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2007-03-05 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Assassinations Of The Annoying By Russia Continuing

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-03-05 09:16|| || Front Page|| [11145 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ivan fell out of the window with his coat and hat on? Come on,"

Maybe it wuz cold out???

Posted by ARMYGUY 2007-03-05 10:17|| 2007-03-05 10:17|| Front Page Top

#2 I've got a little list.
I've got a little list,
Of folks who won't be missed
Of folks who won't be missed,
From the Queen's hand maiden on down.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-03-05 10:46|| 2007-03-05 10:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Just to be clear about that... if any FSB agents (whom I do fully respect and look up to, as they are the Elite of today's Russia) are reading RB, let me assure you, dear sirs, that I have a very positive view of Vladimir Putin, who is certainly the most under-rated, yet important, leader of our times. Go Putin!
(please, don't kill me)

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-03-05 11:02|| 2007-03-05 11:02|| Front Page Top

#4 LOL!

Prudent - and well said, indeed.

Posted by Betty Throter5216 2007-03-05 13:30|| 2007-03-05 13:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Rosa Kleb and Red Grant. Grant is telling Bond what a fool he is because he knows what kind of wine to order but that he, Grant, is the one who is now holding the gun. The ensuing fight scene on the train was one of the best I'd ever seen. In the novel From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming the bad guys were from SMERSH, Stalin's very real Death to Spies branch of the KGB. In the movie they changed it so the bad guys worked for SPECTRE, a fictitious crime syndicate, in the interest of better relations with the Soviet Union. In a strange way I kind of miss the bad old days of the Cold War because of all the highly entertaining spy novels that came out of it. But it looks like that Litvinenko story would make a great novel.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-03-05 14:57|| 2007-03-05 14:57|| Front Page Top

#6 SMERSH comes from the Russian words for"Kill all spies" which was a Stalin order in the '30s. But realizing that their embassy people would be targeted by pissed off Euros and Americans, it was decided to withdraw the order.

I wish I could remember what the words are, being an ubergeek I would insert the words at every opportunity into any conversation.

Oh, sigh, I have no life!

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839">AlmostAnonymous5839 2007-03-05 16:06|| 2007-03-05 16:06|| Front Page Top

#7 SMERSH, short for SMERt' SHpionam (СМЕРть Шпионам), or "Death to Spies." I don't think Stalin's order was ever rescinded. Hundreds if not thousands of people were murdered by SMERSH in the west. One of their coolest roles during WWII was executing their own troops retreating in the face of German attacks. See wiki
See this BBC article on a sentimental get-together of SMERSH veterans in 2003.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-03-05 16:51|| 2007-03-05 16:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe it wuz cold out???

LOL Army Guy!

Posted by Shipman 2007-03-05 17:24|| 2007-03-05 17:24|| Front Page Top

#9 > executing their own troops retreating in the face of German attacks.

Watch the first fifteen minutes of "Enemy at the Gates" for a re-enactment of this. (Watch the whole movie - it's excellent).

Posted by DMFD 2007-03-05 18:03|| 2007-03-05 18:03|| Front Page Top

#10 hummmm SMERt' SHpionam, i wonder ifn there's a connection...

;-)

Posted by RD 2007-03-05 19:52|| 2007-03-05 19:52|| Front Page Top

#11 FREEREPUBLIC + LUCIANNE Posters > are speculating or arguing that RUSSIA is contempor devolving into a genuine GLOBAL MAFIA STATE, disguised as a SHADOW COMMIE STATE disguised as a FASCIST-STYLE? "LIBERAL" = NATIONALIST-RIGHTIST STATE, where Commies = Fascists/Nationalists = Mafiacrats???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-03-05 21:58|| 2007-03-05 21:58|| Front Page Top

#12 I thought this sort of thing only happened in Prague.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-03-05 23:51|| 2007-03-05 23:51|| Front Page Top

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