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How heavy was resistance to de-Stalinization by the Russian people? Did they just go along with it, feel betrayed, or mount some form of resistance to maintain the cult of personality around Stalin?	4
How did European people react to New World foods that were imported over the first 50 years of their importation?	4
How was life for Armenians compared to the other Soviet Republics while in the USSR?	4
Did the prominence/reach or influence of the Chinese-American Mafia ever match or rival that of the Italian-American Mafia. Are they systemically overlooked in the discussions of historical organized crime in the US when compared to other mafia/gang organizations?	3
(Repost) I’m a citizen of the Greek island of Samos in the 6th century B.C. and want to join Pythagoras’ religious commune. How do I join, what’s my daily life like once in, and how am I viewed by citizens not in it?	3
Was there at all substantial influence of Asian and Middle Eastern music on European classical music of those such as Beethoven, Bach, Motzart, etc., that isn’t commonly known or acknowledged?	3
Other of messianic preachers in Judea other than Jesus?	3
What was the educational, life and career path for someone to become a Cosmonaut in the Soviet Union?	3
The bakery of Thomas Farriner is attributed as the source of the Great Fire of London in 1666. What was life like for him and his family in the city afterward?	3
When monotheistic religions started to spread, did the presence of single-god worshipers in society alter the perception of polytheistic worship by polytheists themselves? Did it change how they objectively viewed their gods (e.g. did they begin to categorize/rank the supremacy of their gods)?	3

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