by admin | Feb 24, 2021 | Red Wolves & White Knights Excerpts
“We and the Americans abandoned Eastern Europe needlessly in 1945,” pronounced Jack Straw in the Saulire cable car cabin. Admiring the snow-covered peaks of the Savoie Alps, I paid no attention. Jack was a friend and a keen military historian. It was March 1985 and we...
by admin | Feb 24, 2021 | Red Wolves & White Knights Excerpts
I was about to enter the boardroom from which the country had been ruled by the communist presidium. There its twenty men, under instructions from Soviet advisors, took the country’s major decisions. In that boardroom, they had decreed in 1949, to collectivise...
by admin | Feb 24, 2021 | Red Wolves & White Knights Excerpts
“We want to transfer part of the Soviet gold reserves abroad. They need to be in a safe place and under professional management. The situation here is too fluid and volatile. If we leaveGosbank’s gold in Moscow, either our politicians will steal it, or foreign...
by admin | Feb 24, 2021 | Red Wolves & White Knights Excerpts
I shook my head in disbelief. For reassurance I stopped the car, to fine-tune the station. It returned. “This is Radio Vltava,” announced a male presenter in a slow, funereal voice. I immediately recognised the diction adopted on communist radio stations. I knew it...
