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Is there any connection between Gaidar and Berezovsky

Egor Gaidar was a politician during the early 1990s, so he probably has his share of Berezovskiy money in his Swiss bank account.

Interesting thing about Gaidar - he is the grandson of the communist author Arkady Gaidar (Golikov), who fought at 15 during the Russian revolution, and even at that tender age - as a platoon commander - participated in round-ups and murders of peasants. After the revolution he wrote cloyingly sick novels with Holden Caulfield-style young commies. He was pretty much an icon for Bolsheviks, and probably the reason his grandson got elected in the early 1990s.

Supposedly Arkady Gaidar died in battle during the early days of WW II, but in 1979 his biographer (Glushchenko), while looking into the "official" heroic version of Gaidar's death, found some contrary evidence. There was an old woman in the Ukraine who claimed Arkady Gaidar wasn't killed by the Germans, but hanged as a deserter. Supposedly hid out for a month in her root cellar, and she even had momentos and notebooks from the author. She stated that he was picked up by an NKVD squad, and went kicking and screaming.

When Glushchenko presented his work on Gaidar for review, he was asked by a high-level, commie bureaucrat if he was tired of living a peaceful life, and so the biographer decided to drop that angle.

Given Egor Gaidar's heroic genetic heritage, I wonder if he isn't faking it for a political comeback.

Now watch him go and die of Po-210 poisoning just to make me look bad ;-)