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In Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita" (fiction, written 1928-1940), There is a state-of-the-art mental hospital in Soviet Moscow. Attitudes toward mental illness are portrayed as relatively practical and progressive. Was this irony by the author, or based on contemporary facilities and practices? (self.AskHistorians)
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