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The inspiration for this story came from:

1. A thread about a cultural revolution in 1960s Nazi Germany

2. "The Casket of Marie de Medici," a Soviet detective movie that I watched while hung over one night. It wasn't a good movie, but it had some interesting ideas. I later found out it was based on a much better book and have since read it. I steal a couple of characters and situations from the book and movie, and may borrow a phrase or twelve from them. However, the vast majority of the characters are different, as is the setting. Soviet Moscow in the early 1970s (book) and Soviet Leningrad in the early 1980s (movie) are nowhere close to Nazi Riga in the early 1960s. And nowhere is the change between my tale and that of its "inspiration" more pronounced than the alleged "hero" of my story. The book had a remarkably stolid Detective Losin while the movie made him blow-dried handsome smooth, my protagonist is neither stolid nor smooth nor blow-dried and probably not handsome, though he might disagree about the last part.
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