Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Dmitri Volkogonov

Born: March 22, 1928
Died: December 6, 1995 (aged 67)
Bio: Dmitri Antonovich Volkogonov was a Russian historian and colonel general who was head of the Soviet military's psychological warfare department. After research in secret Soviet archives, he published biographies of Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin, among others.
Known for:
- Lenin (1994)
- Stalin (1988)
- Trotsky : the eternal revolutionary (1992)
- Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy