USSR
Is it true that George Bush considered the loss of Ukraine a good thing for the Russians, and called Jimmy Carter a “village fool”?
Is it true that Soviet pasta was made to match the caliber of cartridges?
Is it true that Tarkovsky burned a cow alive during the filming of the film Andrei Rublev?
Did Stalin say: “The son is not responsible for his father”?
Is it true that the drunken Marshal Bulganin forced the generals to kiss the pantaloons of the ballerinas?
Is it true that when Reagan first met Gorbachev, he claims to have thought, “He’ll sell us everything”?
Is it true that in 1952 a separate Olympic village was built for the Soviet delegation?
Is it true that the composition of the painting “Walkers at V. I. Lenin” was borrowed from the work “Meeting at the Rabbi” by the American Tully Filmus?
Is it true that the Novokuznetskaya metro station is decorated with benches from the bombed Cathedral of Christ the Savior?
Is it true that Narodnaya Volya member Nikolai Morozov was the oldest sniper of the Great Patriotic War?
