So yesterday I was feeding my kids breakfast when all of a sudden Gila, age 2, started singing a loud and wonderful rendition of this song:
(To the Tune of London Bridge)
Capitalism's Falling Down, Falling Down, Falling Down
Capitalism's Falling Down, So Says Lenin
Communism's Going Up, Going Up, Going Up
Communism's Going Up, So Says Stalin
Where did she learn such a thing? When Greg's grandfather passed away in November, we spent 4 days in Connecticut with the family. Greg's cousin Jonathan Sanders who is an expert on all things Russian (he was the CBS News Moscow Correspondent until the Cold War Ended, he wrote the books: The Russians Emerge and Russia, 1917: The Unpublished Revolution and taught/teaches Russian History amongst other things at Columbia University and Princeton) taught this lovely ditty to the kids every time one of them was on his lap. I find it pretty funny, but I wonder what their teachers will think when they try to sing London Bridge and my kids start singing this version on the top of their lungs in Preschool.
Oh well. Viva La'Difference!