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  2. The Idiot - Wikipedia

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    The Idiot (pre-reform Russian: Идіотъ; post-reform Russian: Идиот, romanized: Idiót) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868–1869.

  3. Prince Myshkin - Wikipedia

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    Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin (pre-reform Russian: князь Левъ Николаевичъ Мышкинъ; post-reform Russian: князь Лев Николаевич Мышкин, romanized: knyazʹ Lev Nikoláyevich Mýshkin) is the main protagonist of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1869 novel The Idiot.

  4. Useful idiot - Wikipedia

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    The term useful idiot, for a foolish person whose views can be taken advantage of for political purposes, was used in a British periodical as early as 1864. [3] In relation to the Cold War, the term appeared in a June 1948 New York Times article on contemporary Italian politics ("Communist shift is seen in Europe"), [1] citing the Italian Democratic Socialist Party's newspaper L'Umanità []. [4]

  5. Idiot - Wikipedia

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    The Idiot by Evert Larock (1892). An idiot, in modern use, is a stupid or foolish person. 'Idiot' was formerly a technical term in legal and psychiatric contexts for some kinds of profound intellectual disability where the mental age is two years or less, and the person cannot guard themself against common physical dangers.

  6. Ivan the Fool - Wikipedia

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    Ivan the Fool (Russian: Иван-дурак, romanized: Ivan-durak, diminutive: Иванушка-дурачок, Ivanushka-durachok), also called Ivan the Ninny, is a lucky fool stock character who appears in Russian folklore, a very simple-minded, but, nevertheless, lucky young man. Ivan is described as a likeable, fair-haired and blue-eyed youth.

  7. Russian political jokes - Wikipedia

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    Russian political jokes are a part of Russian humour and can be grouped into the major time periods: Imperial Russia, Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. In the Soviet period political jokes were a form of social protest, mocking and criticising leaders, the system and its ideology, myths and rites. [ 1 ]

  8. The Idiot (1958 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Idiot (Russian: Идиот), is a 1959 Soviet film directed by Ivan Pyryev. It is based on Part 1 of the eponymous 1869 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky ; Yury Yakovlev declined to play the title character in a sequel which was never made.

  9. Village idiot - Wikipedia

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    The term "village idiot" is also used as a stereotype of the mentally disabled. [1] It has also been applied as an epithet for an unrealistically optimistic or naive individual. [2] The village idiot was long considered an acceptable social role, a unique individual who was dependent yet contributed to the social fabric of their community. [3]