Book: Real stories of assassination attempts and conspiracies against the Soviet leader

It only seems that it would not have been difficult for a Russian emigrant to pass himself off as a Soviet person. The fact that they spoke the same language is a persistent myth. In the twenty years that have passed after the revolution, the language of the inhabitants of the USSR has been enriched with so many new words, expressions and abbreviations that the emigrants often did not understand what they were talking about at all. A simple example. They put a couple of potatoes on the table in front of you and ask the question: "Where should the commander be?" Anyone who saw the film "Chapaev", of course, immediately confidently answered: "Of course, ahead, on a dashing horse!" And how could the former army captain General Wrangel, who has lived in Europe for the last twenty years, know this?