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Behind The Iron Curtain:Constitution Day Posters

I really don’t have much to say about the Constitution Day which was celebrated i the USSR on October 7th, it was just another day off. While fake celebrations died down shortly after its adoption in 1977, the day off was observed all the way through the end of the USSR (and maybe after, I [...]

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Behind The Iron Curtain: The First Day of School

A weird side-effect of getting older is an ability to throw around time spans that used to seem like an eternity not so long ago. It’s hard to believe that thirty three years ago on this day I was standing in my brand new school uniform clutching a bouquet of flowers almost as tall as [...]