“The mutton-heads march in battalion columns
The regimental drums are giving the beat.
The skins that are stretched over these drums
Are stripped off the backs of the same marching muttons
...
And they do not even think that their real enemy marches along at the head of the column .”

The Song in MP3 (400 kB)

O boy! I just read this again, and how applicable it is since the murder of the two Phystech students and a couple more hundred people in their beds, in sleep, in Moscow, September 1999!

Assassination of Russia the documentary movie by Transparence Production, Paris, France suspect #1: KGB case investigator: KGB

download directory 42.5 minutes sound 1/2 - Russian stereo sound 3/4 - international stereo The movie is in the MPEG-4 standard, either a 38 MB AVI file or 12 installments of 4 MB MP3 files

What if?... Timothy McVeigh for President ?? Moscow News: History will choose who' guilty

Come see the Crash of USSR and #$%^&* in Russia
(#$%^&* is the Russian 6 letter word for DEEP CRISIS)

And remember how we learned how our friends would be passing away (Alexander Galich) .

Nathan Sharansky: Fear No Evil

On the Horst Wessel Song ...
Many people vainly mention this song having never heard or read it.

Estonia Parliament Ruling: Nazi Germany and Soviet Union were Criminal Powers, KGB is a Criminal Organization

Die Putinjugend: "Going Together" a perfect translation of the Italian word "Fascisti"

A hilarious song I Want My Significant One to be like Putin! (3.2 MB mp3)

The burning of Sorokin's books by the Putinjugend drew my attention to the author Vladimir Sorokin. Here is a link to Sorokin's novel (sic!) The Norm that vividly describes the life in the Soviet Union when folks were discussing superior matters and living their daily lives while chewing on The Norm - the stuff V. Voinovich called "the secondary product" in his Moscow 2042. The Norm brings reminiscences of F. Tyutchev, I. Tourguenev, etc. together with the odour of The Norm ubiquitous in the Soviet Life.

Quite a different novel - The Ice

An insightful review of Sorokin's works

For those nostalgic of the Soviet Russia: The Hilarious Anthem of the USSR (sorry, sodomized by Brezhnev) Check your Pampers and click (5 MB MP3) or read Sorokin's The Norm once more

My Carthage, The Evil Empire, must necessarily be destroyed! (in Russian) lectures on philosophy of the Russian history by Valery Illinichna, 1999.

Humor and flexible attitude have always helped Phystech students.
Many of you remember the tongue in the cheek TV performances "KVN", the traditional Phystech songs and other theatrical actions.
Here is a link to the Students Comediants (STEM) in the School of General and Applied Physics, FOPF.