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In 1985, the USSR gold reserve was 2400 tonnes. In six years, the number of ingots dropped tenfold, but after the August coup, the state bank of the USSR remained "only" 240 tons of gold. Former Chief of the Komsomol Viktor Viktor Mironenko later said: the party's accounts at that time were 11 billion dollars - money "made" Brezhnev on the oil boom. The Soviet Union has not yet collapsed, and the repositories in state-owned banks and currency accounts have turned out to be empty - dollars, gold, diamonds ... disappeared in October 1991. Mironenko himself said about money: "Somewhere they disappeared, they were probably stolen.“ … In 1999, a golden ingot with a stamp of the State Bank of the USSR appeared on one of the auctions in Hong Kong. In this case, the Chinese authorities immediately hit and the gold disappeared from the auction - along with the owner. ... In 1991, a series of mysterious suicides took place in Moscow. From the windows of their flats, three former managers of the Central Committee of the Central Committee of the CPSU jumped one after another. Everything involved a secret plan to transfer party money to private accounts. Who has earned the immense wealth of the Bolshevik Party that has brought the Communist party deserving of suicide, and why does this story harden in our time? ... I recommend that you translate the entire contents of the article under YT in Russian using Google. J.Š. 28.8.2017)
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“With great sorrow, my condolences go to his family and also to the extended family of Bata-men who took part in the building of the largest Czech investment in the Philippines in 1930's - the Bata Shoe Organization - only to give it up to help saving the Philippines,” says the Czech Ambassador Jaroslav Olša, Jr.
LAST CZECH DEFENDER OF BATAAN DIES AT 97
Mr. Karel Aster, the last living Czech Defender of Bataan passed away on August 13, 2017 after living last decades on Captiva Island in Florida, US. Karel Aster’s granddaughter Jenny Ellis Murray says: “Heaven gained an amazing man today. He was 97 years young. He will be greatly missed by those who were lucky enough to know him.”
Karel Aster was one from a group of 14 Czechs who volunteered to join ranks with Filipino and US armies in November 1941. Many members of this group came from the ranks of Bata Shoe Company employees, the first ever Czech investment in the Philippines that started in Manila in 1930’s. Smaller part was formed by Czech businessmen, and Jewish refugees from occupied Czechoslovakia. It also included personalities working in or with the Czech diplomatic service at the Czech Consulate in Manila. While all of the Czechs became prisoners of war, their families had to endure a life in difficulties, surviving in the wartime Manila with only scant resources, often not to meet their husbands and fathers anew.
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A BuzzFeed News analysis found that top fake election news stories generated more total engagement on Facebook than top election stories from 19 major news outlets combined.
In the final three months of the US presidential campaign, the top-performing fake election news stories on Facebook generated more engagement than the top stories from major news outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, NBC News, and others, a BuzzFeed News analysis has found.
During these critical months of the campaign, 20 top-performing false election stories from hoax sites and hyperpartisan blogs generated 8,711,000 shares, reactions, and comments on Facebook.
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The catalyst for this trip originated about six months ago when my 15 year old daughter, Barbora, had just had read a book about Stanislav FEJFAR – A Fighter Pilot’s Call to Arms’ – and we talked about the Czechoslovak airmen who had served in the RAF during WW2. From these talks, we felt that we should do something as our personal remembrance to those airmen. Because of the book she had just read, Barbora, suggested that we should take a sample of soil from Fejfar’s birth place at Štikov and take it to his grave at Pihen-lès-Guînes, near Calais, France. ...
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Hi - it's me, Nadya Pussy Riot. I'm asking for your support in an exciting new project - This wild theatrical experience will allow the audience to become a participant, experiencing exactly what Pussy Riot went through during our imprisonment - from the original Church performance, to the court trial and prison cells. We're going to recreate Russian courtrooms, a real Russian labour colony, solitary confinement cells, priests who shout about banning abortions and many more absurd, but real-life things that exist in Russia today.
We're hoping that this production will be funded by regular people from around the world who are excited about the idea of political immersive theatre, and we need your help!
Pussy Riot is working together with theatre company Les Enfants Terribles, and the project will open in London this November.
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