Myths about the Soviet past continue to circulate and even to grow, Maksim Mirovich says; but they are precisely that – myths – that have little basis in reality and mean that Russians today are inclined to think that the past was better than the present in small ways and large.
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Mugs decorated with images of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin are seen on sale among other items at a gift shop in Moscow on March 11, 2020.
