This may seem obvious to some of you more worldly travelers, but I honestly had no idea that people in other countries sang the American Happy Birthday song in English! Ukraine isn’t like Western Europe, where everyone speaks English — most folks speak little to none, so I was pleasantly surprised to capture the following birthday celebration.
QUOTE:
"Kyiv is a bilingual capital, something unusual in Europe and unthinkable in Russia and the United States."
-- Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
"Kyiv is a bilingual capital, something unusual in Europe and unthinkable in Russia and the United States."
-- Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
