"Dzhugashvili also insisted Britain remains an 'enemy' to Russia - even though he sent his son Jacob to art college in Scotland."
and onwards goes another conspiracy theory.... yes, poor Stalin. Remind me to cry in my beer.
It's interesting how history is still so alive here in Europe. I was reading that when Germany and, I think, the Netherlands play football, the Dutch fans chant something like, "Where are our bicycles?" Apparently when Germany retreated during WWII they, in their hurry, stole any bicycle they could find to get the heck out of there.
One would think that there would be more potent things to shout..."You put granddad against a wall and shot him one day for no reason!". But if you think about it, when few owned cars, and when petrol was non existent, your bicycle was very important*. And it is a bit of a spicy dig, I guess, to point out that the once mighty German army was in the end reduced to scampering off on anything they could get hold of.
*A great movie is Vittorio De Sica's
Bicycle Thieves, which deals with sort of teh same subject.
