De dunt, dunt, dunt,…. de da da dunt….

If you’ve never seen it, the movie, The Hunt For Red October is excellent, one of the few adaptations of a best selling book that is as good as the original material (accepting the usual limitations and short cuts of Hollywood).

Towards the end of the movie, with all the action done, there’s a funny scene where the Soviet Ambassador – having been part of the original bullshit story about Red October being a threat to the USA in order to get the Yanks to help sink it – has to admit to the US Secretary of Defence another terrible truth, to which the Secretary has only one answer:

And so we come to another edition of my original post..The Mystery of The Dead Russian Oligarchs.…

Ex-Putin Ally Plunges to His Death ‘From a Great Height’ at Moscow Aviation Institute:

An aviation expert has become the latest Russian official to fall to his death in mysterious circumstances.

Anatoly Gerashchenko, the former head of Moscow’s Aviation Institute (MAI), died in a mysterious fall inside the institute’s headquarters in the Russian capital on Tuesday.

The organization’s press office released a statement describing the 73-year-old’s death as “the result of an accident,” adding that his untimely demise was a “a colossal loss for the MAI and the scientific and pedagogical community.”

Russian news outlet Izvestia, citing an unnamed source, reported that Gerashchenko “fell from a great height” and careened down several flights of stairs. He was reportedly pronounced dead at the scene.

AYFKM?

Seriously. Can’t we go back to Polonium-210 poisoning? It’s so much more elegant in terms of “You know who did this – and you can’t prove it”

Ok, this is not jumping out of a window but still….

Funnily enough the Soviet Ambassador in that clip is named Andrei.

Hey, I think the lyrics can be easily re-worked.