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'Harry Potter' Twitter Meme Lord Voldemort Tweets to Live On Perestroika is a bad word in Putin’s rewrite of history, but his efforts to discredit the pop heroes of those heady days may wind up discrediting him. For three decades, generations of “Kinomans,” or fans of the St. Petersburg rock band Kino, dressed in black, rolled up their sleeves and played guitars wishing to look and sound as brave, open-minded and honest as Viktor Tsoi, the band’s leader and an idol of Perestroika. But now, in a Russia where history once again is being rewritten Soviet style, we are hearing reports that unidentified former KGB agents and members of the ruling United Russia party claim it wasn’t Tsoi himself writing his lyrics back in the 1980s. Tsoi’s fans are mostly bemused. United Russia parliament member Sergei Fyodorov sees the upheaval of vast economic restructuring and growing personal freedoms that came under the rubric Perestroika as a Western plot. “Hypocrites and liars, they are doing everything to make people hate them.”

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