Letter to Brezhnev (1985)

Peter Firth: Peter

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• Peter : You vwork?

  Elaine : No. I wish I did... but there is a bit of a work problem in England at the moment.

  Peter : You know, in Soviet Union if you don't work you don't eat.

  Elaine : It's a bit like that here as well.

• Elaine : How long are you in Liverpool for?

  Peter : Ah, for just one day. Tomorrow - to Scotland, and after, home. To Soviet Union.

• Elaine : What about all the food shortages?

  Peter : There are no food shortages.

  Elaine : But we read about it all the time in the papers about how you have to queue to buy food and all that.

  Peter : We read the same about you. Queues are not caused by shortages, queues are forming because the person in charge of distribution is a cretin.

• Peter : Hey, do you see that star?

  Elaine : Which one? That big one just there?

  Peter : Yea. The brightest one in the sky. It reminds me of my home. Every night from my bed, I look through my window and see it shining in the sky. And when I am away from Soviet Union, I look to the star and it makes me feel at home.

  Elaine : Well, from now on, every time I see that star, it'll remind me of you.

• Elaine : I'd love to go to Russia. Where're you from? Moscow?

  Peter : No. I'm from the south. It's a very small town, on the Black Sea.

  Elaine : What's it like there? Is it nice?

  Peter : Very beautiful. You know, people from all over Soviet Union go there in summer for... beach.

• Peter : [to Elaine]  The only real shortage in Soviet Union is that of beutiful girls... like you.