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‘Friendship of the peoples’ – one of many Soviet myths waiting to be debunked, Mirovich says

Myths about the Soviet past continue to circulate and even to grow, Maxim Mirovich says; but they are precisely that – myths – that have little basis in reality and mean that Russians today are inclined to think that the past was better than the present in small ways and large. The Belarusian commentator lists seven such myths and then explains why each is false and is not worthy of being…