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Is it true that there was a monument to Judas Iscariot in the USSR?

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Is it true that Stalin banned the installation of telephones in the USSR, calling it a tool of counter-revolution?

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Did Georgy Zhukov say: “Don’t spare the soldiers, the women are still giving birth”?

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Is it true that at a reception with the Queen of England, Gagarin ate a lemon in violation of etiquette?

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Is it true that in the 19th century a Russian peasant was exiled to the village of Baikonur for talking about flying to the moon?

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Did Stalin say: “No man, no problem”?

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Is it true that George Bush considered the loss of Ukraine a good thing for the Russians, and called Jimmy Carter a “village fool”?

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Did Stalin say: “The son is not responsible for his father”?

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Is it true that Georgy Gapon was an agent provocateur of the Tsarist secret police?

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Did Peter I issue a decree that a subordinate should look dashing and stupid in front of his superiors?

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Is it true that a recording of the voice of Emperor Alexander III was discovered in Denmark?

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Is it true that in 1952 a separate Olympic village was built for the Soviet delegation?

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