Following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, the Soviet Union entered a period known as the Khrushchev Thaw, marked by limited political and cultural liberalization. The shift allowed writers, ...

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The museum had preserved the history of brutality inflicted by the Soviet Union on its people. It will now focus on Nazi war crimes.

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