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Happy New Year!

Odessa, Ukraine. 1973

When I was growing up©, I used to calculate how old I will be in the year 2000. This was my Mayan Calendar of sorts — the year 2000 was so far away and the double-digit age of 31 seemed so unbelievably huge that I didn’t bother to look beyond the year [...]

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Old Photos: Revolution Parade In The Red Square

If you are a long-time follower of this blog, I am sure you already know that today is the day to fly your red flag to celebrate another anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution – a holiday no longer celebrated in Russia where people for some reason blame it for 70 years of crappy [...]