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==== Outside Russia, efforts to recover the original legacy continued: ====
* 2000: A full English-language edition of Night Without Flags is published by a small Holocaust studies press. It receives glowing reviews but low sales. A reviewer in The Nation writes: >
* 2003: A revival of Yakob’s “Studies for a Deaf Government” is staged at Lincoln Center, introduced by John Adams. The program includes a note: >
* 2005: A Berlin-based dance collective stages a full reconstruction of Iron Flowers, based on Franka’s original notations. The performance, raw and uncompromising, ends with a barefoot dancer collapsing onto coal-streaked linen. The Russian embassy protests.

Meanwhile, within Russia, Franka’s legacy is quietly sanitized:
* Her memoirs are reprinted (heavily edited) under the title "Grace Under Red Skies."
* A Kremlin-adjacent ballet institute launches the Franka Gershovitz Choreographic Award, focused on "works rooted in traditional Russian values and collective sacrifice."

The award’s inaugural winner choreographs a heroic ballet about the Chechen War. Franka’s name is on the certificate. Her spirit is nowhere to be found.