Word: lubyanka
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lourie's Stalin enjoys the occasional note of totalitarian whimsy, as when, late one night, he rides back to the Kremlin from Lubyanka in his limousine, accompanied by "Boss Two," the near identical double who stood in for him at risky public appearances. Stalin has the limo stop alongside a drunk, rolls down the window and lets the drunk see...twin Stalins! "Drink a little less," Uncle Joe advises, and the limo roars off. This Stalin takes in the world with a savage candor. At a meeting with his hatchetman Lavrenty Beria, "I caught a whiff of that hideous cologne...
...soldiers haven't been paid in months). The plan is to get a little back from the foreign spy agencies who have swooped into Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union, scooping up precious military secrets from Russians for a song. So far, the boys working the Lubyanka hotline say the response has been fantastic. Several hundred "interesting" phone calls (as well as a few "psychologically abnormal" ones) have poured in since Nikolai Kovalyov, head of the KGB's successor, the Federal Security Service, went public in a recent televised appeal...
...much honor and prestige. Such confidence has not always been justified: Russian intellectuals may like to view themselves as social oracles, but they have never been particularly good at predicting the future. Many of the intelligentsia who welcomed the 1917 Revolution became its first victims in the cellars of Lubyanka prison. Today they face a different kind of crisis in the aftermath of the democratic revolution: they are in danger of becoming irrelevant in a society where commerce is winning out over culture...
...Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (once known as the KGB) is starting its own newsmagazine. The first issue bristles with articles about espionage, the Russian mafia and the infamous Lubyanka prison, which some of the editors probably know firsthand. Called SB, the monthly also includes profiles of KGB spies. With pictures...
...Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (once known as the KGB) is starting its own newsmagazine. The first issue bristles with articles about espionage, the Russian mafia and the infamous Lubyanka prison, which some of the editors probably know firsthand. Called SB, the monthly also includes profiles of KGB spies. With pictures...