Soviet Life

The World War II era produced many leaders of titanic determination, men whose strengths and weaknesses left an extraordinary imprint on historical affairs. The struggle between massively divergent ideologies, exacerbated by huge social changes affected by the world’s technological metamorphosis into the machine age, catapulted some individuals unexpectedly onto the world stage. This audiobook details the lives of two such men: Josip Broz Tito, better known to history as Marshal Tito, and Nicolae Ceaușescu, one of the 20th century’s most notorious dictators.

Spies are a feature of countless works of fiction in which they often discover secrets on which the fate of nations hang in the balance. Reality is generally rather more mundane as spies often gather low-level intelligence that only makes sense when it is examined by analysts and compared to information from other sources. Espionage provides clues to what the enemy is planning, but on its own it rarely changes the course of a war. Moreover, real spies are generally anonymous and not the bold, swashbuckling action heroes depicted in fiction.

Поначалу его звали не Ахмад-ака, а Ахмад-палван. Ни одно крупное событие в кишлаке не обходилось без него, все звали его помочь в беде и поучаствовать в праздничных соревнованиях борцов.

Каххар Шадиев, уроженец кишлака, уже много лет живущий в городе, получает телеграмму из родных мест: родная тётка сообщает, что очень больна и хотела бы повидаться с ним.