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I'm reminded of Brezhnev's niece Luba, who was beaten when she was pregnant by the KGB, to the point of inducing miscarriage. It seemed as much a signal to Brez
by dreamfactory 13y ago
I'm reminded of Brezhnev's niece Luba, who was beaten when she was pregnant by the KGB, to the point of inducing miscarriage. It seemed as much a signal to Brezhnev as to Luba that even he couldn't protect her.
- hga 13y agoInteresting. It being the KGB it's also post-Stalin, as in the period after which the nomenklatura agreed they wouldn't use Leninist/Stalinist terror against each other. Yet per her Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luba_Brezhneva http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luba_Brezhneva) she was a member of it, e.g. she describes the two-tier system of shops which kept the people extra busy (the counterrevolutionary devil finds work for idle hands) and the nomenklatura in tall cotton.