We watched LoB last night, she laughed a bit and commented that the movie would have likely been funnier in 1980.
Inna was born in the Soviet Union (Ukraine), saw the Chernobyl explosion happen, and moved to Biskek, Kyrgyzstan right before the USSR ceased to exist. Her understanding of history is very different from the West’s as Soviet history didn’t teach the Sumerian (Euphrates civilizations)-Hebrew-Greek-Roman-W Europe timeline that we are used to. For example, she had never heard of Alexander the Great until he started appearing in all these trivia videos we’ve been watching on YouTube in the past year, and why would she, given that Soviet history was focused on the development of the Russian people, meaning that… for her and hundreds of millions of people… ancient history began with the Vikings. She knows all about Byzantium, a bit of the Roman Empire (but, again, not the detailed view that a college educated Westerner would know), but, again, the general history of the West… including the existence of a 1970s British comedy troupe… is unknown to her.
Oh, and she came to the US in 2008, so ‘recently’ by some measures, yes.