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Dr. Imre Kovacs, center, pastor of the First Magyar Reformed Church, addresses a group of some 200 Hungarian sympathizers outside the Soviet Union's United Nations embassy, 68th Street and Park Avenue, on May 4, 1957. The group picketed for two hours without incident, in contrast to their demonstration on April 27, which resulted in the arrest of two picketers. Some of the May 4 pickets carried black flags and black cloth-draped Hungarian flags in mourning for Hungarians killed in November, when a revolt in Hungary was suppressed by the Russians.

Photo: John Lent for the AP

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Paranoia is born of propaganda, ignorance, secrecy and fear. The KGB's London station in 1982 was one of the most profoundly paranoid places on earth, an organization imbued with a siege mentality largely based on fantasy. Since the KGB devoted enormous time and effort to spying on foreign diplomats in Moscow, it assumed MI5 and MI6 must be doing the same in London. In reality, although the Security Service certainly monitored and shadowed suspected KGB operatives, the surveillance was nothing like as intensive as the Russians imagined. The KGB, however, was convinced that the entire Soviet embassy was the target of a gigantic and sustained eavesdropping campaign, and the fact that this snooping was invisible confirmed that the British must be very good at it.

Ben Macintyre, The Spy and the Traitor

POSTCARDS FROM CUBA: the ugliest building in havana

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The Russian Embassy is the ugliest building in Havana. Cinder, who’s got a highly developed sense of architectural aesthetic, is appalled.

Cinder: “Like… they worked really, really, really hard to make it ugly. I mean… could they have made it any uglier?”

We study it for a while.

Jane: “No, I think if that was their goal, they nailed it.”

The second, third and fourth ugliest buildings in…

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