The very mention of their names was taboo under the Soviets, but they were secretly idolized by Russian nationalists. Alexander Armonk, NY: M. Hence, the oprichnina had never gone away under Ivan, only changing its name from the oprichnina to the dvor court. The method is all the more insidious: The brutal banning of my book by a ministerial order, or on the suggestion of an ethnic organization, would perhaps have provoked tens of thousands of indignant reactions, and at a minimum would have signaled my existence. By: Martin von Koppenfels.
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