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Comrade Lapshin
Hollywood and Stalin: Love without reciprocity (part 39) The end of the series, beginning read here .
In 1951, Alexander Dovzhenko was entrusted with an important state order-to "film" the book of American-Rostings Annabell Bukar "Pravda of American diplomats." However, finish the picture "Goodbye, America!" He was not given: the project was unexpectedly closed without explanation.
These reasons are unknown to this day. The author of criminal novels Eduard Khrutskiy, due to marital status, who knew more ordinary citizens about such matters, explains the decision to close the film with the reverse flight of Bukar:
One fine day, a charming American, about whom so much was fucked in Moscow, locked the door of the apartment with a key and, as they say in prison, “slightly”, i.e. Without things, she left the Government House on 2 Serafimovich Street, and went to the Manezhnaya Square, to the US Embassy. From there, she flew to her America.
Perhaps she was tired of listening to Aria from the operetta that her beloved sang, and perhaps she just missed Coca-Cola and Hamburgers. Everything is possible.
But leaving, she threw not only her husband, but also her son. Maybe this was conceived by General Reichman, or maybe this was part of the plans of his alleged opponents.
It is not for me to judge. When I turned to the corresponding FSB archive, a well -known person with a smile said that they did not have materials on this case.
Not otherwise they were stolen by an insidious American before leaving.
But, as I learned from the people who worked at that time in counterintelligence, the scandal turned out to be a grandiose.
Khrutsky is mistaken. Annabell Bukar did not run away and did not abandon anyone. She lived with her husband in a house on the embankment, raised her son and worked in the American edition of the Moscow Radio. Here is a quote from her speech on the radio in January 1953 - the program was addressed to listeners in the USA and Great Britain:
This atmosphere of the world, calmness and happiness in the Soviet Union is especially beneficial these days, when military propaganda and military psychosis dominate in many countries of the world, I can easily understand how all this is detrimental to the nerves and health of ordinary people.
At first, two “guards” were assigned to her - not so much guarded as those who followed her. They were on duty at the stairwell around the clock and accompanied it everywhere. Then (apparently, after the death of Stalin), the "guards" disappeared.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper announced such a call in December 1951. One of the sisters, Eleanor, told the correspondent that Annabell's voice sounded fun, she laughed a lot. "This reassured us very much, because the last time in her voice was heard sadness."
Annabell at that time was 36 years old, her son Mikhail was three years old. The sisters talked with his nephew, who talked with them in good English. "She said she was going to buy a Christmas tree today!" - added Eleanor. According to Annabell, the sisters, if they want, can come to her in Moscow, and her plans to visit Pitsburg remain "uncertain."
In December 1970, the sisters themselves decided to call her, but the call to the USSR was expensive, and the conversation lasted only 10 minutes. The sisters said they were going to visit her next year, and she was very happy about this.
Somewhere in the 90s, the son of the Lapshin Mikhail died in a car accident, and Konstantin Lapshin soon died. The fact that on his part began as a special operation of the MGB, over the years grew into a real feeling, and she loved him from the very beginning. Here in this video made on the slope of their years, this is clearly visible.
By the way, I was wrong when I assumed that Annabell Bukar probably did not write a single letter in her book. With careful reading, tracing paper from English are found, which the not too skilled translator could not translate. These are, for example, "practical jokes"-in Russian these are draws. So at least partially Bukar wrote a book.
Annabell Lapshin-Bukar died on April 21, 1998. The Pitsburg newspaper placed a laconic necrologist on this occasion.
She was buried in Moscow.
In 1951, Alexander Dovzhenko was entrusted with an important state order-to "film" the book of American-Rostings Annabell Bukar "Pravda of American diplomats." However, finish the picture "Goodbye, America!" He was not given: the project was unexpectedly closed without explanation.
These reasons are unknown to this day. The author of criminal novels Eduard Khrutskiy, due to marital status, who knew more ordinary citizens about such matters, explains the decision to close the film with the reverse flight of Bukar:
One fine day, a charming American, about whom so much was fucked in Moscow, locked the door of the apartment with a key and, as they say in prison, “slightly”, i.e. Without things, she left the Government House on 2 Serafimovich Street, and went to the Manezhnaya Square, to the US Embassy. From there, she flew to her America.
Perhaps she was tired of listening to Aria from the operetta that her beloved sang, and perhaps she just missed Coca-Cola and Hamburgers. Everything is possible.
But leaving, she threw not only her husband, but also her son. Maybe this was conceived by General Reichman, or maybe this was part of the plans of his alleged opponents.
It is not for me to judge. When I turned to the corresponding FSB archive, a well -known person with a smile said that they did not have materials on this case.
Not otherwise they were stolen by an insidious American before leaving.
But, as I learned from the people who worked at that time in counterintelligence, the scandal turned out to be a grandiose.
Khrutsky is mistaken. Annabell Bukar did not run away and did not abandon anyone. She lived with her husband in a house on the embankment, raised her son and worked in the American edition of the Moscow Radio. Here is a quote from her speech on the radio in January 1953 - the program was addressed to listeners in the USA and Great Britain:
This atmosphere of the world, calmness and happiness in the Soviet Union is especially beneficial these days, when military propaganda and military psychosis dominate in many countries of the world, I can easily understand how all this is detrimental to the nerves and health of ordinary people.
At first, two “guards” were assigned to her - not so much guarded as those who followed her. They were on duty at the stairwell around the clock and accompanied it everywhere. Then (apparently, after the death of Stalin), the "guards" disappeared.
Article in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in December 1951
Annabell regularly, for Christmas and Easter, called her sisters, and they anxiously listened to her voice, realizing that the phone was listening, tried to guess hints of a call for help in intonations.The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper announced such a call in December 1951. One of the sisters, Eleanor, told the correspondent that Annabell's voice sounded fun, she laughed a lot. "This reassured us very much, because the last time in her voice was heard sadness."
Annabell at that time was 36 years old, her son Mikhail was three years old. The sisters talked with his nephew, who talked with them in good English. "She said she was going to buy a Christmas tree today!" - added Eleanor. According to Annabell, the sisters, if they want, can come to her in Moscow, and her plans to visit Pitsburg remain "uncertain."
In December 1970, the sisters themselves decided to call her, but the call to the USSR was expensive, and the conversation lasted only 10 minutes. The sisters said they were going to visit her next year, and she was very happy about this.
Publication in the Pitsburg newspaper in 1970
Subsequently, she herself got the opportunity to come to the United States and visited her native places several times - of course, without her husband and son. The sisters remembered that Annabell bought goods that were scarce in the Soviet Union - for example, jeans for her son. She never expressed desire to stay in America. The US government did not bring to her any accusations.Somewhere in the 90s, the son of the Lapshin Mikhail died in a car accident, and Konstantin Lapshin soon died. The fact that on his part began as a special operation of the MGB, over the years grew into a real feeling, and she loved him from the very beginning. Here in this video made on the slope of their years, this is clearly visible.
By the way, I was wrong when I assumed that Annabell Bukar probably did not write a single letter in her book. With careful reading, tracing paper from English are found, which the not too skilled translator could not translate. These are, for example, "practical jokes"-in Russian these are draws. So at least partially Bukar wrote a book.
Necrologist in the Pitsburg newspaper, April 21, 1998
Nevertheless, she, apparently, was embarrassed by her opus. At the beginning of 1996, she heard, on the radio, an interview with the First Deputy Director of the State Film Fund Vladimir Dmitriev, who told about the decision to recreate the Farewell tape, America! ", Bukar called Dmitriev and asked to abandon this project. Dmitriev, in turn, convinced Bukar that this would not hurt her reputation. They never found a common language.Annabell Lapshin-Bukar died on April 21, 1998. The Pitsburg newspaper placed a laconic necrologist on this occasion.
She was buried in Moscow.