A Boy Spells Out the Word “Stalin” with Building Blocks

A porcelain figurine from the Kyiv factory. Model of 1952. Theme: “Happy Childhood”.
Designed by Svetlana Golembovskaya.

Overglaze hand painting, gilding, loveliness...

But you know, it is all so strange. Why should a child know the name of the head of state at all, why bring his image into his games, what business has a little one with a moustachioed old man in a military uniform? It is unhealthy. Such innocent years, and already the brains have been washed. What is happy about this childhood?

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

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A Boy Spells Out the Word “Stalin” with Building Blocks

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

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Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s