Marina Chestnykh oversees an erotica collection assembled by the Communist government that has been a secret for most of the time it\’s been kept. They say such a tight secret that no one knows exactly what is among the approximately 11,000 books, postcards, prints, brochures, drawings and other objects. It\’s on display in the the State Library, formerly the Lenin State LibraryState Library, formerly the Lenin State Library.
\”All these books brought to the Soviet Union could survive only here, in the library,\” said Ms. Ryzhak, who began working in special sections in 1976. \”Anywhere else they would have been burned immediately. We were able to save them, and they are part of our Russian history that we can now have back.\”
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