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The United States of America have normally been in friendly relations with Russia. Under the old regime there was one great disturbing factor, Russian's treatment of her minor nationalities, which were strongly represented in America, and especially of her Jewish population, kept under by almost impossibly oppressive legislation; but nowhere has the new regime been more happy than in its complete solution of this question of nationalities. All of them are now, both in principle and in practice, equal in rights and responsibilities, and this solution was peculiarly the work of Stalin himself, at first as Commissar for the Minor Nationalities, and later as the drafter of the new federal constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Bernard Pares, "Russia"
p. 237

Fay Wray died

I remember seeing her in Castro theater in SF when they were showing The Wedding March. I could not believe how good her memory was. That was living history in a very small package.