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Russia's history of terrorism

The Naked Pravda

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The Threshold

Vera's a slich's assassination attempt and it just presents the image of the female terrorist as this hero martyr his self sacrificial hero martyr so I'm gonna read all thinking you could edit it or use it any way you want the translation. The poem is called the Threshold and it's a prose poem by Vladimir Nabokov, who was killed in 1981 during an uprising against Russian President Boris Yeltsin. "I need neither gratitude nor pity I do not need a name are you prepared to commit a crime," says one line from the poem.

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