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"They walked our preschool class to the monument to the heroic Young Pioneer Marat Kazei. 'Look, children,' our teacher said. 'This young hero blew himself up with a hand grenade and took a whole lot of fascists down with him. When you grow up, you have to be just like him.' You mean we have to blow ourselves up with grenades? That night, I wept bitterly: I would have to die and lie somewhere all alone, without my.."

I just remembered that Nemtsov was murdered and that makes this history all the sadder to read

There really was a country on earth whose inhabitants were trained to be afraid of their own thoughts

Chile's got a crazy history

this is amazingly better than I remembered 10 years ago

such a slog

boy is he long-winded

I miss the Obamas so much 😭