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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
- In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
- By: George Saunders
- Narrated by: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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For the last 20 years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us....
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An innovative and fresh listening experience
- By Scott Garrioch on 01-14-21
By: George Saunders
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 2
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 27 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....
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I wish Jordan B. Peterson could have narrated
- By Lukas Kubik on 11-17-20
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky Collection: The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and Notes from the Underground
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Michael A. Harding
- Length: 96 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Step into the rich history and culture of Mother Russia with this classic collection by esteemed writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. With his penchant for gripping prose and powerful themes that unmasked the social struggles and intellectual clashes of his day....
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Voices
- By Courtney Duvall on 01-18-23
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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Vintage Classics)
- By: Nikolai Gogol
- Narrated by: Peter Batchelor
- Length: 17 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Using, or rather mimicking, traditional forms of storytelling, Gogol created stories that are complete within themselves and only tangentially connected to a meaning or moral.
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Gogol's Brilliant, but the recording is messy
- By Nom de Guerre on 10-08-24
By: Nikolai Gogol
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Illuminations
- Essays and Reflections
- By: Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht’s epic theater....
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finally
- By Anonymous User on 12-08-21
By: Walter Benjamin, and others
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Stalingrad
- By: Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler - translator, Elizabeth Chandler - translator
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh, Elliot Levey
- Length: 37 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The story told in Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad unfolds across the length and breadth of Russia and Europe. At the heart of the novel is the Shaposhnikov family. Even as the Germans advance, the matriarch, Alexandra Vladimirovna, refuses to leave Stalingrad.
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One of the best audiobooks of all time
- By Tim on 09-10-24
By: Vasily Grossman, and others
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
- In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
- By: George Saunders
- Narrated by: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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For the last 20 years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us....
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An innovative and fresh listening experience
- By Scott Garrioch on 01-14-21
By: George Saunders
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 2
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 27 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....
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I wish Jordan B. Peterson could have narrated
- By Lukas Kubik on 11-17-20
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky Collection: The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and Notes from the Underground
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Michael A. Harding
- Length: 96 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Step into the rich history and culture of Mother Russia with this classic collection by esteemed writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. With his penchant for gripping prose and powerful themes that unmasked the social struggles and intellectual clashes of his day....
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Voices
- By Courtney Duvall on 01-18-23
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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Vintage Classics)
- By: Nikolai Gogol
- Narrated by: Peter Batchelor
- Length: 17 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Using, or rather mimicking, traditional forms of storytelling, Gogol created stories that are complete within themselves and only tangentially connected to a meaning or moral.
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Gogol's Brilliant, but the recording is messy
- By Nom de Guerre on 10-08-24
By: Nikolai Gogol
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Illuminations
- Essays and Reflections
- By: Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht’s epic theater....
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finally
- By Anonymous User on 12-08-21
By: Walter Benjamin, and others
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Stalingrad
- By: Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler - translator, Elizabeth Chandler - translator
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh, Elliot Levey
- Length: 37 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The story told in Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad unfolds across the length and breadth of Russia and Europe. At the heart of the novel is the Shaposhnikov family. Even as the Germans advance, the matriarch, Alexandra Vladimirovna, refuses to leave Stalingrad.
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One of the best audiobooks of all time
- By Tim on 09-10-24
By: Vasily Grossman, and others
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The Master and Margarita
- By: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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The Master and Margarita is one of the most famous and best-selling Russian novels of the 20th century, despite its surreal environment....
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Very vivid and amazing writing style
- By Sina Beni on 05-04-22
By: Mikhail Bulgakov
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Invitation to a Beheading
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude." an imaginary crime that defies definition....
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Nabokov's Strange Violin Playing in the Void
- By Darwin8u on 10-28-12
By: Vladimir Nabokov
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The Possessed
- Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
- By: Elif Batuman
- Narrated by: Elif Batuman
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The true but unlikely stories of lives devoted - absurdly! Melancholically! Beautifully! - to the Russian classics....
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Dear Russian Literary Diary...
- By Darwin8u on 08-29-17
By: Elif Batuman
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Stalin’s Scribe
- Literature, Ambition, and Survival; The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov
- By: Brian J. Boeck
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature....
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A quick read with a good reader.
- By Jason G on 10-02-21
By: Brian J. Boeck
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Crime and Punishment
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Abridged
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Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St. Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret....
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Absorbing tale
- By Greydor on 05-11-05
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Le Bal
- By: Irène Némirovsky
- Narrated by: Irène Jacob
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Récemment passés de la gêne à l'opulence, M. et Mme Kampf décident de donner un bal...
By: Irène Némirovsky
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The Brothers Karamazov
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Narrated by: Jason Smith
- Length: 34 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a profound philosophical and psychological novel that explores deep questions of faith, doubt, free will, and...
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War and Peace
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 59 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia....
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Enlightening
- By Heidi Waxlax on 10-10-23
By: Leo Tolstoy
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Fifty-Two Stories
- 1883-1898
- By: Anton Chekhov, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
- Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and War and Peace: a lavish, masterfully rendered volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time....
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Better alternatives for Chekhov
- By Carol V. Macvey on 03-04-21
By: Anton Chekhov, and others
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Священная книга оборотня
- By: Виктор Пелевин
- Narrated by: Лена Левина
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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"Все, что я хотел сказать журналистам, я сказал... в этой книге".Авторская фраза, брошенная...
By: Виктор Пелевин
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Crime and Punishment
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Michael Sheen
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Abridged
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A century after it first appeared, Crime and Punishment remains one of the most gripping psychological thrillers. A poverty stricken young man, seeing his family making sacrifices for him...
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All Time Classic
- By Thomas on 10-22-03
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Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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After narrowly avoiding a firing squad when he was just twenty-eight years old, Dostoevsky never took things lightly....
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Appetizer!
- By Cam on 04-04-13
By: Paul Strathern
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Вишневый сад
- By: Антон Чехов
- Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
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Вишневый сад — последнее творение великого русского писателя Антона Павловича Чехова (1860–1904). Помещица Любовь Андреевна Раневская, вернувшись из...
By: Антон Чехов
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Las Almas Muertas [The Dead Souls]
- By: Nikolai Gogol
- Narrated by: Santiago Munevar
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
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Un caballero de industria ruso, Chichikov, ha descubierto que si compra a sus antiguos duenos los siervos muertos....
By: Nikolai Gogol
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The Queen of Spades
- By: Alexander Pushkin
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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Alexander Pushkin's greatest short story....
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Pushkin's greatness ruined by narrator
- By Ian Stamme on 03-16-17
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Классика русского рассказа № 2
- Классика русского рассказа 2
- By: Николай Васильевич Гоголь, Антон Павлович Чехов, Иван Алексеевич Бунин, and others
- Narrated by: Александр Клюквин, Всеволод Кузнецов, Александр Бордуков
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Издательский Дом "Союз" продолжает серию аудиокниг "Всемирная аудио...
By: Николай Васильевич Гоголь, and others
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Noches blancas [White Nights]
- By: Feodor Dostoievski
- Narrated by: Txema Regalado
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Con un texto elaborado en prosa poética, "Noches blancas" podría definirse como una tragedia narrada por un soñador....
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Excelente lectura e intereante historia.
- By Maria Cristina Aparicio on 02-06-12
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The Hedgehog and the Fox (Second Edition)
- An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
- By: Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy - editor, Michael Ignatieff - foreword
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history....
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The Fox Who Tried To Be A Hedgehog
- By Rich S. on 12-14-21
By: Isaiah Berlin, and others
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Похождения Чичикова
- By: Михаил Булгаков
- Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов
- Length: 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Похождения Чичикова — занимательный рассказ знаменитого русского писателя, драматурга и театрального деятеля Михаила Афанасьевича Булгакова (1891–1940)...
By: Михаил Булгаков
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In the Ravine and Other Stories
- By: Anton Chekhov
- Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Here are 11 short stories and one novella by Anton Chekhov, one of the finest masters of what is acknowledged as a difficult genre....
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Fine Stories about Mother Russia & the Human Heart
- By Jefferson on 08-22-15
By: Anton Chekhov
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Алые паруса
- By: Александр Грин
- Narrated by: Петр Каледин
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Александр Грин (настоящее имя Александр Степанович Гриневский; 1880 - 1932)...
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Удивительная история
- By tatyana on 07-31-24
By: Александр Грин
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Братья Карамазовы 1-6
- By: Федор Достоевский
- Narrated by: Алексей Борзунов
- Length: 42 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Братья Карамазовы - последний роман Ф. М. Достоевского, который автор...
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Some technical issues
- By Andrii Chemerysov on 10-19-21
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Notes from a Dead House
- By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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From renowned translators Richard Pevear and Lindsay Volokhonsky comes a new translation - certain to become the definitive version - of the first great prison memoir....
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FYODORange is the New Black
- By Darwin8u on 07-13-15
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A Rare Recording of Yuri Bezmenov
- By: Yuri Bezmenov
- Narrated by: Yuri Bezmenov
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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Yuri Bezmenov (1939-January 5, 1993) was a Soviet journalist for RIA Novosti and a former KGB informant who defected to Canada in 1971. After being assigned to a station in India, Bezmenov eventually grew to love the people and the culture of India....
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2000-2022
- By Jimmie Rodriguez on 01-18-22
By: Yuri Bezmenov