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Viktor was a genius
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in mathematics.
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Whereas Plato
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was a "rat charmer",
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a pied piper of Hamelin,
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making people follow him
like rats...
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We live in the age
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of these rat charmers.
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Gorbachev was one, so was Yeltsin.
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I spot them with my eyes closed.
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I know that you were
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the chief accountant
of Plato's company...
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which made brooms.
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I need to take my medicine.
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What brooms?
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They wrote theses
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for rich idiots.
1,000 rubles per thesis.
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- And they stone-washed jeans.
- Why?
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From the start of perestroika,
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he started drumming into them
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that a new age of freedom
was coming.
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But they still needed money
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to start off with.
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The two of them took their Ph D's,
became doctors,
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but the idiots gave up science
to stone-wash jeans.
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But it was the Georgian
who really cleared up.
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Do you want a drink?
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11 years before Plato's death
Dry cleaning cooperative, Moscow
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- Viktor, they're fake Levis!
- Of course.
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We'll write you a brilliant thesis,
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but why do you need it?
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I run a Lada garage in Georgia.
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Moussa just messed up
his 5th pair.