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Mother Russia wants you!

Example of some of the communist era artwork found all over the metro station halls
Moscow

January 2nd 2006
С НОЫМ ГОДОМ! Happy New Year in Russian… pronounced: Snobum Godom Temperatue: -5C Snow Cover: 40cm Privet (informal hello in Russian), I am writing this on the eve of mounting the TransSiberian railway. I will be traveling from Moscow to Irkutsk through 5 time zones. This is like going from Vancouver to Halifax and back to Toronto in one train journey with no stop lasting more tha ... read more
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Russian Flag Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more
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