hello i am new to this community!! *waves* I was actually hoping someone could help me out with some Niche Russia Info for fic purposes 👀👀👀 I've been doing a little research on my own but a lot of it is super dry and hard to parse, so if anyone has any recommendations I would really appreciate it ( Read more... )

Since Illya's box of jazz records under his bed is firmly fanon (if not 100% canon!) I thought this page would be of interest as background...

Jazz Behind the Iron Curtain

... especially to the writers among us! There's even a page on the Stilyagi, a rebellious youth culture that flourished in the U.S.S.R. around the same time our Illya was a