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“Men stay silent in Russia, but the stones speak, in pitiful accents. No wonder the Russians fear and neglect their old buildings, for these bear witness to the history that they would prefer, more often than not, to forget.”

~Marquis De Custine, almost 200 years ago https://t.co/1FOseJGeu4