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In the wake of recent Soviet offers to emigrated Soviet dancers to dance in their country, ballet star Rudolf Nureyev said Tuesday he would like to dance again in the Soviet Union after 25 years in the West. “I can’t say I am nostalgic in the sense of the Russians who cry when they are far from home,” said Nureyev in Milan before a performance of the Paris Opera ballet. “But I would like to show the Soviets how we dance the classics over here.”
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