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Is it true that Pavlik Morozov was a scammer?

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Is it true that in Soviet times at VDNH they demonstrated the current nuclear reactor?

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Is it true that the author of the phrase “wanted how better, but it turned out as always” - Victor Chernomyrdin?

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Is it true that Henry Kissinger called the collapse of the USSR “the greatest crime of America”?

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

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Is it true that Russia never waged offensive wars?

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Is it true that Vladimir Lenin created Ukrainian statehood?

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Is it true that Malevich’s “black square” sagged in the Tretyakov Gallery for many years?

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Is it true that the expression “keep in the hedgehog mittens” is associated with the head of the NKVD Ezhov?

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Is it true that the herds of the village under the fur coat symbolizes the proletariat, the peasantry and the Bolsheviks?

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Did Trotsky say: “We must turn Russia into a desert inhabited by white blacks”?

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Did Anna Akhmatova say that under Stalin “half the country was sitting, half the country planted”?

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