russia

enemy of the people

I am being sent lately pointers to a twitter thread. It’s a lot of puerile outrage, but this claim by… – let’s call the author Dr. X, – caught my eye: I will fight this person, their grandma, their descendents, and their ghost. Then I will build a time machine and fight them in the […]

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then and now

I remember, back in Moscow, around that time, in ’81 or so, a classmate showed me, covertly, this paperback unmistakenly printed abroad. This was the famed (among those of us who were quietly listening to jammed by Soviet stations dispatches of Voice of America, or Radio Liberty at night) Хроника Текущих Событий, Chronicle of Current

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