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Attention tinfoil hat people: Are these music-related conspiracies on your radar?If you're the kind of person who sees a conspiracy behind every corner, here are a few more things of a musical nature to feed your paranoia.EntertainmentApr 30, 2023
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Kyiv workers accidentally behead Soviet statue while struggling to remove itA statue of a Russian soldier was accidentally decapitated in Kyiv during attempts to dismantle it, as part of a move to 'decommunize' and 'de-Russify' the Ukrainian capital.WorldApr 26, 2022
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Alan Cross uncovers the great KGB punk rock plot that wasn’t — or was it?Not all wars involve guns and bombs. There are those who believe that back in the 1970s and with the Cold War raging, the USSR used punk rock as a tool to destabilize the West.EntertainmentApr 25, 2021
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Armenia accuses Azerbaijan of shelling historic cathedral amid conflictThe Holy Savior Cathedral, also known as the Ghazanchetsots Cathedral, had its dome pierced by a shell that also damaged the interior.WorldOct 8, 2020
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King of Bombs: Once-secret footage shows largest-ever nuclear explosionThe Soviet Union's Tsar Bomba, or 'King of Bombs,' was 3,800 times more powerful than the first nuke dropped on Hiroshima.TrendingSep 2, 2020
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Strathroy, Ont.’s Pat Stapleton passes away at 79Pat Stapleton was a part of many big games and big moments during the course of his life.SportsApr 10, 2020
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Vladimir Putin says his grandfather worked as a cook for Lenin and StalinPutin’s paternal grandfather worked as a cook for both Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, the president said in a film posted on the internet on Sunday.WorldMar 11, 2018
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Kremlin spokesperson says breakup of USSR was a ‘disaster,’ calls for new integrationVladimir Putin believes the disintegration of the Soviet Union was a "disaster," a Kremlin spokesperson reportedly said Wednesday, while calling for new integration among the countries of the fallen USSR.WorldDec 21, 2016
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‘Holodomor: Voices of Survivors’ documentary teaches Regina high school students about genocide"Holodomor: Voices of Survivors" is a documentary produced and directed by Ariadna Ochrymovych, a Toronto-based filmmaker, that exposes Soviet Union propaganda secrets.CanadaMay 30, 2016
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Back in the U.S.S.R.? Poll suggest half of Russians lament Soviet Union’s collapseA new poll found a majority of Russians wouldn't mind a return to Soviet rule, more than two decades after the collapse of the U.S.S.R.WorldApr 19, 2016
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