posted on June 12, 2008 01:45:32 PM new
Does anyone have an idea what this postcard is about? I can't figure out the significance of the XXI - the guy is Lenin. The back appears to have two year dates (maybe not even year dates but who knows?) in lower right corner: 1958r and 1926. Thanks.
oops! would help if I posted the image:
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posted on June 12, 2008 01:58:06 PM new
perhaps an illustration intended to represent Lenin's vision for the 21st Century?
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The Twenty-one Conditions, officially the Conditions of Admission to the Communist International, refer to the conditions given by Lenin to the adhesion of the socialists to the Third International (Comintern) created in 1919 after the 1917 October Revolution. The conditions were formally adopted by the Second Congress of the Comintern in 1920. The conditions were:
posted on June 12, 2008 02:00:04 PM new
You are probably right about the 21st Century, there are rockets in the upper right corner and maybe a monorail track to the right of Lenin.
posted on June 12, 2008 10:58:51 PM new
Not that smart, I've learned to use the language bar on my computer to switch to the Russian keyset- then it's just a matter of using Google and their Translate This Page service.
posted on June 13, 2008 01:32:19 AM new
On XP: Control Panel>date, time, language and regional options> Regional and language options>Languages>details. There you can select languages for your keyboard to support, I normally have English, United States International, which lets me easily use umlauts, French and Spanish accents. I sometimes switch to Norwegian Bokmal and, very occasionally, Russian.
Edited to add, unlike Google, Ebay's "smart search" is notoriously dumb for not equating words with accented e's with the identical word without the accent, If you want to sell an item to a customer searching in France, I've found it helpful to include both versions in my title.
[ edited by pixiamom on Jun 13, 2008 01:59 AM ]
