Somehow missed this thread. Huzzah to Yuri!

This really is gold, thank you for sharing. "Not only would indiscriminate attacks on civilians be arguably immoral, she points out, they’d potentially invite other countries to do the same, or worse."

Well, Chekhov fits well between Dostoyevsky and Saltykov-Shchedrin.

Can't quite access the link, so here it is: the link

"Who is laughing now?" - mice, probably.

There are already good advices here - but I would like to suggest something that seems obvious, but might still be overlooked: consider several most likely questions your professor will ask, and prepare answers for them.

This is funny, because it is true. But also sad, for exact same reason.

A number of good ones is already mentioned, but one is oddly missing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_from_Prostokvashino There are 3 soviet movies, and one post-Soviet. Ignore the latter. Obligatory animal characters included.

An important and often overlooked part of the tragedies of WWII period.

Word (portmanteau) chosen to be denote "Soviets State" is also a derisive one, typically used by those hostile to it. (Perhaps not unlike CPC vs CCP nowadays)

Or, rather, shares a name with (est. 1856).

To be fair, the video was posted before 24th June.