It is time to reveal what brought Bobko to PF.
In the end, it is the most banal factor... There is a film which was incredibly popular in the Soviet Union, and remains popular in all the CIS states. The film is called "Irony of Fate" - it is a comedy film, that is shown on television every year around New Years. Every Russian-speaking person has seen this movie at least 10-15 times in their life. It's about a man that gets drunk with his friends, and ends up taking a flight to St. Petersburg, instead of staying in Moscow, and then enters someone's apartment with his set of keys. Since all apartments in the USSR were of similar layout, he doesn't immediately realize his mistake, and hilarity ensues.
The female lead was played by a Polish actress - Barbara Brylska. A most beautiful woman! In my mind a Raquel Welch or Jane Fonda could not hold a candle to that woman. Watching her on the screen was the first time I probably felt an urge to go and learn Polish.
Also, as young kid in the 1990s, we were getting a lot of Polish action movies in Russia. The best ones had this guy named Boguslaw Linda in them. He was no Sylvester Stallone or Dolph Lundgren, but he was a Slav - so it was quite unusual, and interesting.
Finally, there was a children's tv series called "Muminy", or "The Mumins" which was really amazing.
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