Deception by Edward Lucas

Author:Edward Lucas [Lucas, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781408831038
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

The star-struck Mr Anishchenko even organised a song contest in honour of his city’s most famous daughter. The winner was ‘Anna Chapman is not Mata Hari’ – a reference to a Dutch dancer and courtesan shot for spying in the First World War. It captures the nationalistic pride that Russians hold in their spies, though the doggerel lyrics are equally dire in the original Russian as in this loose translation.31

America’s symbols of freedom,

The model of democrats’ wisdom,

It’s a home, not prison for nations,

The immigrants’ high expectation,

You get comfortable life as a present,

The White House guys are so pleasant,

They can’t sleep without your well-being,

Without helping earning your living,

It’s not so easy as it sounds,

Sometimes all dreams fall to the ground,

One day that a girl is simple and shy,

Can wake up and find she is a spy,

If only poor Anna could know,

That this road is not safe to go,

Then you’d give up business for sure,

And go to the place where’s secure,

To Mars or better to Venus,

To meet no misters, no peers,

To look at the earth from a distance,

But suffer from lonely existence,

The world is full of secrets, believe me,

You cannot get it, just leave it!

You don’t want surprises? – keep an eye open!

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