In 1949 some friends and I came upon a noteworthy news item in Nature, a magazine of the Academy of Sciences. It reported in tiny type that in the course of excavation on the Kolymna River a subterranean ice lens had been discovered which was actually a frozen stream – and in it were found specimens of prehistoric fauna some tens of thousands of years old. Whether fish or salamander, these were preserved in so fresh a state, the scientific correspondent reported, that those present immediately broke open the ice encasing the specimens and devoured them with relish on the spot.
Could it be that Russian affairs are going bad again?
“Could it be that Russian affairs are going bad again?”” Could be. During the siege of Lenningrad in 1941/42 things got so bad the Russkies started eating each other. History repeating itself?