May 4, 2010. Glorious days, early May... We moved in at just this time--in 1976. Miramar, "behold the sea..."
Aleksandr Galich, as a younger man. A playwright, and recognized figure in Soviet letters, who in the late 1950s found himself writing and performing his own songs... Something opened, memories included--often of a darker kind--and the need to speak. Matroskaya Tishina--Sailor's Dusk--banned for Galich's "distorted view of Jews in the Great Patriotic War..."
But why go there? His songs, passed by magnitizdat, from hand to hand...
Video of a performance, after his exile, filmed in Norway in 1971--he greets the audience a in tentative English. Aleksandr Ginzburg. The song-- Ya vernus'--I will return...
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Image of his burial place--the Russian cross, the Russian name...
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