TV Review for PBS: Soviet Young Pioneers + The Lincolns

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Dorothy Rabinowitz, From Russia With Love and Fear. Wall Street Journal , June 24, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304569504576403253256137430.html
("'All the crazy claims, the constant Soviet talk about how a milkmaid had milked a millions tons.' Things like that, ridiculous as they were, they had heard all their lives, and they had made an impression on people")

Note:
(a) The TV review on
(i) Robin Hessman, My Perestroika. PBS, June 28, 2011 (POV);
(ii) David Grubin, Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided. PBS, Mondays, June 27, July 11, July 18, July 25 and Aug 1 ('The American Experience')

* POV (TV series)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POV_(TV_series)
(a PBS series which features independent nonfiction films. POV is a cinema term for "point of view")

(b) Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Pioneer_organization_of_the_Soviet_Union
(for children of age 10–15 in the Soviet Union between 1922 and 1991)
(c) Leonid Brezhnev
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev
(1906-1982; General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1964-1982;
(d) glasnost: openness
perestroika:  restructuring
(e) Mary Todd Lincoln
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Todd_Lincoln
(1818-1882; born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky; left home at an early age to attend a finishing school where she learned to speak French fluently, studied dance, drama, music and social graces; at 20 in 1839, she went to Springfield, Illinois; Abraham Lincoln, age 33, married Mary Todd, age 23, in 1842)

* The nortehrn English and Scottish surname Todd meant "fox" in Middle English.

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