https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtnCTYD3nqY

The Moskva may not have a delta at the Oka, but the russian alphabet does have a «дэ» ... I wonder what was the inspiration for this rather [slidey](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино-4/10803/), bluesy tune?


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eDX7htLp0Y
Oleg Gazmanov's video adventure ends much more smoothly than did [Herr Rust's:
![Mathias Rust Red Square](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/MRust.jpg)
historical adventure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust) but I guess that's an advantage daydreams have over IRL.

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## Я думаю, это [Дюма](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/quotes/10579/).  Ура!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKwWzd8zXYU

A young Mikhail Boyarski played in the 1970's live action interpetation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTF4dbWleyc

and to this day it seems he's never completely given up the costume:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB-biELAbI0

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v-tmPqeTSM
Double Max's interpretation of "Kalinka" is much closer to my zik than [the last crossover](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино-6/11217/) attempt we saw.


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss-LbMxtekA

is Marina Devyatova's interpretation of "Wind of Change".  

> For hundreds of years, all the winds have returned / In circles / Tomorrow the wind will change

With a little digging it's easy to discover it's from a 1983 made-for-TV Mary Poppins:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbXX0Wu34f8

While the title of the song would be echoed by a famous-in-the-east [Kino](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино-7/11446/) tune, "Change" (ca. 1987):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU8csnZxdPA

It was quoted nearly directly for a famous-in-the-west Scorpions tune, in [1991](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4RjJKxsamQ).