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We’ve still got this one, dammit
“Box-Champion Wladimir Klitschko und Rafael Kujundzic, Chef der Barack Obama Partei.” Thank you, http://barackobamapartei.jimdo.com I’ve been watching what’s going on in Kiev with some interest,...
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Oligarchs
Because the Americans would never do that… I don’t think anyone is surprised to learn that the new ‘Maidan’ government in the Ukraine has appointed a handful of oligarchs to rule over industry-rich,...
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Notes From A Country Doctor
Don’t use the Cyrillic alphabet for English words. Just don’t do it. Please. Mikhail Bukgalov is one of my favorite writers and I believe many people share my opinion, because his collection of short...
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Pontius Pilate and Christ
St. Andrew’s Church on Kiev’s Andriyivskyy Descent, where the Bulgakov family lived for a time. The travesty that is A Young Doctor’s Notebook left me with a bad taste in my mouth, so this weekend I...
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Satan’s Diary
Leonid Andreyev by Ilya Repin. I was browsing Librivox yesterday (Walpurgis Night, the night witches party on Mt. Brocken) when I found something that blew my socks off. Satan’s Diary is a play written...
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Henry Wondergood
Srdja Popovic teaches pigs how to shop. Last week I hit on the play which inspired Mikhail Bulgakov’s literary masterpiece, The Master and Margarita: Leonid Andreyev’s Satan’s Diary. This post is about...
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A Death in Finland
Leonid Andreyev stands before one of his own drawings, 1909. A few months ago, I wrote about Leonid Andreyev’s final book, Satan’s Diary. This is an extraordinary work that probably inspired Mikhail...
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Who Funds Anti Communism?
A small announcement: I’ve created a handful of pages containing ‘primary source’ material over the last few years. These pages include document images from William Colby’s ‘Family Jewels’ leaks, as...
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Who Was Ernst Henri?
Ivan Maiskii (second from left), the Soviet ambassador to London between 1932 and 1943, with Winston Churchill at the Allied ambassadors’ lunch at the Soviet embassy, September 1941. Thank you,...
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Kim Philby on Homosexuality
A few weeks ago I bought a book titled My 5 Cambridge Friends: Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt and Cairncross, by “Their KGB Controller”. Here’s the cover of the book. My 5 Cambridge Friends is not...
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