“What happened to your tan?"--Fang
"It was dirt." --Max”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: The Final Warning
“What dirt, what bitterness, what meanness…”
Blyukher during his interrogation by the NKVD in 1938. Quoted in Paweł Wieczorkiewicz, Noty biograficzne w: Fenomen Stalina, Warsaw, 1988.
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