tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post987184158931487796..comments2024-03-29T15:04:20.549+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: The Maisky Diaries: Soviet ambassador extraordinaireHelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-90941162622592532612016-04-08T03:42:00.920+10:002016-04-08T03:42:00.920+10:00Parnassus
nod... especially in the years Maisky w...Parnassus<br /><br />nod... especially in the years Maisky was active. But you will never know. Gorodetsky acknowledged that the chances of finding intact, honest and contemporary diaries by a Soviet ambassador were remote indeed.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-79911519930021628892016-04-07T17:32:48.915+10:002016-04-07T17:32:48.915+10:00Maisky sounds like he did a lot of good in his car...Maisky sounds like he did a lot of good in his career, but it is a source of wonder for me how many "diplomats" cavalierly treat the lives of their citizens and young soldiers in these negotiations.Parnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-12557954458523546272016-04-07T01:34:04.741+10:002016-04-07T01:34:04.741+10:00Joseph
Maxim Litvinov (1876–1951) was a very educ...Joseph<br /><br />Maxim Litvinov (1876–1951) was a very educated Jewish journalist, editor, linguist and political activist who became the Soviet government's first ambassador in Britain after the Revolution. Just a few years older than Maisky, Litvinov saw a soul mate he wanted to support and mentor. They both worked very hard to form a closer relationship between Russia, France and Britain in the years leading up to WW2.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-43513896145471579862016-04-07T01:25:21.062+10:002016-04-07T01:25:21.062+10:00Ex-pat
Stalin (1878-1953) may have started his pu...Ex-pat<br /><br />Stalin (1878-1953) may have started his public career relatively normally, but he suffered increasingly from paranoia, manic depression, Narcissistic Personality Disorder and, as suggested in his autopsy, major atherosclerosis in the brain. The longer he lived, the worst his violence was becoming.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-54672951902025895502016-04-07T01:17:54.733+10:002016-04-07T01:17:54.733+10:00Andrew
the older and mentally sicker that Stalin ...Andrew<br /><br />the older and mentally sicker that Stalin became, the more bizarre the plots he revealed and punished. Stalin hated doctors anyhow, but in 1953 he reported that many Soviet doctors were responsible for “wrecking, espionage and terrorist activities against the leaders of the Soviet Government.” The arrests started in September 1952, at first a small number of cosmopolitan and Jewish doctors and then the numbers grew and grew (like witchcraft trials). <br /><br />Stalin was going to put the doctors on trial, then execute them all, given that his show trial were meant to rid the nation of dangerous foreigners. The Doctors' show trials would definitely have been successful, had Stalin not died in March 1953. The surviving doctors were released, immediately after his funeral.<br /><br />The connection with Maisky to the Doctors' Plot may have been coincidental but a] consider the timing of Maisky's arrest and torture (Feb 1953) and b] note that Maisky was a cosmopolitan, a Jew and a foreigner.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-77371738028787312042016-04-06T15:21:15.512+10:002016-04-06T15:21:15.512+10:00Who was Maxim Litvinov and why was he Maisky's...Who was Maxim Litvinov and why was he Maisky's mentor?Josephnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-67678171734690645302016-04-06T10:05:44.673+10:002016-04-06T10:05:44.673+10:00What a shame Stalin didn't die earlier. Not ju...What a shame Stalin didn't die earlier. Not just for Maisky's life and career,Ex-patnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-10139356209289606362016-04-06T08:45:28.562+10:002016-04-06T08:45:28.562+10:00Fascinating man, who may have more wisely stayed i...Fascinating man, who may have more wisely stayed in Britain after the end of the war. Off to google the Doctors' Plot now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com