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AN AWKWARD DANCE: MY FATHER AND KHRUSHCHEV. PART I. 27 Aug 2013 | 10:41 am
In one of his newspaper interviews, my father Artem was asked about his relationship with Khrushchev. It is inconceivable, the interviewer said, that Khrushchev didn’t know about Stalin’s adoptive son...
THREE BULLETS POINTBLANK. PART III OF 3. 26 Aug 2013 | 10:50 am
...Following the assassination at the Kremlin, there was an even greater conspiracy of massive cover-up. The Soviet leaders did not wish to be seen like some Mafia hit men in the eyes of the world and...
THREE BULLETS POINTBLANK. PART II OF 3. 25 Aug 2013 | 12:14 pm
Having promoted Malenkov to the pinnacle, Beria sat back and enjoyed the show, watching the extremely uncomfortable Malenkov deal with the resentful Presidium comrades, who almost immediately called f...
THREE BULLETS POINTBLANK. PART I OF 3. 24 Aug 2013 | 11:04 am
(From my father Artem’s reminiscences of Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria: “A dark impression… Whenever Beria would come, he was overpowering. But you cannot take it from him, he was a colossal figure. All a...
CHRONOLOGICAL REFERENCE LIST FOR THE HISTORY ENTRIES. PART III. 23 Aug 2013 | 10:47 am
(I have this ongoing list on my blog now, posted in installments, as the best way out of the serious predicament caused by sporadic postings of historical entries, to the detriment of chronological co...
CALCULATED VENGEANCE 22 Aug 2013 | 10:33 am
This entry is a sort of postscript to the one on Yamamoto and Japan. (See my entry Yamamoto, posted on my blog on February 19th, 2011.) The fact that Stalin was sore at Japan for the 1904-1905 Russo-...
MARLBORO MAN. PART II. 21 Aug 2013 | 11:09 am
…Among the less known, or completely unknown, details about Churchill’s life is the fact that his mother Jennie Jerome (1854-1921) was the daughter of an American millionaire Leonard Jerome, and she i...
MARLBORO MAN. PART I. 20 Aug 2013 | 11:04 am
This entry opens a short sub-subsection within the Stalin subsection, centering on Winston Churchill (1874-1965). I have nicknamed him Marlboro Man, reflecting both on his Anglo-American heritage, and...
FRANCO: THE MAN WHO CHEATED THE ODDS. PART II. 19 Aug 2013 | 10:52 am
…Stalin had reliable information that Generalissimo Franco was on his way out. There were millions of progressive men and women in Spain, who were profoundly dissatisfied and offended by the regime of...
FRANCO: THE MAN WHO CHEATED THE ODDS. PART I. 18 Aug 2013 | 10:11 am
(The story of how, after World War II, Generalissimo and Caudillo of Spain Francisco Franco survived against the odds. This is my second and last Spanish entry in this particular sequence, for the sam...
