3/24/2023 0 Comments Soap opera updates in 1990s![]() ![]() ![]() Years later, when I made my first Russian friend, we bonded over La Usurpadora. The Venezuelan telenovela Kassandra, I found out from my Serbian friend, had been something of an obsession in Yugoslavia as it was disintegrating in the early 90s. It was when I anecdotally recounted plots of telenovelas to friends from post-communist countries other than Romania that I realised that the trend had caught on in their households as well. Part of it was about shedding Soviet and Russian influence, and part of it was down to a dogmatic school curriculum that had everyone repeating the same phrase throughout geography lessons: “Romania is a medium-sized country in the Carpato-Danubian-Pontic space, and its people speak a Romance, or Latin language.” ![]() While the evidence I have relating to other former communist states is largely anecdotal, I can mostly speak for Romanians when I say that not only did telenovelas become a bit of a national pastime, they also helped shape the identity of a people yearning to be recognised as culturally different from the so-called “Sea of Slavs” around them. ![]()
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