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Did Kolchak say: “Don’t touch artists, prostitutes and coachmen. They serve any power”?

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Did Tyutchev talk about the “rabid hatred” that was “kindled in the West against Russia”?

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Is it true that Russia has never waged offensive wars?

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Is it true that there is a lifetime sculptural portrait of Ivan the Terrible?

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Is it true that the expression “keep a tight rein” is associated with the head of the NKVD Yezhov?

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Is it true that Dmitry Mendeleev saw his table of periodic elements in a dream?

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Did Peter I issue a decree that “trade in the subsoil of the earth is the primordial business of thieves”?

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Did Trotsky say: “We must turn Russia into a desert inhabited by white blacks”?

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Did Anna Akhmatova say that under Stalin “half the country was imprisoned, half the country was imprisoned”?

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Is it true that the Larousse encyclopedia says that Ivan the Terrible was nicknamed Vasilyevich for his cruelty?

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Is it true that Peter I established a medal “For Drunkenness”?

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Did Stolypin say: “In Russia they like to initiate reforms only because it is easier to hide their inability to rule”?

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