The Bread of the Blockade
Nikita Tsytsin
1987
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The Battle Banner
V Safonov
undated
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How Young Were We
V Akhvelediani
undated
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Farewell: from “Scorched By the Fires of War”
Gely Korzhev-Chuvelyov
1967
This is my favourite amongst Korzhev-Chuvelyov’s works. There’s no mawkishness or sentimentality… there’s no pretence… there’s nothing but a ruthless and no-holds-barred depiction of a soldier’s farewell to his wife. Shall they be reunited on this earth? No one knows… least of all, them.
This is truth.
Such determination has won Russia its wars…
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St George the all-Victorious (Eternal Struggle and Eternal Victory)
Vladimir Kireyev
2014
The church at Poklonnaya Gora (the great VOV memorial park in Moscow) is dedicated to St George the all-Victorious. America would find out that Russians haven’t changed… just as they threw back Swedes, Teutonic Knights, Poles, Tatars, the French, and Germans, the Russians would see to it that the Americans left their rotting bodies on the Russian land. Yet again, Holy Mother Rus would prevail over the latest foe from foreign parts. The Americans would find out that they have limits… that they’re not arbiters of the world. Would these arrogant juveniles learn?
“Exceptional”… I think not… Anglos are demented toddlers sadly in need of correction and discipline. So far, their project is a failure… God willing, they’ll go back home, perhaps, wiser (I wouldn’t bet on that, what with Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Sean Hannity)…
BMD
Voices from Russia 
5 May 2015. Bart’s Crew Antsy Over Sobor Preparations
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Well, we had HH saying that there were difficulties and intrigues at the preparation for the notional Istanbul all-Orthodox Sobor. Read this… OUCH! Bart’s bunch has their knicks in a knot. Let’s not be coy… Bart’s crew of losers doesn’t accept the OCA or the Czechs as autocephalous Local Churches. I did some asking around… not only did I get this link (I can’t catch everything, of course)… many think that HH sending Onufry Berezovsky to the OCA Sobor in July is a “Message to the Phanar”. No one can sue me for stating what’s out there. I don’t know what went on in Switzerland… but HH is on record as saying it was difficult and this post just nailed it down. Actually, the Phanar was stupid in doing this… it just reinforced in everyone’s mind the notion that a hellova smell ensued in them thar hills. Look at this:
In Diplomatese, it means that all parties had a good food fight that didn’t degenerate into a Texas Steel Cage Death Match (that’s what happens when diplomats say that they’ve spoken “frankly”). In short, the Phanar showed its WEAKNESS. A strong party would’ve ignored it and the internet brouhaha would’ve dissipated in a week or so. My take is that the agenda isn’t nailed down… there’s more than a little disagreement on that… on top of the fact that neither the MP or EP have agreed to seat all the other’s delegations. This looks more n’ more like a “no go”… the Centre will insist on the OCA and the Czechs being there. Who’ll blink first? Well… if the fascist junta in the Ukraine goes down the shitter… you can see where I’m going. Bart will find that being a Friend of Langley only goes so far…
BMD