Russian writer and Nobel prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn looks out from a train, in Vladivostok, summer 1994, before departing on a journey across Russia. Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after nearly 20 years in exile.
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Photo of Arkhip Kuindzhi’s residence, Saint Petersburg, Russia
House #16 on Malyj Prospect, Vasilyevsky Island. Unknown photographer, photo taken before 1913.

Throwback Thursday: Ronald Reagan tells jokes about Russia.
Here’s a montage of an American president — and a Republican — making jokes at the expense of the Soviet Union. The one about the three dogs is my favorite.
The Republican Party was a different organization in the 1980’s, ladies and gentlemen. It was a different time.

