Jan 1, 2010 21:02
14 yrs ago
русский term

со студии на меня запросы делали.

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--- Демобилизовался я в декабре 45-го года, и то со студии на меня запросы делали. И 1 января вернулся на студию...

From an interview with someone who started work at a film studio, then volunteered for WWII. After being discharged in December 1945, it sounds like they called him back to army for about a month, after which he was able to rejoin the studio in a real way?

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10 мин
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the studio petitioned the authorities to have me discharged

The meaning of the entire phrase is approximately "I didn't get discharged until December 1945, and even then only due to petitions by the studio." ("и то" means it wouldn't have happened otherwise)

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Note added at 22 hrs (2010-01-02 19:36:48 GMT)
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I'd say there is a causal relationship, partially conveyed by "и то", partially implied by the historical context.

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Note added at 22 hrs (2010-01-02 19:49:00 GMT)
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Keeping in mind how much value was placed on cinema as an important propaganda tool in Stalin's times, a request to have a talented actor discharged from the army could be escalated to the ministerial level and eventually granted.
Note from asker:
So is there causality between his being discharged and the studio requesting that he be discharged? Or is it that the studio had been requesting him already, when he was finally discharged in December?
Peer comment(s):

agree Anna Bordanova (Semyonova)
24 мин
Спасибо, Аня!
agree danya
12 час
Спасибо!
agree Radwan Rahman
13 час
Thank you, Radwan
agree Olga Cartlidge : or had to apply for permission to let me go.
16 час
Спасибо, Ольга!
agree Judith Hehir : or possibly: and only after pressure from the studio for my release
22 час
Thank you, Judith
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9 мин

...and studio management requested scanning ref/recomendation letter (from the army)

I guess.

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Note added at 23 mins (2010-01-01 21:26:00 GMT)
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He complains:"и то " - "even then" -even in these circumstances when he came back (and was employed the next day-?), I guess, that is about some short period of time he is not happy with, he was checked too friequently.I think that that which befell him - simply were the rules of the studio - constant staff checking.

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Note added at 16 hrs (2010-01-02 13:13:41 GMT)
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Army is a self-sufficient entity, anything of civilian simply does not interest them, that would be stupid to think that they ever wanted anything on paper received from the world which does not belong to them.Yet, the Army comply with the law and are responsible themselves for providing recomendation letters for the reason of imployment.On the other hand, say, Hollywood, they check their staff continually, from building managers to the last cleaner.Similar cult ( yes, that is a cult and belongs to National culture) as in US, say, is in Israel, where GOOD REPUTATION is valued greater than money. For many it costs, of course. I think, that the boy went panicky because he did not feel that it was just to check and recheck him again and again. He could have a screwy manager and the Army were very relactant to give yet another recomendation.

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Note added at 18 hrs (2010-01-02 15:28:43 GMT)
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imployment - Employment;
valued greater - has a greater value; that is not a mistake but better English
Note from asker:
Happy New Year to you, too!
Peer comment(s):

agree Nick Grekov (X)
17 мин
Thank you!Happy New year!
disagree danya : его очень хотели вернуть, поэтому сразу взяли обратно на работу - это не стыкуется с идеей запроса рекомендаций
12 час
That is YOUR own idea, which cannot be a reason for your rather cheeky diagree.
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