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2003 года


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  1. Стихотворения
  2. Часто задаваемые вопросы
  3. Статья
Стихотворения 
QUEEN ELISABETH
Oh dearest Bess,
I like your dress;
Oh sweetest Liz,
I like your phiz;
Oh dearest Queen,
I've never seen
A face more like
A soup-tureen.
(Anon.)


POOR BEASTS!
The horse and mule live 30 years
And nothing know of wines and beers.
The goat and sheep at 20 die
And never taste of Scotch or Rye.
The cow drinks water by the ton
And at 18 is mostly done.
The dog at 15 cashes in
Without the aid of rum and gin.
The cat in milk and water soaks
And then in 12 short years it croaks.
The modest, sober, bone-dry hen
Lays eggs for nogs, then dies at 10.
All animals are strictly dry:
They sinless live and swiftly die;
But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men
Survive for three score years and ten.
And some of them, a very few,
Stay pickled till they're 92.
(Anon.)
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Статья

Stalin's impact on Saddam Hussein

On the 50-th anniversary of Stalin's death we have more than one reason to remember this odious (syn. disagreeable, offensive) and notorious personality and find out that his impact on the course of history and life of humankind is still present.

There exists undeniable connection between two tyrant leaders of the past and of the present - Saddam Hussein and Joseph Stalin. The best biographers of Saddam claim that there is obsession with the Soviet dictator which pervades (syn. penetrate) Saddam's career. They mention that Saddam has got a tiny private office where the President works until the early hours before bedding down on a military iron cot in the corner. The whole office is nothing but a small library full of books about one man, Stalin.

Saddam's life resembles and parodies Stalin's. They were born only a few hundred miles apart: Stalin in Gori, Georgia, in 1879; Saddam in Tikriti in northern Iraq, in 1939. Both were labelled illegitimate (born to parents who are not married), had weak and feckless (syn. useless, unavailing) father figures and powerful ambitious mothers. Later in their political activities both were suspected of being double-agents - Saddam of the CIA, Stalin of the Tsarist secret police - yet both believed in their own historic missions with Messianic conviction (syn. persuasion, belief).

"When we take over the government," Saddam said frequently, "I'll turn this country into a Stalinist State." When the Baathists took power in 1968, Saddam played a role of brutal trouble-shooter (someone who is employed to deal with serious problems) to his political master, General al-Bakr that was very similar to the role Stalin played to Lenin. Like Stalin he initially moved behind the scenes. After 10 years, he emerged in 1979 as President, just as Stalin, after 19 years as General Secretary, became Premier in 1941.

Saddam's cult, like Stalin's, portrays him in a variety of garbs (syn. dress, attire, garment), from Bedouin chief and plain villager in his trilby (a soft velvet hat) to gold-braided Marshal. But his recent emergence as a writer owes much to Stalin. Stalin's seminary education, interrupted as it was, was better than Hussein's, but both men became obsessed in reading and quoting historical biographies. Just as Stalin wrote poetry as a boy and became the Soviet expert on everything from literature to science, so Saddam has recently written a novel which has been anonymously but portentously (syn. pompous, prodigious, astounding) published. Neither does Saddam approach the sophistication or subtlety (the quality of being clever, esp. in order to deceive people) of Stalin, an outstanding politician with a razor-like mind and feline (looking, behaving like a cat) charm who was able to impress and outmaneuver those political titans Churchill and Roosevelt.

They also share the same paranoid brutality and belief in terror - or what Stalin called "one man, one problem; no man, no problem". Stalin, like Saddam, survived in power because he so terrorized his people that however great his blunders, there was no opposition left alive. But whatever his origins, Stalin turned himself by will and dynamic intelligence into a gradualist, patient, often restrained statesman, as well as a well-read history-buff (interested in history) who could debate the virtues (syn. goodness) of Marlborough and Wellington with Churchill. However well he plays western democracies, Saddam rules divided and diminished realm (syn. kingdom).

Striking as these parallels may seem, they make us analyse historical events and leaders of the past and find out how they may affect our modern life and even our future.

(Based on the article "An Unholy Trinity" by Simon Sebag Montefuore, Financial Times. Adapted by Issanna BEREGOVA.)

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