😇Conviction👼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇺🇳🇬🇧💔💓💞💖💬🐂🐔🐍

I lived through Yeltsin, and Trump's behavior mirrors him so precisely it's disturbing. The same clownish performance. The same promises. The same destruction of a country while the leader talks nonsense and dances. Dear Americans, good luck.

In February 1990, Evseyev was struck by a car on a Moscow highway and died several days later. An unpublished book of his - on Zionism during Perestroika - went missing. Another man seen in the report, Konstantin Smirnov-Ostashvili, soon became involved in a notorious confrontation at Moscow’s Central House of Writers. He was prosecuted, convicted of inciting ethnic hatred and sent to prison. On April 26, 1991, shortly before an anticipated early release, he was found hanged there. The official conclusion was suicide. His relatives and supporters disputed it. And then there is one final, completely separate fact. The journalist who made the original 1989 report was Vladislav Listyev. On March 1, 1995, Listyev was shot dead outside his Moscow apartment. His murder remains unsolved. Three deaths. Three very different circumstances. No demonstrated connection between them. But all three names appear in the story surrounding this piece of Soviet television. Just sayin’.