REFERENCE: My Story (Part I)

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NARRATIVE

Saigon

 

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, a 150sqm Tadd-AO screen and a stereo sound system to indulge up to 1,200 customers

 

Dr. Zhivago

 

http://www.texasescapes.com/JT/Doctor-Zhivago-in-Vietnam.htm

Doctor Zhivago in Vietnam or The Night the War was Forgotten. I personally can remember only one film being shown in our company area during our days in Bong Son.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/during-cold-war-cia-used-doctor-zhivago-as-a-tool-to-undermine-soviet-union/2014/04/05/2ef3d9c6-b9ee-11e3-9a05-c739f29ccb08_story.html

During Cold War, CIA used ‘Doctor Zhivago’ as a tool to undermine Soviet Union.

 

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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Zhivago_(novel)

Doctor Zhivago (/ʒɪˈvɑːɡoʊ/ zhiv-AH-goh; Russian: До́ктор Жива́го [doktər ʐɨˈvaɡə][1]) is a novel by Russian poet, author and composer Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy. The novel is named after its protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet, and takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and World War II.

 

U.S. Involvement

 

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.

 

Communist Literature

 

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.

 

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=How_the_Steel_Was_Tempered

The book is on sale on Amazon.com. Read the reviews.

 

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

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boris_Pasternak_1959_photo.jpg
The picture is for reference only. It is not used in the book.

 

Nikolai Ostrovsky

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1964_CPA_3033_stamp_(Soviet_Writers._Nikolai_Ostrovsky_(1904-1936)._Illustration_for_the_novel_%27How_the_Steel_Was_Tempered%27)_small_resolution.jpg
The picture is for reference only. It is not used in the book.

 

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.