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[williams2]

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Why is it me who was born sometime in a communist state talking about this ?

For a few years I shared an apartment in St. Pauli, Hamburg with a Russian artist and trained artwork Conservator-Restorer. Alexei lived and went to University in St. Petersburg and he grew up in Murmansk. His father had been First Officer onboard a Soviet nuclear missile submarine. He did lots of work in Hamburg, married a German girl. We are the same age and funny thing, he was in the Soviet Black Sea naval fleet at the exact same time I was a MA-1 mechanic repairing F-106's in the USAF. We had a lot of laughs about we were "enemy's" at one time on paper.

Alexei is the most democratic guy I know. Can fix just about anything and makes a mean Borscht.

[Grey]

He did lots of work in Hamburg, married a German girl.
Can fix just about anything and makes a mean Borscht.

No wonder. A former sailor(although there are no exes) + knows how to cook borscht = any girl in any country will not refuse to marry such a man

By the way, politics even intervened in national cuisines Pay attention to the right side of the screen on the borscht page in English Wikipedia, there is a "place of origin". See what country is there? Russian cuisine comes last. In Russian version of Wikipedia another country is in the first place
Moreover, the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine appealed to UNESCO with a demand to secure the status of Ukrainian cultural heritage for borscht. How do you like this expression in this article - "No doubt, Borscht is in our DNA"

But in fact, no one knows for sure. The authors of the borscht are all East Slavs.