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...attention lately, as the target of Russian air attacks that followed the outbreak of fighting in South Ossetia. But that's not the central Georgian city's only claim to fame. Gori is home to perhaps the world's only museum officially dedicated to the memory of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, who was born there in 1878, and named Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. And, curiously enough, it turns out that many residents of Gori, have a soft spot for the dictator. His epic crimes and Russia's recent attack on their homeland notwithstanding, Stalin remains is the local boy who made...
...executives is a warning to the rest of German industry that such practices are under threat. The personalities involved make up a veritable A-Team of German management: Siemens' supervisory board is chaired by Gerhard Cromme, former CEO of German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp, and includes powerful business titans such as Josef Ackermann, the CEO of Deutsche Bank, and Michael Dieckmann, CEO of financial services giant Allianz AG. They were no doubt aware that a decision to go after previous execs Kleinfeld and particularly von Pierer - a former advisor to Chancellor Angela Merkel dubbed "Mr. Industry" by German media - would reverberate...
Lucas details a 1984-style "History According to the Kremlin" now being taught in classrooms, according to which Josef Stalin, the greatest mass murderer in history, was a patriot who did what had to be done to defeat fascism. And he also examines the Kremlin's repeated use of its ample energy resources to threaten its Western-oriented neighbors. Most troubling is what Lucas calls "pipeline politics" - Moscow's plans to build the Nord Stream gas pipeline from the Shtokman Field in the Barents Sea to the German city of Greifswald; and its attempts to derail Western plans to install...
...hard to imagine more ill-fated births than those of Kerstin, Stefan and Felix Fritzl. In 1984, their father, Josef, the authoritarian patriarch of an already sprawling Austrian family, locked his teenage daughter Elisabeth into a converted nuclear shelter underneath his house in the town of Amstetten so he could rape her at will. His incestuous abuse led to the birth of seven children, three of whom he kept imprisoned underground with their mother. Until April 26, when Austrian authorities discovered Fritzl's lair, reality for those children stretched no further than their dank, windowless confines, their mother's memories...
...Thursday, the Austrian publication News Magazin published comments from the incarcerated Josef Fritzl conveyed by his lawyer. Fritzl declared he was a good father, bringing gifts to his children in what he called "the bunker" and spending time watching videos and having dinner with them. He did say that what he did was wrong and that he "must have been crazy." "With every week that I held my daughter, my situation got crazier," he said through his lawyer. "I repeatedly thought about whether I should let her go or not." But he kept her prisoner through seven pregnancies...