1. There is a very popular Jewish crooner in Russia named Iosif Kobzon (here he is singing about himself in his relatively younger days on Soviet TV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mycdkvnrkys ). The government of Uzbekistan has refused to allow him to sing on the grounds that it would remind people of the "socialist past."
2. One of the big Moscow department store chains currently has an ad campaign that toutes THE GREAT OCTOBER REVOLUTION -- OF PRICES!
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