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Vaida Nicodème (Niksaite)

@vaidanik.bsky.social
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Historian of modern Europe with a focus on CEE, working on diasporas, mass politics, propaganda, and crowdfunding across borders. Research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History, associate at @ox.ac.uk and @ulbruxelles.bsky.social

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HPS.CESEE @hpscesee.bsky.social · 3h
CFP: Science in the Field: People, Practices and Environments in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union (Fribourg, 14–15 June 2027) Submission deadline: 1 December 2026 More: hpscesee.blogspot.co...
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AABS @balticstudies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As the new academic year gets underway, it's a good time to reflect on where we've been and where we're going. We're thinking back to last year's Baltic Ways episode on the state of Baltic Studies which remains highly relevant today. Listen now: aabs-balticstudies.org/podcast
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Benoît Majerus @majben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Three PhDs (#Singapore, #Panama and #BritishVirginIslands) in #offshore studies sponsored by @erc.europa.eu at @c2dh.uni.lu #phd #financialhistory www.uni.lu/en/jobs/doct... www.uni.lu/en/jobs/doct... www.uni.lu/en/jobs/doct...
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Doctoral Researcher in Economic and Financial History with Focus on Panama
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Funny how *these* farmer protests don't grab the headlines
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Mart Kuldkepp @martkuldkepp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The English version of my book on Estonia’s Nordic identity and the struggle for Estonian independence is coming soon from the University of Wisconsin Press: uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/N/Nord...
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Vaida Nicodème (Niksaite) @vaidanik.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Submission deadline: 11 November 2026
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Call for Papers "Literature at Work in Colonisation and Globalisation: Uses and Ambivalences of Literary Production in Global Power Contexts, c. 1850–1980"
<p><u><strong>Call for papers for the international conference on 11–12 February 2027 at ULB (Brussels). The conference explores the role of literature in processes of colonisation and globalisation, ...
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Dovile Budryte @dbudryte.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The handbook that we have been working on for years is finally available for pre-order! Please consider asking your libraries to order this book: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
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The Routledge Handbook of Memory in Post-Socialist Europe
This handbook shows how memory operates simultaneously as lived experience, institutional practice, geopolitical weapon, and resource for imagining the future. It explores decolonial and postcolonial ...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Astra Taylor and I wrote this book together because facing the monsters alone is just too scary. When we face them with friends, however, we don’t just get scared–we get mad, we get motivated, and we get organized.
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HPS.CESEE @hpscesee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Exciting news! The website for the new Open Access journal East of the Elbe is now open to visitors. Submissions open on 15 September: www.whp-journals.co....
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Vaida Nicodème (Niksaite) @vaidanik.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Deeply impressed by Prof. Segal’s work and courage, and very glad to learn about the outcome of this battle.
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An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza. Now the university is paying him $250,000
The University of Minnesota withdrew an offer for Raz Segal to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies after an organized campaign against his hiring
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Ukraine Advocate 🇺🇦 @eugenemcparland.eurosky.social · 02/08/2026
A key provision of the EU regulation on artificial intelligence comes into force on Sunday August 2. Professional designers and users of #AI systems will have to mention that their content was created by this technology, under penalty of fines. www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...
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Intelligence artificielle : la mention « généré par IA » devient obligatoire dans l’UE
Une disposition-clé du règlement européen sur l’intelligence artificielle entre en vigueur dimanche 2 août. Les concepteurs et utilisateurs professionnels de systèmes d’IA devront mentionner que leurs...
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Vaida Nicodème (Niksaite) @vaidanik.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“Writing tip #8 : Embodiment. Anytime you can make an idea or a concept come alive through a person or an event, do it. An argument made through vivid, concrete human thought and action is much more powerful and memorable than a dry abstraction.”
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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Poland's right-wing opposition PiS party is set to split after a more moderate faction of over 30 MPs loyal to deputy leader and former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki refused to sign a loyalty pledge demanded by leader Jarosław Kaczyński, who said today that meant they had effectively resigned.
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Polish opposition PiS party set to split, with over 30 MPs being expelled
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Matthieu Boisdron @mtthboisdron.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🎓 📖 J’ai le plaisir de signer dans ce volume collectif, dirigé par Marie-Bénédicte Vincent, à paraître le 28 juillet, le chapitre consacré à la Hongrie de Miklós Horthy. J’essaie de définir la nature de ce régime et de montrer sa spécificité dans le paysage européen des années 1920 et 1930.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 22/07/2026
'The Historian's Craft & Practice: new writing on history teaching and historical research' bit.ly/45l8I2M Selected recent articles from the Society's journal, 'Transactions', on the practice of pedagogy and research. All content available Open Access. New article submissions invited #Skystorians
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The Historian's Craft and Practice: new writing on history teaching and historical research - RHS
The Society's academic journal, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, publishes a wide range of content from historians of all disciplinary backgrounds and career stages, worldwide. This inclu...
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TVP World @tvpworld.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Poland is planning its biggest rail expansion in history. A new €143 billion program aims to build 4,700 km of new railway lines and modernize 5,600 km more, with high-speed routes designed to cut travel times between major cities and strengthen military mobility.
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Poland to plow €143 bln into ambitious railways revamp
The railway expansion is a key element of Poland's flagship transport hub project, Port Polska.
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Vaida Nicodème (Niksaite) @vaidanik.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Lovin’ my cup of coffee this morning at the UIUC Slavic Reference Service 🤓
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Vaida Nicodème (Niksaite) @vaidanik.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
What a pleasure it was to discover this legendary forum dedicated to the Baltic world. I very much hope to be there for the next edition in Tartu 🇪🇪!
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HPS.CESEE @hpscesee.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
CfP: Conference "Switzerland as an Incubator of Political Ideas for the Future of Central and Eastern Europe Between 1848 and 1918" more:
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CfP: Conference "Switzerland as an Incubator of Political Ideas for the Future of Central and Eastern Europe Between 1848 and 1918" | Departement Geschichte | Universität Basel
Over the course of the 19th century, Switzerland became one of the most important destinations for political exiles in Europe, including those from Central and Eastern Europe. Its central geographical location, its democratic constitution and extensive freedoms of the press and assembly made Switzerland an important place of refuge. Cities such as Zurich, Geneva, Lausanne and Bern became hubs for political activity in exile.
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Julia Eichenberg @jeichenberg.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Great PhD opportunity (fr/engl, ) on Cookbooks during the 1910s and 1920s with Emmanuelle Cronier at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne - Share and Apply! adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...
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Vaida Nicodème (Niksaite) @vaidanik.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Please support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, and 100% free. donate.wikimedia.org
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Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation
Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
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Franziska Davies @efdavies.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Last Sunday was the 40th anniversary of the explosion of the atomic reactor in Chornobyl. Yet, even today, the Ukrainian dimension of this crucial event for European history is often overlooked. In this essay, I describe how Moscow's response strengthened the Ukrainian independence movement:
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Chornobyl. 40 years on.
The Ukrainian dimension of the nuclear accident in 1986 and how it galvanized the Ukrainian independence movement is still often overlooked.
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Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We’re delighted to announce our ‘Women in Revolution’ webinar Thursday 4 June 7:00-8:15 PM featuring @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @earner.bsky.social + Catriona Kennedy. Attendance is free. All are welcome For more info + to register 👀👇 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d2a073...
Poster for the Women in Revolution webinar on 4 June at 7.00 pm.
Showing portions of images from James Whately's 'The Dublin Volunteers on College Green, 1779' and 'The Irish House of Commons, 1780' featuring women.
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Vaida Nicodème (Niksaite) @vaidanik.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Long-awaited, fantastic article by Katherine Lebow on Polish 'ordinary' people’s memoirs of #WWI, exploring how the war generated new mobilities, perspectives and subjectivities, and how these histories from the margins have been silenced. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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Grasping the Pencil: Polish Memoirs of Childhood on the Eastern Front, 1914–1921* | The Journal of Modern History: Vol 98, No 1
Abstract This article recovers the voices of civilian survivors of World War I in parts of today’s Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Poland. Drawing on a rare cache of retrospective accounts composed i...
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Vaida Nicodème (Niksaite) @vaidanik.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Ambitious in scope and bold in its argument, also not lacking in good jokes, this is a compelling read on the present, past and future of the #Baltic region by journalist Oliver Moody.
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Gwendal Piégais @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Happy to announce the publication of my article on international volunteers in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War @euroreviewhistory.bsky.social. Thanks to @sdanisimova.bsky.social & Robert Gerwarth for their support and to the reviewers for their advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Commissars for the ‘world civil war’: recruiting and educating internationalists in the Russian Civil War, 1918–1920
Nearly 18,000 people enlisted in international volunteers’ units in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. With many of them being former prisoners of war and foreign workers, the technical and...
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AABS @balticstudies.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
AABS is pleased to announce the publication of "Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Reconsidered," eds. Bradley Woodworth, Violeta Davoliūtė & Darius Staliūnas, supported by a 2025 AABS Book Publication Subvention Grant. Link to the book in post following!
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CEU Press Executes AABS Book Publication Subvention for Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Reconsidered – AABS
Ethnic relations in the Baltic Reconsidered has been published open access by CEU Press thanks in part to an AABS grant.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
When you protest, you say this isn't normal and you prime yourself for other kinds of organization. And protests give a sense of hope. I talked with @katiecouric.bsky.social about the challenges we are facing and what people can do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U0I...
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Historian Timothy Snyder on Orbán's Defeat, Christian Nationalism, and What Trump Is Really Planning
YouTube video by Katie Couric
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
40 years ago one of the reactors of the nuclear station of Chornobyl went into meltdown and exploded. The consequences of this event still reverberate today, not least in the ongoing struggle for independence by Ukraine and Belarus. The accident ripped off the plaster covering past Soviet wounds.
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Harry C. Merritt @harrymerritt.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
An exciting forthcoming publication on an understudied topic (and one with very little written on it in English)--the Duchy of Courland (Europe's smallest colonial power), its encounters with Africa and the Americas, and its many entanglements with other European states. bsky.app/profile/john...
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Catherine Gibson @catherinegibson.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I'm looking for two postdocs/research fellows (2.5 years, 100%) to join the #ERC project EMPSOLID. Preference for candidates with expertise on the Caucasus and/or Central Asia🌏, but applications focusing on other regions of the Romanov Empire are also encouraged.
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Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com · 20/04/2026
Kombinatas is an annual gathering for left-wing organisations and individuals around the Baltic region. This year it will take place in this lush location in Lithuania. 1/2
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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Please help defend Ukrainian civilians from Russian missiles.
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Timothy Snyder Joins Sky Defense to Help Protect Ukrainian Cities
The goal is $500,000, which will be used to procure interceptor drones and other air defense equipment.
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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 20/04/2026
I have GONE WILD on the 1926 Irish census and have made some fun discoveries: Trinidadian medical students, a Baháʼí couple in Donegal, the Irish widow of an emigré Cossack, and Egyptian sailors in Cork city - among many others.
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Peter Head @peterheadcbe.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. www.forbes.com/sites/kensil...
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Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.
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Vaida Nicodème (Niksaite) @vaidanik.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Very happy to have taken part in this stimulating two-day forum on 19th century transnational histories in East Central Europe. www.dhi.waw.pl/en/events/ta...
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Anna Colin Lebedev @colinlebedev.cpesr.fr · 29/03/2026
L’entretien de Lavrov sur France 2 est un cas d’école de la vulnérabilité de nos médias face aux stratégies d’influence russes. Entre la nécessité de la polyphonie et le piège de la mise en scène, l'équilibre est fragile. Comment protéger notre espace médiatique ? colinlebedev.fr/2026/03/29/l... 1/2
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L’interview de Lavrov sur France 2 : comment tirer les bonnes leçons d’un cas de vulnérabilité médiatique à l’influence russe ?
L’interview du ministre des Affaires étrangères russe, Sergueï Lavrov par Léa Salamé, diffusée sur France 2, ne m’a pas mise en colère. Elle m’a confirmé dans la conviction qu’il y a une urgence à …
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 26/03/2026
everyone’s discussing how financially stupid this is and they’re right but it’s also logistically stupid. zero way to charge foreigners and not locals without a hell of a lot of racism coming out in the wash
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Vaida Nicodème (Niksaite) @vaidanik.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Pieter Lagrou sur la génuflexion de Bart De Wever.
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"Bart De Wever a choisi de s'agenouiller devant Poutine et Trump. C'est un manque de courage mais surtout un manque de compréhension"
Dans une interview à L'Écho, le Premier ministre a déclaré au sujet au sujet de la guerre en Ukraine, qu'"il faut se réarmer et remilitariser la...
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Vaida Nicodème (Niksaite) @vaidanik.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
"- And what would you say to people who deny the risk of new Russian aggression? - If they’re so sure, they should publicly swear that they will personally come to fight against the Russian army in the event of a new invasion. Without this, their words are worthless."
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Gwendal Piégais @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
CFP: "Nationalities and National Diversity in Revolutionary #Ukraine, 1917-21". University of #Vienna, 3-5 September 2026. Submission Deadline: 31 May 2026 nuru.univie.ac.at/en/news/news...
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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Showing my ignorance here, but I had not realised that LSE's digital library had grown so much since I'd last browsed it. What a remarkable set of online archives relating to a comprehensive range of past and present social movements: digital.library.lse.ac.uk
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Home - LSE Digital Library
Welcome to LSE Digital Library where you can access our born-digital and digitised collections.
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Vaida Nicodème (Niksaite) @vaidanik.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
a beautiful piece of scholarship 🗃️
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Peripheral Histories? @peripheralhist.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
A call for papers that may be of interest to our readers - The 'Hybrid Identities in Imperial Spaces of Northern Eurasia' conference will be held at the University of Szczecin in October networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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Hybrid Identities in Imperial Spaces of Northern Eurasia | H-Net
Conference Call for Papers: Hybrid Identities in Imperial Spaces of Northern EurasiaPlace and Date: 28–29 October 2026, University of Szczecin, PolandConveners: Stanisław Boridczenko (University of Sz...
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Vaida Nicodème (Niksaite) @vaidanik.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
At last! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Vaida Nicodème (Niksaite) @vaidanik.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
so handy and much needed. library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... #herstory 🗃️
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Vaida Nicodème (Niksaite) @vaidanik.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
so handy and much needed. library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... #herstory 🗃️
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Vaida Nicodème (Niksaite) @vaidanik.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Allgorhythm! www.youtube.com/watch?v=erR5... #Laibach
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Laibach - Allgorhythm (feat. Wiyaala) [Official Video]
YouTube video by Laibach
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Vaida Nicodème (Niksaite) @vaidanik.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Well, this was strange, and fun. mubi.com/en/be/films/...
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Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989) | MUBI
A struggling Siberian rock band leaves home in the lonely tundra to tour the United States because, as they’re told, “they’ll buy anything there.” The musicians bravely venture across the States, carr...
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