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Originally Posted by Mike Parker
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.
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Contrast with portly chortlers of American conservatism.