Word: yaroslavl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Body to Science. Everywhere Custine went-St. Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhni Novgorod, Yaroslavl-he found terror and its agent, the secret police. For fear of them and their informers, the Russians had become a nation of liars: "A sincere man . . . would pass for mad." For hatred of them, that could not be expressed, the Russians had become a society of mockers: "The slave . . . consoles himself for his yoke by quietly making fun of it." From the highest noble to the lowest serf, all Russians were equally in fear of the regime's power; all human life was equally worthless...