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...Cold War is intelligent, thoughtful and overflowing with footnote-laden accounts of all the terrible things Vladimir Putin and his lieutenants have been doing since the former KGB agent took power on New Year...
...easy to ignore Watson’s courage. In 1981 he secretly entered Siberia to document a Soviet facility converting illegally hunted whale meat into feed for animals at a fur farm, evading the KGB and the Soviet Navy in his subsequent escape. Actor Martin Sheen calls him “one of the gutsiest guys on the planet” and the Dalai Lama has gifted him a statue of Hayagriva, a wrathful Hindu deity who strikes down his evil foes...
...KGB chief, first in Ukraine and then in Russia, the beefy Vitaly Fedorchuk was known as a thug. Thought to be behind kidnappings and murders as the "Butcher of Ukraine," he later persecuted Russians who had too much contact with foreigners before finally becoming highly visible as the Soviet Union's top cop in the '80s. His efforts at first seemed to foreshadow perestroika-like reforms: he exposed official corruption and condemned drunkenness. But Western analysts called his heavy-handed tactics "neo-Stalinist." In the late '80s Mikhail Gorbachev sidelined him. Fedorchuk...
...selection. Putin has so far served his country well, but he reminds me of the classic western movie sheriff who is brought in to clean up a town and then becomes a bigger bad guy than the bad guys he was asked to eliminate. Putin was weaned by the KGB, and I anticipate the worst from him. His very expression is off-putting. I'm 80 years old, not a profane person and quite benign in my declining years. But when I opened the magazine and saw that low-angle shot of Putin, I impulsively shouted a curse, like...
...story is just all too depressingly familiar: back in 2005, the Belarus KGB detained me for exactly the same reason the St. Petersburg police detained Kinnock. This is from my 2005 Belarus notes: "A traffic cop pulls us over ... and 'detects' the smell of alcohol on the driver's breath." They hadn't even bothered to vary their vocabulary this week...