December 26, 2007
"Commie Writer" to conservative humorist
I was doing a little research for Herald Watch and ran into the bio of one of the contributors to News Busters: P.J. Gladnick. I was intrigued by the opening statement in the bio:
I am probably the only writer on NewsBusters to have received an award from the Soviet Union. It was for my work as an American correspondent for Krokodil Magazine which you can see chronicled in I Was A Commie Writer.
Click that last link. It's worth reading.
Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at December 26, 2007 01:12 AM
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That was an excellent retelling of a wonderful experience. It put a smile on my face to see Boca Raton correctly translated instead of "Rat's Mouth."
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at December 26, 2007 09:13 AM
I was in Russia for most of the summer of 1988, and none of this surprises me at all. You could tell that the whole stupid facade was about to come down. I went to a circus, and the clowns were more like comedians than our clowns, and the comedy was always a mixture of slapstick and political. There was even some investigative journalism on TV.
In 1987 a group of former Soviet Afghan War and US Vietnam War pilots met at my campus and those of us in the Russian department met (and drank a lot) with them. Many of the Russians freely admitted having flown in Vietnam, even though the USSR had always denied that their pilots were actually in combat. So, the official Soviet line was actually cracking even earlier, in 1987.
This was a really refreshing article to read. Thanks for digging it up, Henry!
Posted by: Scott at December 26, 2007 10:25 AM
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