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The Repatriate: Love, Basketball, and the KGB

Tom Mooradian

2008

Moreradiant Publishing, Seattle

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[in English]

For journalists, I have read, the Soviet Union was an enigma. It was never one for me. If there was a puzzle, it was how Stalin has managed not only to fool his own people but to fool the leaders of the world for as long as he did. Stalin and his anointed members of the Politburo, the governing body of the Soviet Union, were master puppeters, dangling entire republics on strings, making people sit, stand, leap, and shout on their masters’ whims. As a human puppet, you learn quickly that if you don’t want to be tossed into the fire, you had better move and dance when and how the puppet master pulls the stings.