>and Koba (as Stalin was sometimes affectionately known). The live representation of old Russian anecdote about what West thinks about Russians. ;) The anecdo

>and Koba (as Stalin was sometimes affectionately known). The live representation of old Russian anecdote about what West thinks about Russians. ;) The anecdote is one-liner: History teacher in English school "...tsar Ivan Groznyj who was nicknamed Vasil'evich for his brutality". ("Groznyj" means "fearful" and "Vasil'evich" is a patronymic name) Koba was a nickname of Stalin during his Tsarist Russia work with Bolsheviks. So to refer to Stalin as "Koba" is about to refer to Obama as "Barry". Anyway, 1984 was about Britain and is a prediction based on what Blair endured working for BBC during WWII years.