Soviet Union | Working Truth

Golden Rain, Fake New, and Dezinformatsiya

by RobertTownsend | Jan 23, 2017 | Deception, Russia, Soviet Union | 2 comments

‘Fake news’ in the US 2016 Presidential election. I have Facebook friends and relatives who repost without respite their unfiltered political or doomer or climate or religious mania. Used to be one encountered Uncle Frank once a year on Thanksgiving or at the 4th of...

The liar speaks truth: Deception and working truth (7)

by RobertTownsend | Apr 11, 2015 | Deception, Liar, Soviet Union, Wisconsin

Relatives visit the farm. Outside, the temperature was -25F. High winds swirled snow devils NW>SW across the south field. We had returned from X-C skiing. He picked up a book on Soviet intelligence operations in mid-twentieth century America. “That proves Joe...

Believers and fools: Deception and working truth (4)

by RobertTownsend | Mar 14, 2015 | Deception, Russia, Soviet Union

Believers and fools, liars and dupes The Executioner’s Son It is 1960. Two brothers, Russian Jews, meet in an abandoned warehouse in the Baumanskaya District of Moscow. It had been two decades since they had last seen one another. Blood under the bridge, my...

The Slavs, Tragically

by RobertTownsend | Apr 14, 2014 | Croatia, Germany, Publishing, Soviet Union

It seems idyllic We are in Ljubljana today and tomorrow, 14 & 15 April 2014, passing through Slovenia on our way to six-months in Germany; it will be research, more or less, for me, a pilgrimage, more or less, for Patrice. Patrice’s mother lived her...

A Letter from Istria to an American Friend

by RobertTownsend | Mar 21, 2014 | Croatia, Deception, Soviet Union

I apologize Tom, I’ve reread this morning the article by Naomi Oreske’s et.al. The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future that you’ve posted on your Facebook page some time ago. My initial opinion, that she misinterprets the...

Istria, January 2014

by RobertTownsend | Jan 31, 2014 | Croatia, Deception, Soviet Union

Bihac, Bosnia-Herzogovina Last week Patrice and I went to Bihac, Bosnia-Herzegovina for our ninth wedding anniversary. Driving from Bihac to Velika Kladusia (border town between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina) one encounters roadside memorials commemorating WWII...