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Confidently Bolsheviks expect that sooner or later all nations will join the Soviet Union as constituent republics. About 15,000 delegates, they estimate, will gather in Moscow from the ends of the earth to legislate in the Palace of the Soviets. Last week the palace site was cleared.
Expert Red wreckers had placed dozens of small liquid air cartridges in the towering granite walls of Moscow's largest church, the Cathedral of the Christ Redeemer (capacity, 10,000 worshippers), a towering edifice with five domes dominating the Moscow skyline.
Boom! and Boom!—thundered cartridge after cartridge. But a whole day of blasting left still standing two towers...
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