(произносить с рус. акцентом)

(это рондель или что-то еще? забыл...)

My grandfather's father was a Civil War "hero" who fought against Alexander Kolchak's forces. My grandfather himself was a career military man. He made the mistake of enrolling into NKVD, where he worked for several months in the 1930s. He saw that it was a people-killing machine and went back to his army service. After this experience he knew what kind of "glory" was associated with Cheka\KGB, and called Stalin a butcher.

In 1939 he was an aviation captain and was sent to Latvia. He witnessed the occupation of Latvia, when tens of thousands were sent to Siberia by the glorious Chekists. He said to his family that "we are occupiers in the Baltic, just like the Germans were occupiers in Russia". That branch of my family was quite disabused of their pre-1917 views on Communism and the Communist Party, not to mention the glorious Cheka.

On the paternal side, my grandmother was a Ukrainian and told my father of people being sent away for being "kulaks" and of people killing their orchard trees in the night in order to save their families from being dealt with as "kulaks". One day my father, a young kid, came home and saw a table set for a feast, and the window curtains drawn. His father said to him: "the Moustached one has croaked" (усатый сдох).

Sadly, the Moustached one has not croaked completely yet, judging by what goes on in my country. He is on a bit of revival. So it feels nice to write a little ditty now and then.

да зря вообще наши предки из воды на сушу повылезали - а то эволюция эволюцией, но надо ж было немножко и мозгов приложить... эх, да что теперь...

http://youtu.be/hOzZROaFk6Y

>> My grandfather's father was...
Just like that, huh?..) He went to his superiors and said: ''I've had it with this "people-killing machine", Stalin is a butcher" and resigned? And you expect me to believe that??..) I mean, where did you get your history lessons from - the Yeltsin Center?..)))
What's even more incredible is that his superiors must have been genuine liberals, because instead of sending him to Siberia (or worse!), they gave him a pilot's job in Latvia. I mean, wow!
>> a table set for a feast
Do you mean to say that they had a little celebration while the rest of the country was mourning and nobody (like some nosy neighbours) reported snitched to the authorities?..)
So forgive me for taking your tale of woe with a pinch handful of salt.

And finally, let me just remind you that Cheka happens to be part of Soviet history (which in turn is part of Russian history) and you have to accept it with all its virtues and flaws. That is if you truly love your country.
In the meantime, writing derisive verses on MT (or anywhere else for that matter), will not change the past, it will only sow discord and cause division in our society. Can't you see that? Unless of course sowing discord and causing division (or otherwise destabilizing the situation) is what you are really after, man.

PS Say hello to your pals on Эхо Москвы ;-)

"Василий Михайлович Блохин убивал всех - простых людей, своих сослуживцев, высших чинов.

Это он лично расстрелял Тухачевского, Ежова, Фриновского, Кольцова, Бабеля, Мейерхольда.

Чекист Василий Блохин. С 1924 по 1953 год расстреливал людей. Лично убил от 10 до 15 тысяч человек.

Предпочитал убивать из немецкого Вальтера. Самой плодотворной в работе Блохина стала весна 1940 года, когда под руководством Блохина было расстреляно 6311 поляков, 693 человека из них Блохин убил лично.

Оно убивало всех - простых людей, своих сослуживцев, высших чинов.

Это он лично расстрелял Тухачевского, Ежова, Фриновского, Кольцова, Бабеля, Мейерхольда.

А вместе с Мейрхольдом Блохин в те февральские дни казнил еще около 300 человек.

За 20 лет службы дослужился до генерала.

В награду за "безупречную деятельность" получил в подарок автомобиль "Победа" и повышенную пенсию в 3150 рублей.

Блохин умер в 1955 году. Похоронен на Донском кладбище, на котором же безвестно развеян прах многих его жертв.

А на красивой могильной плите Блохина до сих пор, круглогодично появляются живые цветы.

С праздником".

Александр Тверской