Today in my couse on Russian censorship, my professor Yuri Druzknikov was explaining to us the history behind the myth of Pavlik Morozov. In researching his book on the subject he interviewed a retired KGB officer in Siberia. In Yuri’s words, “he told me that he had personally killed 38 people. He said he usually used the KGB way to do this killing silently. He said ‘I will teach you!’”. Then Yuri related to us how the KGB prefered to do silent executions. I won’t relate it here, because I don’t know that the mods would like that very much.
But I have such a cool professor! Its also interesting when he tells us about his own run-ins with the KGB, such as when he had a particular manuscript published in London, and smuggled back into Russia, the KGB “brought me in to interview me and ask me a few questions”. He is a true genius at understatement.
One of my good friends studies Spetsna (unsure of spelling. Russian Special Forces) fighting. It’s very effective and scary. There’s a good article on it in the last issue of The Journal of Asian Martial Arts.
Dude, there is no way that I would go back to that class. Some kid could get up and close a window or something and your professor could just flip out and kill everyone in the room.
My friend’s teacher, Vladimir Vasiliev, has daughters. We think they might be pre-teens. When they get to dating age It’s going to take some brave boys to ask them out.
There’s a great bit on one of his videos where he says, paraphrased, 'First you cut his throat, and then when he is bleeding to death on the ground, to make his last seconds agony, you step on his groin." [/insert heavy Russian accent. All right, heavily paraphrased].