Two days later, following the mobile phone fiasco, Stalin, after a half-hour long conversation with the bank, managed to get them to send him a 'sentry' PIN machine for making secure transactions (not every bank has these available, only a couple, as far as I am aware).
Anyway, that was one thing. Now, something else has developed, something potentially rather serious, deadly, in fact. Stalin is a loud mouth, a blow hard. He shouts a lot of the time, loves to shout, rarely listening, seldom reading (and when he does read it is either frivolous novels or at best aged secondary sources from forty years ago: very few of them). He has no discretion, being an incorrigable gossip. Since the start of the latest war in the East, I have had to be very careful about what I say. Indeed, it has taken me many years to become a little wiser, to become discreet, to think before I speak. One must think about the consequences of one's words or actions, but Stalin doesn't. He is ruled by emotion, not reason. He is not an educated man. There is a noun in ancient Greek, σωφροσύνη, which means 'wisdom, prudence, discretion; moderation, self-control, temperance'. Stalin does not know this word, either its pronunciation or meaning, and least of all: living likewise.
At the start of the war, just after February 24th, 2022, Stalin sent Vladimir Putin an email threatening him with death lest the Russian Premiere ever set foot in his home village. This is a serious mistake.
I have been following the war closely, and in particularly looking at Vladimir Putin as a person, and what kind of man he is. Vladimir Putin is not a man to be trifled with, he is not the kind of President one ought to speak disrespectfully of, and certainly never threaten with death. This is not to say that one ought not to stand up to injustice nor kowtow to dictators, but one must always be careful about what one says or does. In every action or word, there are consequences. This is what got Stalin fired at his last job, because he does not think before he speaks, or acts. Moreoever, Salisbury is just down the road from here, not far at all, and it would not be difficult as former head of the FSB and current President of Russia to put a little polonium or Novichok about. Perhaps Stalin's only saving grace is that he's a nobody: just some backwards country bumpkin, as base as base can be. Even so, my grandmother always taught me, "It is best to err on the side of caution." As a result of Stalin bragging about his little mis-step, I fear I shall have to move away from this place at the earliest possible opportunity. One thing Vladimir Putin does, is never forget, specifically about people that try to intimidate him. Stalin is an idiot, and I am quite certain that one day, he will pay for his mistake, and I don't wish to be here when that happens.
Max.
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