[ SECRET POST #2616 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2616 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Things you thought were common knowledge, but aren't?

[(Anonymous)]

That Czechoslovakia no longer exists... Also not all of the states of the former USSR are Russia/Russian.

... Actually pretty much anything factual about Eastern Europe at all.

Re: Things you thought were common knowledge, but aren't?

[(Anonymous)]

How about the fact that there used to be two Germanys for a while? When I was in grad school ten years ago, I met a freshman who did not know that.

Re: Things you thought were common knowledge, but aren't?

[(Anonymous)]

Wow. That's... pretty embarrassing.

I studied Slavic linguistics, with a particular/side emphasis on Soviet history, in grad school, and the things that people would say to me were somewhat astonishing. I'm always torn between my immediate reaction of "....... really?" and my more thoughtful reaction that maybe I have a skewed sense of "common knowledge" because of my field of study.

But geez, had that freshman never heard of the Berlin wall?

Re: Things you thought were common knowledge, but aren't?

[pantasma]

...Hoooooow? That's a high school thing, even in the States. Unless you're unlucky and the school/district support Holocaust deniers, which so often seems to bleed out to encompass things shortly after the War, too.

Re: Things you thought were common knowledge, but aren't?

[pantasma]

I have a great-grandfather from Czechoslovakia. The only reason we continue to refer to it as such, even though he moved to the US and married after the separation of the countries, is because he refused to talk about it. My family knew he came from that area, but not whether he came from the Czech Republic or Slovakia. We all just assume some Bad Shit went down, and no-one pushed it.

/storytime

Re: Things you thought were common knowledge, but aren't?

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting! I hadn't thought much about that aspect of it, but the union and subsequent separation were both pretty traumatic, from what I know of it.

Re: Things you thought were common knowledge, but aren't?

[pantasma]

Same. Whatever happened in his life, specifically, we never learned. But that's why I make the distinction when it comes up, beyond referencing him (which, realistically, is every time but right now and 6/7 months ago). Which it does fairly often, when you're talking about the "classical" and/or opera scene in Europe.