What did you say?
Vladimir Lenin

“Marxism has won its historic significance as the ideology of the revolutionary proletariat because… it has… assimilated and refashioned everything of value in the more than two thousand years of the development of human thought and culture.” (1920)

- Vladimir Lenin
and my story begins in Russia… #2

and my story begins in Russia… #2

Posted on Oct 21, 2016 in Uncategorized

On the ‘Red Arrow’ — a famous Soviet-period overnight train between St Petersburg and Moscow — I shared a cabin with a kindly man named Igor. His English vocabulary extended to the words ‘dog’ and ‘bed’, which got us only so far. The crowning moment of our communication came when he showed me a photo on his […]