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Is it true that the longest speech at the UN was given by Fidel Castro?

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

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Is it true that St. Patrick exterminated the pygmies in Ireland, who became the prototype of leprechauns?

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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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Did Niccolò Machiavelli say: “The end justifies the means”?

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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 when Reagan first met Gorbachev, he claims to have thought, “He’ll sell us everything”?

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

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Is it true that Alexei Navalny’s grandfather collaborated with the Germans during the war?

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Is it true that the heroine of the Patriotic War of 1812, Vasilisa Kozhina, is a fictional person?

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Is it true that Vikings wore helmets with horns?

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