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God’s Hammer, guerrilla warfare, Ukraine and the breath of life
When I was a little girl, 5 years old, my lungs asserted themselves inauspiciously. Starting with several months of pneumonia, they proceeded, as I grew up, into various bronchial uproars, and then asthma attacks. It was during an extended asthma … Continue reading
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Tagged bronchiectasis, Crimea, emphysema, glasnost, Howard Fast, My Glorious Brothers, Odessa, perestroika, Putin, Soviet Union, the Maccabees, Ukraine
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“Don’t trust them.”
In 1985 or so, when my father was diminished, in a wheel chair with an oxygen tank because of the emphysema that would kill him, some new words were introduced into the international conversation: Glasnost. Perestroika. A new leader had … Continue reading
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Tagged Franklin Foer, glasnost, Gorbachev, Mueller investigation, perestroika, Richard Palmer, Russian corruption, Russian money in US, Soviet Union collapse, The Atlantic
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