The assimilationist policies implemented under the Communist regime aimed to erase ethnic and racial identities, favouring the steady progress of all-embracing national identification. Georgian groups, Lithuanian groups, Estonian groups, Moldavian groups took after us - it wasn't just Russians. One of the Deputy Ministers of Culture liked us, and we became a government, state group. Diesem nach, sollte auch der Solist Lungu mitwirken, der aber in letzter Minute wegen einer Heiserkeit durch Luif ersetzt werden musste. As far as we knew, he played it before in princess Bibescu's salon in Paris, where Proust would have listened to her in Enescu's interpretation, a fact recounted in his novel, In Search of Lost Time.
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