Blood for the Baron!

It's a nice theory, and, not to be pedantic, from what i remember it's "(d)zhh" and "k" and k is indeed blood - "krov" but iron is i think "utyoog"

But Jimbo your comments definitely make me want to renounce my former statement and investigate further!!!

Besides my Russian ain't what it was. Look forward to your next post!

In 1982 we were still looking to Russians as the bad guys of the World, so it all makes sense.

Now we say, "Tovarisch" and that means "friend".... So, no more slamming your shoes on my desk, you pinko atheist Trotsky-loving Leninist!

: Jahwol! That does it! Put the Wall back up and keep the capitalist, revisionist imperialists out of my country!

The Shads were more like hardcore Trotskyists than slothful former Bolshevik counter-revolutionaries (peaceful cooexistence? please..) sleeping the peace of the just only in order to cadge another 10 tonnes of herring off their so-called enemies (or flog 'em cheap oil post '73), much more in keeping with the revolutionaries of the 70s than moribund executives looking out of presidential windows moaning about ducks flying to Moscow. Or heineken on the cheap to appease the masses. Cyrillic did indeed make them look like the comintern war machine though, espesh with the SovMil's foreign policy games from 79 onwards.

Anyway, I'd be more worried about doing a As he was Ostland born and bred how did they de-indoctrinate all the GDR hokum from him? Mindprobe in the Z Force base?

Despite Helmut and Erich loving it up it was always necessary to know one's enemy... as if those WARPAC armoured divisions were ever going to get to the channel ports in 48 hours even with Scout's help. Moreover it was necessary to study - the usual caveats allowing - Guderian's two meisterwerks in case push came to shove.

Reminds me of a joke Jonesy once told me:

"Why are there 3 UK armoured divisions in West Germany?"
"I don't know, why... "
"To stop the Germans getting to Moscow in 2 weeks!"

Meantime back in the bier-kellar

"Running dog crypto-fascist lackeys of the capitalist-imperialist counter-revolution!"
"Echt ist echt, ATT ist ATT. Punkt."

I think you speak for all of us there, Quickie.