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In the early years of the Soviet Union, many believed that
architecture could function as a tool of social transformation.  It was
a time when architecture--and the ideas it expressed--still felt
dangerous.
		-- Nicolai Ouroussoff, "Russian Icons"
		   http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/magazine/15MOSCOW.html

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