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In the BBC series ‘Peaky Blinders’, the characters from Russian nobility are shown to have wild and crazy, sex and alcohol fuelled parties. They do this in the open and it’s implied to be normal in that culture. What truth is there to this? Where they really so open and sexually free?

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In the BBC series ‘Peaky Blinders’, the characters from Russian nobility are shown to have wild and crazy, sex and alcohol fuelled parties. They do this in the open and it’s implied to be normal in that culture. What truth is there to this? Where they really so open and sexually free?	1533