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Written by Time Magazine
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Monday, 17 January 2000 11:00 |
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Two Heads, Two Faces, "I have found the source of all our troubles," wrote Russian poet Vasili Kurochkin in 1857. "This is our double-headed Russian Eagle." Kurochkin saw the double head of the national emblem as the symbol of "the murderers ... and thieves" who ruled his country. "There is no truth or order in the Russian world, because it has four eyes, but they see nothing," he wrote sadly. "
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