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UnFictional

Looping Swans

UnFictional

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.4923 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In Soviet Russia, when the TV started playing Swan Lake, it meant something had hit the fan.

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0:00.0

LA has the largest jail system in the country.

0:05.0

You got people that have been in jail just like one time and their life can't get nothing because of whatever mistake they made.

0:11.0

I stole some ground turkey because I wanted to feed my family. We was hungry.

0:15.0

Off the block, stories tracing the path from city block to cell block and back.

0:21.0

Find it now at KCRW.com or I'm Bob Carlson and this is Unfictional. Unfictional is a program of true stories andaries, and on this episode,

0:44.0

Looping Swans. It's the complex story of Swan Lake, the Soviet Union, and the Russian

0:50.8

people. From KCRW.com it's unfictional.

0:55.0

It was absolutely funny story,

1:00.0

absolutely funny story.

1:02.0

On 18th of focus in 1991, it was Sunday, I remember that.

1:08.0

And we had friends who came from, not from Moscow, and we had a party and I was absolutely drunk and when I

1:20.3

woke up on Monday so it was about quarter to seven or something like this feeling

1:25.9

absolutely bad.

1:28.7

For me I just was trying to find the good position for my body to be a little bit relaxed because my

1:36.3

headache so I can just switch on TV and just fall down on sofa.

1:49.3

And I was in the sofa TV set was in the other corner and I heard that Swan Lake.

1:57.0

For how long it was in what particular part of Swan Lake it was I don't remember exactly

2:07.8

but it was Swan Lake and many many times like loop. Of course the first association that this is the great music.

2:19.0

Chikovsky who created this he was great.

2:22.0

But in about 15 minutes I thought this was just excellent sign that

2:30.2

oh, someone date.

2:35.0

Someone date.

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