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themanintheseersuckersuit
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by themanintheseersuckersuit » Thu Oct 09, 2008 5:01 pm
Boris Yefimov
Boris Yefimov, who died yesterday aged 108, was the Russia' s leading political cartoonist of the 20th century and one of the last surviving witnesses to the birth of the Soviet Union.
During his lifetime Yefimov saw revolution, civil war, genocide, two world wars, the Cold War and a putsch. As a boy he saw the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and later he met Lenin. He personally knew many prominent revolutionaries, including Trotsky and Bukharin. He sat in the Great Hall of Columns as around him the show trials destroyed the lives of many former colleagues.
During the Second World War Yefimov saw for himself the horrors of concentration camps of Majdanek and Treblinka in Poland. He stood opposite the Nazi leaders at the Nuremberg trials. Fifty years on, he watched from the window of his apartment as Yeltsin's tanks fired on the Russian parliament. He even lived to cast his vote for Putin.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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NellyLunatic1980
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by NellyLunatic1980 » Thu Oct 09, 2008 5:06 pm
It should be noted that Efimov (or Yefimov, whichever spelling floats your boat) has been dead since October 1.
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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by themanintheseersuckersuit » Thu Oct 09, 2008 5:32 pm
NellyLunatic1980 wrote:It should be noted that Efimov (or Yefimov, whichever spelling floats your boat) has been dead since October 1.
Breaking news just in: Cartoonist Boris Yefimov
still dead.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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elwoodblues
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by elwoodblues » Thu Oct 09, 2008 5:47 pm
But he never did catch Moose and Squirrel.
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silverscreenselect
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by silverscreenselect » Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:57 am
Was he related to Boris Badenov, a famed agent of the Cold War era captured in Frostbite Falls, MN and later exchanged for Dudley Do-Right?
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