Video subtitles: Hidden Rooms In Moscow's Soviet Hotel
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welcome to the last Soviet hotel
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the other day as I was driving through
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Moscow I passed this huge Soviet
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monolith of a building on top is a
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hammer and sickle and the words Hotel
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Soviets and so I've come I've checked in
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and let me give you a little tour the
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last Soviet Hotel in Russia listeria
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check this place out
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this place is like a museum more than it
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is a hotel now the first thing I want to
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do is to show you some of the famous
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guests that have stayed at the hotel
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Soviet some of the great and the good of
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the world
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check these people out the guests
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gallery we've had all the greats Nicolae
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Ceausescu he was a nice guy
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Margaret Thatcher lovely
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it was worse Margaret Thatcher shouts
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yes sir I'm not sure we have here a very
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famous Russian singer Alec will get Java
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Vasily Stalin that Stalin son used to
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hang out here on the weekends and I
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think what I consider the greatest guest
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of all this guy no not Chris de Burgh
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Chuck Norris the hitchhike if this hotel
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is good enough for Chuck Norris it's
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good enough for me so just think of the
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guests who have walked along these
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corridors in the past all kinds of mass
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murderers and killers war criminals
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the hotel was created in the early 50s
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as one of the best hotels in Moscow for
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visiting dignitaries now I never went to
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this last night but downstairs we have a
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Soviet nightclub I'd love to have gone
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to the Soviet nightclub and bar but I
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didn't I was too tired all right let's
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jump in the Soviet lift how many times
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can i say soviet today let's go into the
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soviet lift
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after an explorer please while we're in
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a lift or tell you I paid 65 pounds for
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the night at the Soviet Hotel the last
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Soviet Hotel is check out this floor see
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what interesting things we can discover
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anything some people digs in the Soviet
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lift the Soviet lift is broken down we
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have some nice pictures on the wall here
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of old
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Papa Joe there is do you recognize that
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guy Yosef Stalin in this picture he
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seems to have a really nice complexion
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but in real life he was embarrassed by
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his complexion because he had a very
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ruddy
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potted face here we have who I believe
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is marshal Zhukov the defender of Moscow
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against the Germans the defender of
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Moscow and defender of Russia I suppose
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and here we have a guy with the bushy
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eyebrows Leonard Brezhnev they call
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those medals every year Brezhnev used
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like to give himself a new few medals
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although he did nothing to deserve them
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so that's why he had a whole row of
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medals he gave himself medals for walls
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in every important so just imagine the
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people who are walking here Margaret
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Thatcher Chelsea sq and all being spied
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on though doubt I expect that behind
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these mirrors there's a little room a
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room with like 2-way cameras and stuff
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like that where they could spy on the
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guests and know their who was sleeping
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with who get some information that you
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could blackmail you with later there's a
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Soviet corridor a it's pretty quiet this
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hotel Soviet we should we go next
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oh look I see says here staff only let's
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be naughty
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uh-uh secret staircase let's take the
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secret staircase
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where does it lead who knows
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we're breaking rules the hotel Soviet
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hope I don't end up like Otto Weinberg
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in North Korea we're back on the floor
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below all right
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yeah so all these rooms all these rooms
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in the past I imagine would have been
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bugged there would be people there
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would've been a room somewhere with
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cameras and stuff and microphones
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listening to these guests because if
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Chesky was staying here and people like
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Margaret Thatcher and whoever other
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leaders whichever other leaders of
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countries they would have wanted to get
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that information from them so would have
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put them into this Soviet hotel where
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they knew they could have been make you
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listen to things kept an eye on them
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that's what went down at the hotel
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Soviet did I show you Khrushchev before
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that Khrushchev
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I swear Stalin used to stay drive use
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had some there's probably not hotel in
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the world that has had as many
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influential guests as the hotel Soviets
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even Chris de Burgh Wow
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or should I say except Chris de Burgh
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lady in red right welcome to the room in
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the hotel Soviets key check it out it's
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not a bad room right
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I mean they could have gone more Soviet
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with the TV they've put an LG in there
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bit of a modern fridge they should have
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had a big old noisy Soviet fridge and
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I'm not sure they had Soviet if they had
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air-conditioning in a Soviet Union but a
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nice window to let the breeze in because
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Moscow is about thirty degrees at this
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time of year it's nasty a nice
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comfortable bed I can attest I slept
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very well in it not Soviet bit I imagine
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Soviet beds are pretty hard and here's
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the Soviet bathroom but piece there is
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he stops this is where you can have your
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Soviet poo your Soviet shave and your
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Soviet shower if that's what you want to
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do
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remember what I was saying before about
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secret places and cameras and stuff
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we'll check this out look here there's a
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mirror here at the end of the corridor
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and opens and behind is a room you see
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you never know what you discovered the
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hotel soviet secret soviet rooms hidden
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behind mirrors
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I want to show you down here what's down
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here
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this some old Soviet restaurants the bar
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and star first if we can and if we can
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have a look it's pretty magnificent this
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see if they let us in just have a little
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look
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but I said motion plus motive it's
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positive emotion check this out this is
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the Soviet bar a Soviet bar also imagine
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the flirting that when I'm here with the
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Soviet publish gives in the past I've
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added some right hotties here look how
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beautiful is this is it and here in the
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other room is the Soviet dining hall so
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imagine the parties that we're not here
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try to check this out this is the
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hotel's dining room where directed to
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that here they would have had Soviet
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bands playing I'm trying to think he was
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a famous Soviet band I don't know they
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must have had an equivalent the Beatles
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but no doubt they played in here making
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a ceiling that's the interesting thing
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about coming to these Soviet places
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cracky how many times I said Soviet
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today he's an you can imagine the life
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that went on before in them you know
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this huge experiment was done behind
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closed doors the Soviet Union they
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weren't allowed out and we weren't
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allowed in
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I suppose they had lies much like us
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people picking each other up at the bar
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take him up to the room maybe some hard
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currency ladies of the nights were
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working here alright let's um let's go
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and have a little shot of vodka to end
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the tour of the hotel Soviet oh actually
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there's a Soviet toilet FC were Soviet
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told it looks like he's locked it's
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locked
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we'll never know the great mystery we'll
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have to come back and do a second video
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one day just to film inside the Soviet
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toilet
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welcome to the hotel of a serviette ski
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anytime a place yeah there's a Soviet
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lady
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hello Soviet lady are you enjoying your
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stay at the hotel Soviet yeah me too
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well no wild Swan or wild hunt what what
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is it
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wow it's strong all right listen that's
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enough from the hotel so the unpopular
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Robin our way to you we're not waiting
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for her
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this is it goodbye from the hotel Soviet
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it's been emotional hope you enjoyed it
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this on booking.com by the way so if you
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want to cook a night here is on brooklyn
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calm you can be alright so many more
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adventures and soviet hotels across
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russia hopefully love you how fifty
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grams is a big shot of vodka i didn't
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realize
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Wow all right goodbye from the hotel
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Soviet scheme does we dunya
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