Posted on 12/10/2009 3:25:32 AM PST by Scanian
The wide sidewalk in front of that majestic building was occupied, on both sides, by stacks of books, leaving just a narrow path for numerous visitors, obviously interested in literature. Not any literature, but ultra-nationalist, chauvinistic one, and, particularly, the most popular brand of it - the anti-Semitic writings.
From 1994 to 2003, whenever I found myself in the capital of my former homeland, Moscow, I used to come without fail to that place in order to replenish my library of paperback and hardcover books, devoted to elaborate and multifaceted Jew-hating. This marketplace of bigotry and hatred (which, by the way, didn't attract even the slightest police attention) was located in downtown, in front of an institution, whose name sounded lofty, dignified, and even noble - The Moscow Museum of History.
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I didn't know that. The above tidbit is from one the letters in the comment section.
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