > living in shacks ran out on the field to jump into fighter planes.
> > Perhaps EJ saw something like that.  Do the CAUCASIAN SKETCHES state
> > anything specific?
> 
> Probebly in Adzerbaijan and Georgia things were just like that.  Those areas are
> almost primitive even now.  I wonder if someone saw that wonderful Russian film
> about two Russian soldiers kidnapped by Chechenian rebels.  I cannot remember
> its title, though...  Caucasus looked much like Afghanistan.
> 
> Umberto Rossi
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Yes, I think it was KAVKAZSKII PLENNIK, "The Caucasian Captive," after
the long poem by Pushkin. (The film might have used the plural,
Kavkazskie plenniki.)  But not only the Caucasus was primitive in the
USSR.

GK