What better way to wrap up Season 1 Episode 20 of Curious Sisters Podcast than by trying to cram in 20 interesting (hopefully) facts about Russia? Correct answer - no better way! Technically, this was a rhetorical question, which does not require an answer, but we digress... Tune in to learn a thing or two (or maybe 20) you didn't know about Russia.

The word of the episode - spasibo (Russian: спасибо) - thank you. Bonus word of the episode - pozhalusta (Russian: пожалуйста) - you are welcome.

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Bones, ribs, my grandma's skeleton...what do they have to do with music? This week Kat and Nastia discuss how an underground subculture of music lovers and bootleggers defied censorship and came up with a brilliant solution to distribute music that was banned from broadcast in the Soviet Union in the 1950s. Amazingly, they built their own recording machines and used an extraordinary means of copying forbidden jazz, rock 'n' roll and banned Russian music to risk making their own records.

The word of the episode - otkrytka (Russian: Открытка) - postcard

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