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Название книги: The Romanov Bride
Автор(ы): Robert Alexander
Жанр: Историческая проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Romanov-Bride-169455.html
© 2008
For L and P,who continually teach me what really matters
PROLOGUE
Solovetsky Islands, White Sea, USSR October, 1936“I know that when you get right down to it people are not that easy to kill. And as I’m sure you are well aware, murder’s a very messy business, it really is. Oh, sometimes you get lucky with a single bullet, say, right in the temple. Or the proper angle of a knife shoved into a chest. But there’s always a struggle, usually some screaming, and then there’s always that mess-the blood, the splatter, the waste that comes falling out. Trust me, things get ugly even if you use poison. So, no, I can’t say I ever enjoyed killing. I only did it for the revolution-because it was necessary to clean the vipers’ den, because it was the only way to change things for the better, because there was no other way to move our country forward to socialism. As our great Comrade Lenin said-wait, now how does it go? Oh, yes: ‘There are no morals in politics, only expedience.’ Yes, that’s what Com
Название книги: The Romanov Bride
Автор(ы): Robert Alexander
Жанр: Историческая проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Romanov-Bride-169455.html
© 2008
For L and P,who continually teach me what really matters
PROLOGUE
Solovetsky Islands, White Sea, USSR October, 1936“I know that when you get right down to it people are not that easy to kill. And as I’m sure you are well aware, murder’s a very messy business, it really is. Oh, sometimes you get lucky with a single bullet, say, right in the temple. Or the proper angle of a knife shoved into a chest. But there’s always a struggle, usually some screaming, and then there’s always that mess-the blood, the splatter, the waste that comes falling out. Trust me, things get ugly even if you use poison. So, no, I can’t say I ever enjoyed killing. I only did it for the revolution-because it was necessary to clean the vipers’ den, because it was the only way to change things for the better, because there was no other way to move our country forward to socialism. As our great Comrade Lenin said-wait, now how does it go? Oh, yes: ‘There are no morals in politics, only expedience.’ Yes, that’s what Com
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