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:: NOMINAL VALUE: 17 RUB :: ISSUE DATE: 28 May 2015
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Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony {Morpheus/Matrix} or the mental institutions in Soviet Union were that good?
In 1963, Brodsky's poetry was denounced by a Leningrad newspaper as "pornographic and anti-Soviet". His papers were confiscated, he was interrogated, twice put in a mental institution and then arrested.
In 1987, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity".
Лауреат Нобелевской премии И.А. Бродский (1940-1996)
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