Tag Archives: russia

A Winter War

February 21, 2022 – 11:56 am

Throughout this Autumn and Winter Russia’s leader Boris Putin has been threatening the Ukraine with invasion to prevent any further Western incursion to the ex-Soviet republic. The USA and UK have responded with supplying weapons and supplies to the steppe nation and the newspapers daily report on the potential war without mentioning that only one […]

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TO RUSSIA FOR US by Peter Nolan Smith

July 10, 2021 – 1:17 pm

In May of 2009 Johnnie Z asked if I wanted to go to Russia.

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Homo Scan

March 25, 2019 – 2:27 pm

In April of 2009 Johnny Zombie from Palm Beach sent me to Russia to speak with his customers about their non-payment for merchandise. My friends in New York thought that these Russki ‘businessmen’ would kill me, but I had a band member from Aquarium for my companion. Everyone loved that band. Seve dropped at the […]

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OFF WITH THEIR HEADS Aquarium

March 11, 2018 – 2:20 pm

During my trip to 2009 trip to Russia I was lucky enough to encounter Seve Gakkel, the cellist of the famous Soviet era band Aquarium. The band dated back to 1972, when Boris Grebenshchikov and Anatoly Gunitsky joined forces with several musicians to play art rock at a Leningrad restaurant. The KGB hated the music, […]

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The Good Russian Boris

August 4, 2015 – 3:54 pm

On August 18, 1991 Boris Yeltsin and his backers was under siege at the Moscow parliament. The old commies were staging an armed coup to oust Gobarchov’s successor. He drank a bottle of vodka and confronted the rebel soliders in tanks. They listened to his passionate plea from Rodina and did not fire on the […]

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