Soviet Union National Rugby Union Team
The USSR national rugby union team was a sporting side that represented the Soviet Union in rugby union until the early 1990s.
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“Today he plays jazz; tomorrow he betrays his country.”
—Stalinist slogan in the Soviet Union (1920s)
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—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)