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September 11, 1921
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Sunday. I liked Sundays. I had very deliberately carved them out as my day off, which in this country and in my line of work was about as close as one could get to a religious miracle. Five...
September 7, 1921
Lubyanka
Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
I stood in the counting room, watching my men move stacks of American dollars from one pile to another with the sort of reverence usually reserved for religious icons. It was almost funny—men who would quote Marx in...
The Internationale (Soviet Version), re-written by Mikheil Jughashvili and made the national anthem in September 1939:
Arise, you who are branded with a curse,
All the hungry and enslaved people of the world!
The Great Rus' has finally begun
The creation of a new world
We will destroy this...
A British Pathe newsreel released August 15 1941
BRITISH PATHÉ NEWS
"BRODY: THE BATTLE THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING"
Produced August 15th, 1941
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[Dramatic orchestral opening. Maps of Eastern Europe, arrows showing German and Soviet positions near Brody, Eastern Galicia]
NARRATOR: In the...
Consider this latest chapter a sort of ret-con if you will. Mostly on Mika's psychology. I've read a bit on Vranyo, though I had never really thought about how I could apply it.
That and part of me wants to, I'm not sure how to put it, have the character blend into the culture more. A lot of...
Threadmarks: Vranyo, Vranyo, and god-damned Vranyo
April 7, 1888
Gori
The Russian Empire
I had a rock clenched in my right fist and "Everybody Wants to rule the world" humming cheerfully in my head as I crossed the bridge connecting the east side of Gori to the west. Tears for Fears felt appropriate. Today was, after all, a day someone would...
-Our Hate gives us strength
Message written in a Soviet propaganda poster in WW2
June 14, 1921
Lubyanka Building
Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Genrikh Yagoda stopped in front of Jugashvili's office door.
He did not look at the guards on either side. He never did...
After what those animals did to the Soviet Union, we have earned the right to our vengeance.
-Mikheil Jugashvili during the first meeting of the Big Three
June 12, 1921
Greenwich Village, New York City, New York
United States of America
Aleksander Svanidze sat at the small wooden kitchen...
Lyrics from a Russian song about the South African civil war, released sometime in the 90s:
Hello sister, my dear, how are you?
The winter had probably swept the way home already?
The stars are falling over Cape town in the rays of dawn
Just don't tell mom that I'm in YUAR (South Africa)
The...
"Silver, or lead"
Mikheil Jugashvili addressing the various American crime bosses during the Stockholm conference
May 7, 1921
The Brandstrom Residence
Stockholm, Sweden
Elsa Brändström sat near the fireplace, the late spring chill still clinging stubbornly to the air. The fire crackled...
"In Colombia, everyone and their mother knew the Narcos and the Reds were working together."
—Excerpt from Narcos, Season 1, Episode 1
April 1, 1921
The Kremlin
Moscow, Russian SFSR
I poured vodka into Stalin's glass first—because of course I did—then Aleksander's, then John Reed's, and...
Threadmarks: Architect of Oppression (End of season 1)
"I look forward to burning down Berlin and using your Fuhrer's skull as a cup once your country violates the treaty we just signed."
Mikheil Jugashvili addressing Joachim Ribbentrop after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact
March 31, 1921
Lubyanka Building
Moscow, Russian SFSR
I stood...
The New York Times
July 17, 1973
Somali Forces Take Dire Dawa
Somali troops, supported by Soviet and Cuban volunteers, captured the strategic Ethiopian city of Dire Dawa early today, dealing a significant blow to the government of Emperor Haile Selassie. Military sources said the assault was...