The Private Life is Dead Remember Commander Strelnikov in the film classic, “Dr Zhivago” (1965)? He was the intellectual communist who had turned into a Red military commander in the civil war that followed the October Revolution. His comment “the private…
My wife and I watched the 5-episode mini-series, “Chernobyl” two evenings this past weekend. I was better than good, and has as much relevance today as it would have had had anyone actually known what went on back in the…
That was actually said in the early days of the crumbling Soviet Union. The speaker was a young man from the Caucasus who had staked out a street corner in Moscow where he planned to set up a kiosk to sell magazines and newspapers, notions and…