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Communist Calendar (excerpt)
Proletarian revolution shall prevail and America and England shall become proletarian countries, we were told behind the Iron Curtain. We hoped Americans and Englishmen knew better. By the age of...
View ArticleGorky Park, Moscow
…The wind of change Blows straight into the face of time Like a stormwind that will ring the freedom bell For peace of mind Let your balalaika sing What my guitar wants to say Take me to the magic of...
View ArticleYou can’t get Russia with your mind
Some century and a half ago Fyodor Tyutchev, one of the greatest poets of Russian Romanticism wrote a quatrain that with time became proverbial: You cannot grasp Russia with your mind Or judge her by...
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