USSR

Is it true that Andrei Stakhanov had to take the name Alexey because of a typo in the Pravda newspaper?

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Is it true that the United States awarded Mikhail Gorbachev the medal “For Victory in the Cold War”?

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Is it true that Salvador Dali performed “The Saber Dance” naked in front of Khachaturian?

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Is it true that Japan bought broken glass from the USSR for wooden boxes?

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Is it true that the Soviet erotic alphabet was drawn by the sculptor Merkurov?

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Did Stalin say: “The death of one person is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic”?

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Is it true that the author of “The Worker and the Collective Farm Woman” invented the cut glass?

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Is it true that the mutiny on the battleship Potemkin occurred because of wormy meat?

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Is it true that the USSR traded warships for Pepsi in the late 1980s?

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Is it true that encephalitis ticks were brought to the Far East by Japanese saboteurs?

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Is it true that the United States promised Gorbachev not to expand NATO to the east?

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Is it true that Lenin called chess mental gymnastics?

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