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"After the death of Stalin the town was renamed Grazhdansk. But this name didn’t hold out more than a couple of years: then was the town given the name of Khrushchev himself. For a certain period after the deposal of Khrushchev the town didn’t have any name at all."
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"Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said."
— Gertrude Stein
Literature1874–1946
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