by Robert | Dec 15, 2022 | Family, Resurrection, Russia, Soviet Union
Semur-en-Auxios, France The weather in France has turned cold, between 30-34F. I hear guffaws all the way from Northern Wisconsin. A blizzard sweeps across the northern plains and into the Northwoods as I type. Today is an anniversary of sorts. Patrice and I arrived...
by Robert | Jan 23, 2017 | Deception, Russia, Soviet Union |
‘Fake news’ in the US 2016 Presidential election. I have Facebook friends and relatives who repost without respite their unfiltered political or doomer or climate or religious mania. Used to be one encountered Uncle Frank once a year on Thanksgiving or at the 4th of...
by Robert | Apr 11, 2015 | Deception, Liar, Soviet Union, Wisconsin
Relatives visit the farm. Outside, the temperature was -25F. High winds swirled snow devils NW>SW across the south field. We had returned from X-C skiing. He picked up a book on Soviet intelligence operations in mid-twentieth century America. “That proves Joe...
by Robert | Mar 14, 2015 | Deception, Russia, Soviet Union
Believers and fools, liars and dupes The Executioner’s Son It is 1960. Two brothers, Russian Jews, meet in an abandoned warehouse in the Baumanskaya District of Moscow. It had been two decades since they had last seen one another. Blood under the bridge, my...
by Robert | Apr 14, 2014 | Croatia, Germany, Publishing, Soviet Union
It seems idyllic We are in Ljubljana today and tomorrow, 14 & 15 April 2014, passing through Slovenia on our way to six-months in Germany; it will be research, more or less, for me, a pilgrimage, more or less, for Patrice. Patrice’s mother lived her...
by Robert | Mar 21, 2014 | Croatia, Deception, Soviet Union
I apologize Tom, I’ve reread this morning the article by Naomi Oreske’s et.al. The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future that you’ve posted on your Facebook page some time ago. My initial opinion, that she misinterprets the...