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MOSCOW — There is a lot about Red Square these days that would make Khrushchev squirm

Henrik Gøtke,

12/05/2010

MOSCOW — There is a lot about Red Square these days that would make Khrushchev squirm. Three-hundred-dollar Italian negligees pool in the windows of the State Department Store, that showcase of proletarian output; a 20-foot Mercedes-Benz symbol glints on the skyline across the Moscow River.