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Banquet at the Theater of Nations. September 2021. Photo: russcult.ru “If Hitler invaded Hell, I would have considered my duty at least benevolently to respond to Satan in the House of Commons,” Churchill said in 1941. “If Girkin went to storm the Putin Kremlin, I would consider my duty at least to publish a benevolent column about him in one of the liberal publications,” I said a few years ago. In terms of personalities, history is unpredictable.