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Watching a Rage Against The Machine concert on the box.

My companion is Svetlana.

Her eyes are wide and round.

Rage Against The Machine are singing their one good song, an agit prop thing called Sleep Now In The Fire.

It's all very anarchisty, and communisty, and Michael Moorey.

The lead guitarist is wearing a tee shirt with CCCP emblazoned across it.

This is the symbol of the old Russian communist dictatorship.

In English it stands for Union of Soviet and Socialist Republics.

Svetlana stares at the guitarist.

"If he'd ever lived in my country," she murmurs softly, "he'd never wear the tee shirt."