(Hopefully, the cadet Bigler will like.)... Not so long ago, my nephew went to the Eastern Front as a soldier, then as a soldier of the American army in the glorious Afghan city of Kandahar... (Later from the words of his sister - his mother, who visited his homeland in Russia.) They needed to travel somewhere, but whether the way went through the bustling eastern bazar, or something else, but the street was heavily strained with local trucks, aborigines and cars, not paying attention to the "brass" with intervenants and, accordingly, with great reluctance giving them the way. horrendous screams like "Get ap!..." and so on did not help. And then the nephew suddenly remembered the words of his uncle (brother of my cousin, in the 80s also was in this city as part of another, Russian army) about the fact that the local population understands Russian and, taking a loudspeaker, demanded the Russian mother to release the trip... Of course, the Americans knew that among the native Afghans Russian was popular, but not to the same extent! The road was immediately liberated. The soldiers liked this arrangement and began to periodically sign their nephew for this matter.
However, he does not always have the opportunity to make them company, so he did it easier. I recorded everything on the magnetophone, and in the intervals between the phrases I inserted a Russian song... On the question to my sister, what? She replied that, of course, “Rise up, the country is huge!”... The local people like the melody, and another Russian lyric is somehow not very popular with them...