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Is it true that the words "faith" and "rope" come from one root?

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Did Stalin say: “When I die, they will apply a lot of garbage to my grave, but the wind will mercilessly sweep it”?

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

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Were there any “cuckoos” snipers in the Finnish army during the Winter War, shooting from specially equipped positions on trees?

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Is it true that in 1941 Lazar Kaganovich ordered the Moscow metro to blow up?

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Is it true that the “protocols of the Zion sages” describe a real Jewish conspiracy to capture the world?

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Is it true that French kings swore allegiance to the gospels from the dowry Anna Yaroslavna?

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Were the fighting of the Red Army against Poland in September 1939 by a “liberation campaign”?

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Did Sergey Lavrov argue that the Mongol-Tatar Ita saved Russia from dissolution in the West?

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Is it true that the expression “little victorious war” was invented by Minister Pleve?

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

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Is it true that Karl Faberge created a “proletarian breakfast”?

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