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Rhiannon12866

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2. When I was in the USSR in the late '80s - with my grandmother's peace group - I remember learning about this

Reply to Botany (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 24, 2025, 01:53 AM

Apr 2025

That an ethnically Russian mother who had five or six children got an award and I believe a stipend. And this was under Gorbachev who was instituting more progressive policies - though the Russian hardliners were pushing back on those policies due to the intense pressure he was getting from then-President Reagan (obviously a Republican).

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When I was in the USSR in the late '80s - with my grandmother's peace group - I remember learning about this Rhiannon12866 Apr 2025 #2

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