Re: Lenin's archenemy, Krapnieks, resurrected??

I had memory to other Canadian gonzo journalists folowing Krapnieks
and Sarkana Tauta <Red Nation> He name was Andres Kahar.


[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Avo Savikas) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Dear fellow Sov watchers everywhere ...
> 
> The ghost of Latvia's most notorious and unsung communist
> revolutionary haunts his homeland still.
> 
> Take note of this recent spooky and savage comment (pasted below) to
> an otherwise pedestrian wire item by the Baltic News Service reposted
> on www.delfi.lv on October 23, 2003. delfi is a Latvian/Baltic news
> portal. Oddly, part of the comment/reply was English dialogue.
> 
> Anyone interested in Soviet holdovers might be curious about this
> recent
> development.
> 
> I trust someone out there has heard of the savagely notorious Gray
> Cardinal
> of Latvia, from those tumultuous days of the mid- and late-Nineties.
> For
> those who don't know The Gray Cardinal - aka Peteris Krapnieks - was
> leader
> of a bizarre communist-sex cult called Red Nation. He was known for
> his
> claims to time travel and as the true author of Lenin's core ideas.
> Krapnieks hated Lenin and maintained that Vladimir Ilyich stole and
> implemented his homegrown concepts. One theory in part substantiated
> by my oral historical research has it that in 1918 Krapnieks actually
> paid one of his young henchman to pay off one Latvian Red Rifleman
> "Berzin kungs" to assassinate Felix Dzerzhinsky so as to weaken the
> defenses around Lenin.
> 
> After a short burst of minor public attention after the U.S.S.R.'s
> breakup, Krapnieks disappeared in 1997. Many (including yours truly)
> just assumed the old man died. His cult, Red Nation, vanished as if it
> never existed.
> 
> Does anyone have any insight or theories?
> 
> In the excerpt below pertinent translations are bracketed.
> 
> As for the references to Guy Burgess (below), Krapnieks might well be
> referring to the scumsuckingly late Cambridge spy. However I suspect
> he is
> referring to a contemporary Canadian journalist with the same name.
> The
> contemporary Guy Burgess, a North American, was briefly covering
> politics in
> Latvia in the mid- to late-Nineties and that Guy Burgess followed the
> Krapnieks story (as did one other Canadian scribe in the region, but I
> forget his name).
> 
> Anyway Guy Burgess the journalist also mysteriously disappeared around
> the
> same time as Krapnieks.
> 
> You might well appreciate why this item grabbed me by the throat.
> 
> Anyone with insight or information please fill me in. Please feel free
> to
> contact me on or off list with any questions about Krapnieks.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Avo Savikas
> Independent Scholar-Activist
> Riga, Latvia
> 
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> 
> 
> http://www.delfi.lv/news/national/criminal/article.php?id=6606636&com=1
> 
> Zinas > Nacionalas zinas > Kriminalzinas [News > National News >
> Criminal
> News]
> 
> Daugavpili aiztur krapnieku [Fraud apprehended in Daugavpils]
> 
> BNS
> 23. oktobris 2003 05:01 Nosutit
> 
> Policija par vismaz desmit cilveku apkrapsanu, solot sagadat
> lauksaimniecibas tehniku un panemot naudu, aizturejusi 47 gadus vecu
> Daugavpils iedzivotaju.
> 
> [paraphrase: police are holding a 47-year-old man in connection to
> fraud
> involving agricultural equipment]
> 
> Par so rakstu sanemtas 6 atsauksmes
> 
> [There were 6 replies to this article]
> 
> 
> sender:
> 
> PETERIS KRAPNIEKS! 23.10.2003 07:58
> 
> -> "... un tad Gaijs Burzes [Guy Burgess] sacija- Es patiesam saku
> domat,
> vai
> vins ir tikai krapnieciski vai totali krapnieciski?"
> 
> [... and then Guy Burgess said, I started to wonder whether he's a
> fraud or
> a total fraud?]
> 
> "Laikam ka ne. Vins ir igaunis."
> 
> [Probably not. He's Estonian.]
> 
> "Iguana? You've gotta be kidding me, Krapnieks!"
> 
> "Estonian."
> 
> "No foolin'?"
> 
> "Madness in great ones must not unwatched go -- old boy."
> 
> 
> -END-