My Friends of Yesterday Lusya, Nellya, Lara, Galya, Rimma, Zoya, Emma, Valya! All My Life is Warmed by Thoughts of You as if by June Hot Summer Sun! (About the Annual Meeting of the International Badek Club on March 17, 2013)

Here he is, Andrey Mironov who sings for us: “My Friends of Yesterday” The favorite artist of our young days performs brilliantly in the movie “The Straw Hat”. He’s light, sparkling with talent, unrepeatable Mironov. “Do you remember Andrey Mironov?”, I asked Lusya Kuznetsova, one of my classmates of yesterday, who was known for her…

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What does the Hyphen Mean in the Name of the Slovak Country? (About the Book “Illustrated Slovak History”, A Struggle for Sovereignty in Cenrtal Europe) by Spiesz, Caplovic,ed. Bolchazy, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishing Inc., Wauconda Illinois, USA, English Edition, 2006.

Each and every historian has his/her own opinion, and Mr. Anton Spiesz is not and exclusion of this rule, his honest historical truth as he sees it portraying what past times have witnessed, while many aspects were hidden from the general public. Who are the Slovaks? What is their contribution to the Western culture? Located…

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BADEK NEWS 56

One. Calgary couple Sid and Bronia Cyngiser are nominated for Immigrant of Distinction award for telling stories about their experience to survive Holocaust. Now they are 80 and 88 years old, have spoken a few hundred times at schools, churches, conferences from Grand Prairie and Suffield to Yellowknife. Bronia admits that it can be difficult…

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