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Artists who camped together in USSR old days reunited

THEY were a handful of Russians in their 50s, these children of the old intelligentsia who gathered from around Europe this summer in a birch forest 100 miles south of Moscow for something somewhat surprising: a joyous journey back into their Soviet past.
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