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March draws to a close, 63 days remain until summer. Let us recall together the most interesting pieces on the channel over the past month: 📌 A photo chronicle of Moscow in the pictures of an American spy. Unique colour shots of the capital in the 1950s. 📌 Plywood night bombers against
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A reminder: in certain countries, which we shall not name, Christmas markets may now be called merely "festive" ones, and as for the crucifix vanishing from images of churches, we know about that not by hearsay alone
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Finnish literature is too white!!! Europe. Chronicles of Replacement
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This painting by Norman Rockwell looks as though he were depicting a builder of communism as the builders saw themselves. But no: the work of 1951 is called “The Spirit of Kansas City”. An aeroplane flies calmly through the sky, while a man stands confidently on the ground. Legs planted
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The International has ordained that the European revolution shall begin in Russia. And begin it will... For we have no reliable defence against it, either in the government or in society. The revolt will begin with atheism and the plundering of all wealth. They will start by deposing religion, demolishing
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Among today's news, besides the session of the Council for Culture and the Arts, there is a very pleasant message from the Tretyakov Gallery for Culture Worker's Day: to keep the creator alive within oneself, and to remember that culture workers turn routine into a work
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Regarding the girls who slipped into the Hermitage for a commercial shoot, avoiding the official fee for this kind of use of museum spaces, the following must be understood. No one's private commercial interests should be placed on the opposite pan of the scales from good order in
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The American writer Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932) was classed as an octoroon, by virtue of the peculiar "one-drop rule". Octoroon (or octaroon) is a racial term adopted in the United States for persons with one-eighth African blood, that is, 12%, as in the case of Alexander