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= July 29 =

Classical music from a Chinese commercial
Can anyone identify the music starting from 0:13 (https://v.qq.com/x/page/f0379u1puap.html)? It sounds like from a classical composer. --2001:16B8:318B:D200:C997:CB1E:842C:80E3 (talk) 01:51, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
 * That won't play on my PC. It wants to do some sort of "upgrade" - in Chinese, yet. No thank you. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:02, 29 July 2021 (UTC)


 * It's Felix Mendelssohn's "On Wings of Song". --  Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  07:17, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Dialog doubt from Black Widow (2021 film)
Red Guardian speaks about Dreykov:

Red Guardian: Then puts me in prison for the rest of my life. Why, huh? Why? Why would he put me in...You know why? 'Cause maybe I want to talk about the withering of the state.

What does "withering of the state" mean? Rizosome (talk) 08:14, 29 July 2021 (UTC)


 * I haven't seen the movie yet, but the name "Red Guardian" suggests that he means the withering away of the state. Clarityfiend (talk) 09:08, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Or how much worse things are since the fall of the Soviet Union. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 06:50, 3 August 2021 (UTC)