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[shipperx]

You know what... I loved Reagan.

There. I said it. Unfriend, ignore me, or whatever.

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[miggy.livejournal.com]

Like I said to xionin: I had problems with a lot of what he did, but I like other parts. A lot. As a kindergartener, I was seriously called "a Soviet spy" and mistrusted by my classmates. Their raised-on-duck-and-cover parents probably saw the class photo. When tensions eased, though, the last name suddenly stopped mattering. When they saw Reagan and Gorbachav together, suddenly, everything was different. I'm not going to pretend that didn't matter to me, because some days were hell and I didn't even understand why.

(And this wasn't in some flag-waving Middle America town that was somehow telling their kids that my last name meant a five year year old was a spy; this was Eugene, Oregon. I have to wonder what it would have been like with the most-Russian-of-all-Russian-names somewhere else in the country.)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

A Soviet Spy, huh?

I had a friend from Romania in the first grade. She got teased a lot as well. Don't remember anyone thinking "spy" just that because her culture was rather different from your generic small town southerner she was frequently thought to be somewhat odd.

I think, however, she and her family changed me for life. . . they introduced me to Star Trek. :D

[miggy.livejournal.com]

I think it was all because my last name is about the only one your typical 80s American associated with Russia more than "Gorbachev." And now, well, they associate it WAY more. :)