Tag: Soviet Union
Dancing with Snowflakes: The Personification of Death in The Rainbow
Note: This is a crosspost from my personal blog.
The following are a few quotes that stood out to me in Chapter Four of The Rainbow.
Read More »Yes, to see the last German on the gallows, to see them working until they dropped.
But what good would that do her? Others might be satisfied, but her heart would never know peace. No amount of blood, no length of time, no revenge could wash away her memories. They would remain festering at her heart forever.
The Joseph E. Davies – Donald Trump Connection
By way of a detour into personal details, it is worth mentioning that [Joseph] Davies’s second wife (from 1935 to 1955, i.e. in part during his tenure in Moscow) was Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887 1973), the wealthiest (and perhaps most attractive) heiress in all of the United States, proprietress of the Postum cereal firm and founder of General Foods, Inc. The couple spent some of their vacation time at Mar-a-Lago, Ms. Post’s soon famous summer residence in Palm Beach, Florida. The mansion, then comprising no fewer than 126 rooms, was later acquired by a multi-billionaire named Donald Trump, in 1985. It still has 118 rooms.
Tibor Frank, The Blind Eyewitness: Joseph E. Davies, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow (1936–1938), Transatlantic Elective Affinities: Traveling Ideas and Their Mediators
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Crickets and Cold War Propaganda
From a Glint to a Revolution
History of U.S. involvement in narcotics smuggling
Did Stalin Want to Join NATO?
Discussion in the Meeting with the Creative Intellectuals (1946)
CIA: Comments on the Change in Soviet Leadership
Read More »Even in Stalin’s time there was collective leadership. The Western idea of a dictator within the Communist setup is exaggerated. Misunderstandings on that subject are caused by lack of comprehension of the real nature and organization of the Communist power structure. Stalin, although holding wide powers, was merely the captain of a team and it seems obvious that Khrushchev will be the new captain. However, It does not appear that any of the present leaders will rise to the stature of Lenin and Stalin, so that it will be safer to assume that developments in Moscow will be along the lines of what is called collective leadership, unless Western policies force the Soviets to stream-line their power organization. The present situation is the most favorable from the point of view of upsetting the Communist dictatorship since the death of Stalin:
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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