Man Without Shadow

Marika Rökk, who was banned from acting for two years for her apparent closeness to the Nazi regime, had in fact been working from the 1940s onwards for a reconnaissance network passing Third Reich secrets to Moscow, according to the Guardian newspaper.

Musarañas en la cabeza

Me cuesta mucho encontrar los temas para mi blog sin algún empujón que desencadene mis recuerdos y pensamientos. Los podcasts y videos del profesor Juan Fernández a menudo sirven como tales desencadenantes para mis historias en la versión española de mi página web.

Historia de una restauración

He visto por el Internet el incendio de la Catedral de Notre Dame de Paris y he leído que su restauración tomará muchos años y mucho dinero. Se me acordó la historia de un templo de la iglesia ortodoxa rusa que era muy polémica en la sociedad. Se trata de…

About Squirrel Patrols in Moscow

Once upon a time, when things were quiet in Moscow, the then AP bureau chief Caro Kriel found a fascinating story in the word’s very wide web, claiming that city authorities had ordered police details to patrol parks in order to protect squirrels from poachers. Like those nasty guys in…

“Workers’ Demonstrations” in USSR

On the first of May, as well as on other Soviet holidays that required universal shows of loyalty, factory and office workers, government employees, students and faculty members would gather in a specific location, assigned by the authorities, with flags, posters and portraits of Communist party leaders, and would then…