Bernie Sander's 1988 Trip to Yaroslavl, Soviet Union

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Paul Sonne, In Early Returns, Bernie Sanders Has Won Yaroslavl; A 1988 Soviet Union trip created small, ardent following northeast of Moscow. Wall Street Journal, Jan 30, 2016 (front page).
http://www.wsj.com/articles/figh ... aroslavl-1454099220


Note:
(a) The German surname Sonne is from "Middle German sonne, sunne 'sun.' "
(b) "Yuri Novikov feels the Bern."

feel the burn (phrase; popularized by actress Jane Fonda in her highly successful aerobic exercise videotapes):
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/feel_the_burn

(c)
(i) Yaroslavl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaroslavl
(Population: 591,486 (2010 Census); Yaroslavl was founded by a prince of Kievan Rus Yaroslav the Wise [c 978 – 1054]; UNESCO World Heritage Site)
(ii) Yaroslavl
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/yaroslavl
(pronunciation)

(d) "Jane O’Meara Sanders, the Vermont senator’s wife, said in an interview Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa, ahead of Monday’s caucuses in the state, that she and her husband knew they had little time to take off, and so scheduled their wedding right before their already-planned departure for the Soviet Union.  'Because we’re both workaholics, we said, "OK, we’re not going to be able to have any time off after we get married. Why don’t we just do it now?" ' she said."

take off:
"4: not go to work
5: leave suddenly"
http://www.macmillandictionary.c ... /british/take-off_1

Definition 4 is only found in MacMillan dictionary, but in my view the best fit/


(e) "Yaroslavl has a population about 14 times the size of Burlington’s"

Burlington, Vermont
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington,_Vermont
(Burlington had a population of 42,417 at the 2010 census; section 1 Etymology)
(f) In print: the article ends with the paragraph: "People don’t even think it’s possible," he said.