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Sunday Was The Normal Day For The Political Awareness Session At Sea. Ordinarily Putin Would Have Officiated, Reading Some Pravada Editorials, Followed By Selected Quotations From The Works Of Lenin And A Discussion Of The Lessons To Be Learned From The Readings. It Is Very Much Like A Church Service.

The Most Wounding Insult To An Educated Russian Was To Be Called Nekulturny-uncultured-yet The Same Men Who Sat In The Gilt Boxes At The Moscow State Opera Weeping At The End Of A Performance Of Boris Gudunov Could Immediately Turn Around And Order The Execution Or Imprisonment Of A Hundred Men Without Blinking. A Strange People, Made More Strange By Their Political Philosophy.

The Control Of Information Is Something The Elite Always Does, Particularly In A Despotic Form Of Government. Information, Knowledge, Is Power. If You Can Control Information, You Can Control People.

When I Go To Peoples' Houses I Like To Sneak Into Their Bedrooms And Try On Their Underwear.

An Overnight Success Is Ten Years In The Making.