eeeewww!
“And the communist regimes fell like dominoes. The dissident movement in Prague grew each day; in late November Václav Havel and Alexander Dubček stood before a cheering crowd of a quarter of a million people. Stasi offices all over East Germany were attacked and rifled. In Sofia, 50,000 Bulgarians demonstrated against the Communist Party’s hegemony. In Bucharest, Ceauşescu and his wife Elena were booed by the crowd, riots broke out, and the Rumanian Army stopped following orders.
“Meanwhile, an unknown KGB agent in Dresden, Vladimir Putin, tried to pile so many documents into a burning stove that the thing exploded.”
— In Europe, by Geert Mak, p. 718.
by Julie G.
All I can say is, I’m glad Brezhnev and Yeltsin never felt the need to regularly pose shirtless for publicity shots.
HAHAHAHAHA!!! Do you read http://punditkitchen.com/ ? They’re dubbing Saturdays “Vladurday” there. 🙂
eeeewww!
“And the communist regimes fell like dominoes. The dissident movement in Prague grew each day; in late November Václav Havel and Alexander Dubček stood before a cheering crowd of a quarter of a million people. Stasi offices all over East Germany were attacked and rifled. In Sofia, 50,000 Bulgarians demonstrated against the Communist Party’s hegemony. In Bucharest, Ceauşescu and his wife Elena were booed by the crowd, riots broke out, and the Rumanian Army stopped following orders.
“Meanwhile, an unknown KGB agent in Dresden, Vladimir Putin, tried to pile so many documents into a burning stove that the thing exploded.”
— In Europe, by Geert Mak, p. 718.
The exploding stove things happens to me every time I get an IRS letter.
I personally only blow up the stove during putsches and coups d’etat. But that’s just me.
Wonder if he used an unusually small horse to make him look bigger?