REFERENCE: My Story (Part I)

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NARRATIVE

https://saigoneer.com/saigon-heritage/2630-the-cinemas-of-old-saigon

One of these was the Rex, owned by a female millionaire named Ưng Thi who was determined to make her cinema the city’s most modern. She first chose to build the Rex on one of Saigon’s premier thoroughfares – Nguyễn Huệ Boulevard – and adorned her cinema with the most developed technology at the time such as, high-speed air-cons…

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Zhivago_(film)

Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 epic historical romance film directed by David Lean with a screenplay by Robert Bolt, based on the 1957 novel by Boris Pasternak.

 

https://www.thoughtco.com/1965-u-s-sends-troops-to-vietnam-1779379

Under the authority of President Lyndon B. Johnson, the United States first deployed troops to Vietnam in 1965 in response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 2 and 4, 1964. On March 8, 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines landed near Da Nang in South Vietnam, thereby escalating the Vietnam Conflict and marking the United States' first action of the subsequent Vietnam War.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Steel_Was_Tempered

How the Steel Was Tempered (Russian: Как закалялась сталь, romanized: Kak zakalyalas stal) or The Making of a Hero, is a socialist realist novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936). With 36.4 million copies sold, it is one of the best-selling books of all time and the best-selling book in the Russian language.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Ostrovsky

His novel How the Steel Was Tempered is considered one of the most influential works of Communist literature. In Moscow during the Communist period the Ostrovsky Museum and the Ostrovsky Humanitarian centre were built. They preserve his study and bedroom.

PICTORIAL

Boris Pasternak

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Nikolai Ostrovsky

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The old Rex Cinema

https://saigoneer.com/saigon-heritage/2630-the-cinemas-of-old-saigon
The famous escalator to the 2nd floor is seen in the image.