The Seattle-Tashkent Connection

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Some may ask, whatever do Seattle and Tashkent have in common? What does a 135-year-old city share with a city that has 2003 years of recorded history? What is the link between a green, wet North Pacific seaport and an arid, landlocked Central Asian metropolis on ancient caravan routes?How is a Western city of the American superpower related to an Eastern city of the Soviet superpower? The answer is, we are Sister Cities.

read here:
http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC15/Doan.htm

[ББ]

read here:
http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC15/Doan.htm
:rolleyes:

two points:

-i have quite short memory of the 70's but i am certain there were not any Mayors of Tashkent.
- secondly, the article gives too much credit to the "mayors" (i think they meant gorispolkom). i am more than sure that the "mayor' could not go to bathroom in the US without first consulting KGB and higher athorites.

i guess what i am saying that things are not as rosy and simple as often described. also, what the author is saying is sort of truth overall but very inaccurate in details. i mean, do you really believe that 120 thousand tashkenters somehow got organized and signed a letter to the US? that's just funny to me...

bb

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BB
i have just asked my father about that . question was "father,do you know any american sister city of Tahskent?"
He said "before it was Seattle but now i dont know coz some many things had changed in the world" ..
besides that i remember from an english book of 5th or 6TH grade of old soviet education. there was a short history about these 2 sisters cities .That is why i posted it here .i thought it would be an interesting..
btw...welcome back BB!!

[ББ]

i admire your quest for knowledge and willingness to share with your compatriots.

however, one must be careful of sources, especially the ones which overall sound okay, but mislead with details.

i did additional research for you (i brought this issue up with serveral people). these people told me that all 7-10th graders in Tashkent were told to write letters to Seattle as "a directive from above". sad but true. the scary thing is: not many things have changed since then...

be well, my friend.
bb

PS the way you said "i asked my father" reminded me of an old poem:

Крошка сын к отцу пришёл и сказала кроха,
что такое хорошо, а что такое плохо?