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A discussion in English of the week in Georgia (the one near Chechnya not the one near Alabama) Don't know what a podcast is? Don't worry, just click on it and listen. კეთილი იყოს თქვენი მობრძანება! თუ ინგლისური იცით, დააჭირეთ ისარს და მოისმინეთ კვირის საინტერესო ამბები
Don't know what a podcast is? Don't worry, just click on it and listen. That's it. Nothing scary about it.
კეთილი იყოს თქვენი მობრძანება! თუ ინგლისური იცით, დააჭირეთ ისარს და მოისმინეთ კვირის საინტერესო ამბები.
It is an oft-quoted myth that Deng Xiaoping ruled China holding no more eminent position than Chairman of the China Bridge Association. He formed and chaired the new body of the Central Advisory Commission from 1982-1987 to ostensibly provide “political assistance and consultation” to the Politburo, but effectively he served as the puppetmaster of the Politburo and his commission’s authority exceeded that of the Politburo Standing Committee. He was was also Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China from 1981-1989, which meant he controlled all the guns in the country, and he willingly cooperated with Premier Li Peng’s Tiananmen crackdown on June 4 1989. Unlike his successors, he was a hardened guerrilla commander with over twenty years of bitter revolutionary combat under his belt, who knew he could command the personal loyalty of remote “cells” of military loyalists should political winds shift against him. Many of his key political allies were his revolutionary comrades of five decades’ standing, or their children (like Li Peng). Control of the military hence was enough for him to control the country. I don’t think he has any parallel amongst modern Georgian politicians.
I don’t think Levon Helm was Armenian. He pronounced his name “LEEV-on,” although his family said “luh-VON.”
Are we splitting hairs here? His birth-name was Lavon, but folks had trouble pronouncing it, especially in Canada, that he just so he just assumed the name Levon. Another tidbit, His name and character was the inspiration of Elton John’s song “Levon”