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Old August 31st, 2011 #4
Alex Linder
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Originally Posted by Mike Parker View Post
This is more about tactics or bearing than strategy. From Louis Fischer’s essay, speaking as of his 1922 visit, in The God That Failed:

I’m also reminded of John le Carre’s fictional Soviet spymaster Karla, an unpretentious little “monk” who “controls the whole of Russia” from a room as “barren” as a “prison cell.” His only indulgence is chain smoking elusive American cigarettes, a subtle sign of his influence.
Contrast with portly chortlers of American conservatism.