“A few years ago, a former American intelligence officer whom I knew well, having arrived in Moscow, during dinner at a restaurant on Ostozhenka, said: ‘We know that you have had successes that you have every right to be proud of. But time will pass, and you will gasp (if this is declassified) at what […]

Oleg Yasinsky07.11.2024

Some bastards lost the US presidential election. Others won it. The peoples of the world – their food – watched this process, like the heroes of “Jurassic Park” watch a fight between dinosaurs, where both sides are representatives of the fauna hostile to us. The times have come when decent people have no right to […]

Alexander Palladin06.11.2024

My speech at Richard Bland College, Petersburg, Va. March 20, 1985. “Mr. Chairman, esteemed hosts, ladies and gentlemen! As little as I might know about your country and your mores, I do know that a person in my present position is expected to start with а joke. I feel being under special pressure of this […]

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The 40th US President Ronald Reagan was branded Great Communicator. If the USSR had a national leader who deserved such a title it was, no doubt, Joseph Stalin. He recognized the power of PR full well and used it with magnificent dexterity. The military parade at Red Square on November 7th, 1941, is just an […]

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World War One was the catalyst that made possible the speedy collapse of the Russian state and society after the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II in the February Revolution of 1917. All sectors of society in the Russian Empire underwent major changes both on the war front and on the home front from 1914 to […]

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In August of 1983 16-year old Andrei Berezhkov, youngest son of Valentin Berezhkov, first secretary of the USSR Embassy, sparked a diplomatic confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. Former Stalin’s interpreter who had translated Soviet leaders’ talks with Hitler, Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, in the United States V. Berezhkov represented the Institute […]

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The current US president called Trump supporters “garbage”. Ahead of Kamala Harris’s final campaign speech, Joe Biden gave her a huge, cheerfully grunting pig. Commenting on comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke, who called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at Donald Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden in New York, Biden said: “The only garbage […]

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Stand-up comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at Madison Square Garden. In fact, harsh jokes in stand-up performances are commonplace, and Hinchcliffe’s words were taken out of context, but during the election season, it is precisely taking individual words out of context and twisting what was said that becomes almost […]

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Back in April 1982 US media revealed President Reagan’s intention to have lunch with a group of Soviet dissidents who had emigrated to the West. Their list contained the names of about a dozen of persons barely known to American people. Meanwhile, the extraordinary event was planned to coincide with the renewal of the Soviet-American […]

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