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Friday, November 12, 2021

An international quartet

 During a town's May Day celebrations, the local party chairman announces that an international string quartet will play.

"The quartet represents people from all corners of the Union living in friendship:

Comrade Filippenko shall represent Ukraine,

Comrade Burkhanov shall represent Uzbekistan,

Comrade Krikorian shall represent Armenia,

and Comrade Rosenbaum shall be playing violin."

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