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A statue of the Russian revolutionary leader Lenin in the village of Naryn, Kyrgyzstan. When communism and the Soviet Union ...

Born in Russia (in what is now Belarus), Nadia (1904-1982) studied under Kazimir Malevich before moving to Poland. One of her ...