06-23-2010, 05:27 PM
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#133 (permalink)
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The Reforms
Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition
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Josef Stalin
excerpt:
Above, a candid picture of Josef Stalin, captured by Lt. Gen. Nikolai Vlasik, the dictator’s bodyguard.
Vlaski, Stalin’s erstwhile confidante, co-conspirator and son-in-law, was purged by his master in 1952.
After Stalin died in 1953, he was released from a gulag. Vlasik’s off-the-record photos of Stalin caused
a sensation in the early 1960s when an enterprising Soviet journalist spirited some out, selling them
to newspapers and magazines worldwide.
[ artsytime.]
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi
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