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During the 1950s when kids in the U.S. were learning "duck and cover" and Cold War paranoia was extremely prevalent among Americans, were average citizens and children in the U.S.S.R. experiencing the same mass anxiety about nuclear annihilation?

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Is there any record of someone butchering one of their limbs for food to survive?

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Has there ever been an [oligarchy](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/oligarchy) that was not a [plutocracy](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plutocracy), and if not why do we have the two different terms?

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During the 1950s when kids in the U.S. were learning "duck and cover" and Cold War paranoia was extremely prevalent among Americans, were average citizens and children in the U.S.S.R. experiencing the same mass anxiety about nuclear annihilation?	1522
Is there any record of someone butchering one of their limbs for food to survive?	3
Has there ever been an [oligarchy](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/oligarchy) that was not a [plutocracy](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plutocracy), and if not why do we have the two different terms?	0