From time to time, a library broom removes books from shelves, then they travel to shelves outside the library entrance, where they can only be purchased for 2 dollars. This is how the Australian strategy works, and these unlucky titles are then marked with the stamp “Written of stock” with the name of the library – e.g. Randwick City Library Service” or “Maroubra City Library...”. First of all, copies of damaged or old editions are removed, which does not mean that badly issued, due to the fact that here, on antipodes, the criteria of “modernity” - so they like to leave the title released on the shelf worse, but in the latest edition. Unfortunately, sometimes besides unique books are removed, which do not have a chance to resume, but can inactive number on the curiosity of a reader or a literary researcher. However, the decision-makers of “throwers” do not care at all, and sometimes the deleted books have politically challenging titles specified as “Russiana secret roulette” (“Secret rulers of Russia”), with the addition of specified a subtitle: How the government and criminal mafia exercise their power . It is besides unfortunate that this book was written by 1 of the last dissidents Lew Timofeyev, imprisoned even by the government of the celebrated Gorbachev Liberal, but luckily not for long. Timofeyev was known in Russia for his poems, essays, short stories, but besides released “Black marketplace Technology” in 1978! Well, the black marketplace was an inherent phenomenon of communism and a origin of corruption, which inactive plagues post-communist countries. From 1987 to 1990, Timofeyev was already 1 of the leaders of the USSR's democratisation movement, he besides published an anthology in the US “The Manifesto of Anti-communism: Who to aid in Russia?” (1991) erstwhile present - amazingly - the planet helps post-communists!? A volume of “Secret Rulers of Russia” was released in 1992 in fresh York with Alfred A. Knopf, and simultaneously at Random home of Canada in Toronto. And this volume was “scared” and removed from the library broom a fewer years ago, for the Covid epidemic. 1 can only guess who was behind specified reprimand, as the libraries here mostly work people from the left and were besides Russian, little visible since the invasion of Ukraine. And Timofeyev presents a compromising image of Soyuz's elite and post-Soyuz, in which the mob gangs were the rationalists of corruption. In addition, he included interviews with Edward Szewardnadze, besides with the erstwhile president of Georgia Z. Gamsakurdia, who in turn mentions Gorbachev's “batius”. Georgian presidents were combated by the Moscow mob. There were immense corruption problems in Georgia, and there is simply a chapter on the Uzbek mafia. Shewardnadze says that since 1980 he already knew that the strategy throughout Sojuza was rotten and the crisis was increasing. But there was no way out, and as the Central Committee said: “...we request meat or milk, but we cannot get distant from Marx...”, as Szedernadze mentions, and Timofeyev concludes: “The corruption of the apparatus, the black market, plus the shadow economy (shadow economy) – all this, thank God, destroyed the strategy from the inside...”, unfortunately corruption survived and flourished, as seen in many post-communism countries. In this book is besides an interview with the widow of Sakharov Elena Bonner or ex-general KGB Oleg Kaługin, who reveals to the West the nature of the strategy in Russia, or symbiosis of the organization with the KGB, in another words the “party-policy” system. There is besides a sincere chapter about chaotic privatization, due to the fact that the communists over 75 years of their power destroyed average human purchasing-sale relations. And Anton Koslow's MPs (an anthropologist surviving in Paris) reiterates the dreary subject of mega-corruption or party-to-maphic relations, besides recalling that Marx and Engels wrote in the “Manifest of Communism” that proletariat must usage despotic means to become a ruling class. And corruption in the apparatus of power appeared already in the first years after the revolution. Koslov besides discusses the “gangsterization” of the mafia, and mentions the countries where Russian emigrants formed gangs. He besides writes a small likable about Lenin, and the volume brings quite a few unpleasant revelations about Gorbachev, besides about Yeltsin. The library broom had many reasons to remove specified an open book from the shelf. There are even specified jokes: “How many years is the USSR behind Japan? Forty or thirty? No, eternity!” And this truly interesting, highly information-rich book (page 177) – here we just met a fistful of dives – removed.
And abruptly in 2025, I discovered a fresh volume concerning Russia's past “Kings of the Kremlin” (Kings of the Kremlin) carefully released in London in 2002, the feathers of Sol Shulman, a author and movie manager (born in Belarus), who in this book (336 pages) gave a panorama of Russia and its leaders from Ivan the Terrible to Boris Yeltyn. Of course, this panorama cannot delight the Russians, especially the sympathizers of communism, if the author yet reveals Lenin's face, his cruelty, and quotes a telegram dated August 11, 1918, in which the leader of the revolution orders to hang at least a 100 rich villagers – called kułaków – due to the fact that they resisted collectivization. They were right, the collective farms caused the collapse of agriculture in Russia, and contributed to the improvement of corruption, caused the waves of hunger, the largest in Ukraine. The Cabotian Marxism-Leninism explanation ruined Russia, multiplied the Bolshevik genocides, who, contrary to their name, had no majority, and gained power by violence. The author, publishing this telegram by Lenin, was not the first, as the planet had already discovered it in the “Black Book of Communism” (Paris, Laffont 1997, p.85), recording crimes, panic applied by communists. It should be admitted that Shulman described life, acts of cruelty, and even Lenin's illness in his book in rather detail, though more space was devoted to Stalin, whom Churchill called “the Caucasian robber” and Trotsky “a large mediocrity”. Yet with the aid of Roosevelt, this “melanoma” created a immense empire of evil which present scares us Europe from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok or Kuryl Islands... I wonder, which of these places is the first place to break distant from the empire? Shulman's parade of despots, bearing many photographs and illustrations, the index is rather a fascinating reading, indeed a pity that she fell victim to a broom. But on the back cover, the reproduction of the Vaznec painting resembles the Moscow foundation in 1147, what a blast! due to the fact that the historical propaganda of Moscow is that Moscow princes founded cities specified as Vienna, Kiev or Budapest, and hence the castles which formed large...before the foundation of Moscow! Indeed, the broom had to take action... Let us not regret it besides much due to the fact that there is simply a large mistake in this book (or possibly a deliberate lie?) that it was Stefan Batory who assaulted Tsar Ivan the Terrible, and in fact Ivan the Terrible who invaded the Republic of Poland without declaring war! And as Radziwiłł Sierotka wrote in 1577: "...the Moscow kite Inflanty plundered, and King Stefan was at the time at Gdańsk camp..."
In the same year of the Lord 2025 I besides found a 3rd broom offering in the field of titles associated with the Russian sphere of influence. It was Harvey Pitcher's book – “When Miss Emmie was in Russia” ( London, Eland 1977). These are like memories of the English governess Emma Dashwood in Tsaric Russia before and after the revolution... It is apparent that these memories cast a good light on Russia before 1917, not on the Bolshevik Country of Rad was created after Lenin's revolution...Ergo, according to the lefties or Russians, had to be sentenced to intervention by broom! besides bad, although Pitcher's book published in 1977 is in excellent condition, it may seldom have been loaned...
What do we find on the shelves for the exiled books next year?
Marek BaterovichDecember 2025
Editorial:
We encourage you to get the book by Marek Baterowicz published by our association - stories about the "war of Jaruzel"- It's coming in the wound.
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