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Is it true that “Quiet Don” was not written by Sholokhov?

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Is the selection of works of literature and cinema that were supposedly in Ukrainian in the original true?

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Is it true that Hitler considered Levitan his personal enemy number one?

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Is it true that Pavlik Morozov was an informer?

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Is it true that in Soviet times a working nuclear reactor was demonstrated at VDNKh?

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Is it true that the author of the phrase “We wanted the best, but it turned out as always” is Viktor Chernomyrdin?

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Is it true that Henry Kissinger called the collapse of the USSR America's greatest crime?

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Did the UN Secretary General say that Ukraine does not exist as a state?

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Is it true that Russia has never waged offensive wars?

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Is it true that Ukrainian statehood was created by Vladimir Lenin?

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Is it true that Malevich’s “Black Square” hung upside down in the Tretyakov Gallery for many years?

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Is it true that the expression “keep a tight rein” is associated with the head of the NKVD Yezhov?

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