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The arrival of the Russian State Circus in Argentina in 1966 was an unprecedented event. For the first time, Soviet artists crossed the Iron Curtain into Latin America. Their art was unsurpassed, until in the 1990s, with the perestroika and the Soviet collapse, the circus also disappeared.
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00:00The Circus of Moscow was the most important spectacle in Russia in that time.
00:10They were playing and the music would jump.
00:17That was one of the great cultural events of humanity.
00:22Welcome to the Circus.
00:25Welcome to Circus.
00:27We were the best clowns in the world.
00:31And that was how in 1966 they brought a Circus of Moscow to Lunaparte.
00:39The public was standing there.
00:41We decided, we wanted freedom. Freedom. Freedom in a free world.
00:48The whole plane was waiting for us.
00:57It started a little, let's say, a little disaster.
01:01When the Circus of Moscow began, all artists were on the street.
01:06They just left us.
01:09This Circus of Moscow, for me, destroyed a population of 240 million inhabitants.
01:15Oops.
01:16For me, it was the Circus of Moscow that I saw.
01:19And it was a world of magic.
01:20And this is kind of a world of magicoid.
01:21A complete mystery of the America.
01:21Your planet is not available to us on their spirit.
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