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43628 Re: An amazing video which would have been impossible to imagine just a few years ago...
   Interesting, re-sent to others, great to see... Next month we'll be ne...
weco   FFFT   19 Jun 2012
11:38 PM
43622 Re: An amazing video which would have been impossible to imagine just a few years ago...
   OCU: Love Flash Mobs. Nice seeing Russians into joy. My favorite...
killthecat   FFFT   19 Jun 2012
4:20 PM

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An amazing video which would have been impossible to imagine just a few years ago...

By: oldCADuser in FFFT
Tue, 19 Jun 12 11:06 AM
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What a crazy, delightful ever changing world! Who could have thought that in 2012 young people in Moscow would put on a "flash mob" happening,

dancing to an 83 year old American song written by a Russian born American-Jew (Irving Berlin) whose last name is the capital of Germany.

This is the best mob scene you will ever see!

http://www.youtube.com/embed/KgoapkOo4vg?rel=0

BTW, I've stood almost exactly where this video was shot. Check the photo below (taken in April, 1994)...

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...against the videos at time-stamps 1:28, 2:40 and 4:25.

Note that his building is one of several built during the Stalin era which share a certain look, in this case the building is part of the Moscow State University, which might explain why a lot of people in the video look like they could be college students.




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