Bolshevik words

The no longer immediate, from the Harold A. Fleming Papers, New York Public Library:

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The freshly significant, retaught to us by Photoshop:

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A. A. Radakov (1920), “The illiterate is as a blind man. Failure and unhappiness await him everywhere.” https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4051-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
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S. Ivanov (1920), “Reading is one of the obligations of a man.” https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-401e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99