> I'm pretty sure he even used to make those same references when talking to his native British colleagues, using them to describe life in the former Yugoslavia & assuming they'd read the same comics as kids.
Reminds me of the claim – possibly apocryphal – that some undercover Soviet spies in the UK were outed because, when the conversation turned to Blue Peter (which supposedly every real Brit knew from childhood) they had no idea what that was.
Reminds me of the claim – possibly apocryphal – that some undercover Soviet spies in the UK were outed because, when the conversation turned to Blue Peter (which supposedly every real Brit knew from childhood) they had no idea what that was.