2008 Best of Kansas City

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In Defense of Trololololololololololo

With all of the YouTube incarnations of this song topping four million views, Eduard Khil finally got world-wide audience he always deserved.

The name of Eduard Khil is so closely intertwined with the Soviet pop-music of the second half of the 20th century that when I started compiling the list of his songs for [...]

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The Soviet Army and Navy Day

This year marks the twenty-year anniversary of the triumphant end of my military service. Shortly after my long-awaited discharge from the Engineer Corps in June of 1990, the American Secret Services sensed a weak spot in the pontoon troops where I had served and used it to break up the Soviet Union. Of course, it [...]