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Roads To Moscow

A lot going on today (2023-06-24).

I’m reminded of the nightmarish song by Al Steward, “Roads to Moscow”. It is the semi-biographical account of author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

The following video is age-restricted because it shows historical images of the battles between the Soviet Union and Germany, with Al Stewart‘s “Roads to Moscow” as the backdrop.

A more conventional soundtrack of “Roads to Moscow” can be found here:

The New York Times showed this image from Moscow:

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/06/24/world/russia-ukraine-news

Last night, this story started showing up on a few YouTube channels, and it was hard to tell if it was click-bait, but now all news outlets are carrying the story:

Another image from the NYT article:

I checked out many sources, including Russian state media TASS. Wait – won’t this article affect their credibility? When I think of Belarus I don’t think of cutting edge semi-conductors. In fact, this is possibly the first time the words “Belarus” and “high-tech” appeared in the same sentence.

And isn’t it odd that we never see these two in the same room? Could it be that they are the same person?