Word: gorinka
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...also something of a stickler for patriotic traditions. On a wall in one room of his Gorinka estate, about 25 miles outside of Moscow, hangs a pink marble plaque which reads: "Emperor Alexander I, the Blessed Czar of all the Russias, danced in this room after having defeated the armies of Bonaparte in the Patriotic War." When his second wife tried to rip it down, Stalin said: "I'm a Georgian, so I must show great respect for all the relics of Russian history." One Bolshevik relic, the embalmed body of Lenin, is now a fake, says Budu. When...
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