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Kopeisk Siberian Babies Switched at Birth

Shocking but True

What happens when a Christian baby and a Muslim baby are swapped at birth?

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Both mothers saw the babies, and should have remembered them.

All Yulia Beliayeva remembers of the night she gave birth, Dec. 17, 1998, was the cursing of the doctors.

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