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Is it true that the words “faith” and “rope” come from the same root?

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Did Stalin say: “When I die, a lot of rubbish will be placed on my grave, but the wind of time will mercilessly sweep it away”?

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Is it true that after the revolution the Bolsheviks tried to socialize women?

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During the Winter War, did the Finnish army have “cuckoo” snipers who shot from specially equipped positions in the trees?

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Is it true that in 1941 Lazar Kaganovich ordered the bombing of the Moscow Metro?

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Is it true that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion describe a real Jewish plot to take over the world?

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Is it true that French kings swore oaths on the Gospel from Anna Yaroslavna’s dowry?

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Were the Red Army's military operations against Poland in September 1939 a “liberation campaign”?

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Did Sergei Lavrov claim that the Mongol-Tatar yoke saved Russia from dissolution in the West?

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Is it true that the expression “small victorious war” was coined by Minister Plehve?

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Is it true that Catherine II was the first in the Russian Empire to be vaccinated against smallpox?

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Is it true that Carl Faberge created The Proletarian Breakfast?

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