There comes a point in every man's life when you simply have to pass the baton on to the next generation and retire. Apparently, two days ago Alexander Solzhenitsyn did just that, accepting a well deserved humanitarian achievement award from Russia's latest tyrant. Some might feel mad that he didn't say anything in protest against Putin, but he really did deserve the award, and at 88 years old, I think he deserves the rest.
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there's a joke in there somewhere about Russia's Communist Tyrants *refusing* to retire, and being propped upright and a wire used to wave their hands like muppets, but I'm too lazy to figure it out.
That joke was told during the Andropov days.
I suppose this is no time for the pun from NPR's "Car Talk" where at the end of the show the speakers cover their staff, including their Russian chauffeur - Pikup Andropov.
Sorry Jim, oh you of "Amazing Thrace, how greek the sound...." fame.
:)
No, it was:
Amazing Thrace
The olive oil
That comes from that fair land.
My salad was really plain
But now it's merely bland.
But good memory nonetheless!
You magnificent bastard! Now I'll never get it out of my head!
Thank you. :P
Am I the only one who read this and went 'Solzhenitsyn is still alive?!'
I would've, but I read the blog of a guy who hates the fact that he won't use his "moral authority" to protest Putin.
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