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[quote=CARLOS,356273]This was very common among late Soviet officials. I visited Leningrad (St Petersburg nowadays) two times 1979. Both times we had a guide who everlastingly glorified the acchievements of the Russian people and Lenin and Stalin and their voices were almost in falsetto then. We could not choose guides, they were placed by Intourist, some kind of Russian tourist organization. Funny thing was that those magnifient buildings and parks were build far before Soviet time and the communist party had nothing to do with them. Either the guides did not know it or they thought we didn´t.
Same time the news were full of reports of great Russian this and even greater Russian that. Well, we all know what happened when Soviet Union collapsed.

Seems like there will always be some officials, some in higher position, some in lower, saying things that has nothing to do with the trueth. What they get from it, beats me. 
One thing in common with these people is that they live in more or less closed community where giving people sencored and modified trueth is a tradition.

Carlos

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