1934. Mikhail Zhvanetsky was born

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80 years ago, March 6, 1934, Mikhail Mikhailovich Zhvanetsky, a writer and pop satirist was born. In 1963, during a tour in Odessa of the Leningrad Theater, Miniatures met Arkady Raikin, who took his works to the theater’s repertoire, and in 1964 he invited him to his theater as the head of the literary part. Zhvanetsky is the author of many aphorisms. One of them says: "The history of Russia is the struggle of ignorance with injustice."