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		wordbank on July 19, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Russia’s Cold War Mapmakers > E.g. тайна in Russian is more like 'enigma', definitely not 'classified/secret'. How about "государственная тайна" then?

pandaman on July 19, 2015 [–]

It's an established idiom, same as военная тайна or, even better, тайный советник. Words that make up an idiom do not carry the same meaning outside one and vice versa.

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