Archive for October 9th, 2007
From the Archive: “A small piece of brown colored mass” Part 3/3
By Sean at 9 October, 2007, 5:55 pm
See part one and two of “A small piece of brown colored mass”.
Presidential Archive of the Russian Federation, f. 3, op. 3, d. 65, l. 32.
Copy
Captain 1st Department of the Scientific Research Chemical Institute of the RKKA
17 October 1935
It was revealed upon examination of the envelope:
A trace of the substance was not complely preserved [...]
Last Chance Saloon for Russia at Luzhniki
By Sean at 9 October, 2007, 5:08 pm
Russian sports is glaringly absent from this blog. Though I’m a big fan of sports my interest is solely on American professional sports, specifically basketball and baseball. I’ve been tempted to comment on a few Russian sports related stories, especially Andrei Kirilenko’s threats to dump the NBA and his lucrative $63 million contract [...]
Read More >>Peace Blankets and a Chocolate Stalin
By Sean at 9 October, 2007, 6:58 am
“Putin is stability!”, “Putin is peace in Chechnya!”, “Putin is the Olympics!”, “Putin is an eagle!”, and “Putin, we are with you!” These are some of the slogans 10,000 Nashi activists from over 20 regions shouted as they paraded down Moscow’s Taras Shevchenko Embankment on Sunday to celebrate Putin’s 55th birthday. The procession ended [...]
Read More >>From the Archive: “A small piece of brown colored mass” Part 2/3
By Sean at 9 October, 2007, 5:00 am
Part one of “A small piece of brown colored mass” can be read here.
Presidential Archive of the Russian Federation, f. 3, op. 3, d. 65, l. 29-31.
To the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs SSR Cde. Yagoda.
Report
On 16 October a letter from another town addressed “Kremlin to Cde. Stalin” was received by the Special Department of [...]
