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Nina Andreeva’s “I Cannot Forsake My Principles”

Published in the 13 March 1988 issue of the daily newspaper “Sovetskaia Rossiia” (Soviet Russia), this letter by chemistry lecturer and Stalinist apologist Nina Andreeva (1938-2020) sparked tens of thousands of public responses, revealing that conservative currents in the Communist Party and beyond now faced strong resistance from a glasnost-empowered public.

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Soviet Homosexuals: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

A 1991 essay by Gennady Trifonov, a gay former Soviet inmate, published in the journal Gay, slaviane (a pun on the exclamation Gei, slaviane!—“Hey, Slavs!”) in 1993.

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"Brother! Protect Yourself from AIDS!"

A public service announcement on AIDS prevention published in a 1993 issue of the gay magazine Impulse.

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Love is Cruel, It Can Make You Fall for An Asshole

A mean-spirited Pravda piece from 16 April 1994 about Slava Mogutin’s attempt, four days earlier, to register marriage to his partner, Robert Filippini.

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A Conservative Revolutionary Avant-Garde

“The New against the Old,” a programmatic article by Aleksandr Dugin from the first issue of Limonka, the official newspaper of Eduard Limonov’s National Bolshevik Party (NBP), radical political organization/countercultural movement.

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"An Armed Paradise"

An article by Aleksey Tsvetkov, anarchist writer and associate director of "Limonka" who temporarily turned the newspaper to a postmodern art project of sorts.

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