Fleming, James Bond’s father, called the Bulgarians trackers and murderers

The main executioner of SMERSH (“Death to spies”)

it’s called granite

For the first time since 1944, we had the opportunity to meet James Bond face to face thanks to Kevork Kevorkian’s publisher, Zodiac VN, which in 1990 published the novel From Russia with Love.

And so we realized that its author Ian Fleming definitely did not love Bulgaria or the Bulgarians. Otherwise I wouldn’t call them faceless, stinky, short-legged, petty gangsters, murderers, and so on.

Fleming, as you know, is an English writer best known as the father of James Bond. Bond, on the other hand, has been the best British intelligence agent for MI6 since 1938.

Shoot enemy spies with equal ease and finesse and strip the clothes of the super beauties, good or bad. His exploits and adventures are described in 15 books, all filmed.

In April 1957 the fifth novel in the James Bond series was published, titled From Russia with Love. The book is of great interest to the reader, especially since John F. Kennedy says that “From Russia with Love” is one of the best books he has ever read.

In 1963, a movie of the same name was released. It is the second in the James Bond series and also the second with Scottish actor Sean Connery in the title role.

In “From Russia with Love”, Fleming tells how the heads of the secret services in Russia (the Soviet Union) decided to purge James Bond. But not just to fly, but

Be killed

more humiliating

way!

Because, firstly, it has failed two important operations and, secondly, the services have an interest in increasing their authority vis-à-vis the political leadership of the country.

SMERSH’s main executioner, the formidable criminal apparatus of the MGB (Ministry of State Security), has been designated as the executor of the court order. SMERSH stands for “Death to Spies” and is run by the fierce General Grubozaboyshchikov.

In the preface to his book, Fleming states that in 1956, when he wrote his novel, SMERSH was still around and his overseas staff numbered 40,000. And that the real name of his boss was Grubozaboishchikov. How do the English break their tongue while pronouncing it?

The real name of the main executioner is Donovan Grant, nicknamed Rigia. But for the last 10 years it has been called Red Granite, codenamed Granite.

He is a boy

from fast

one-time sex

between German circus performer Donovan and a waitress from Southern Ireland. When her baby appeared 9 months later, the waitress gave her father and family’s first names.

While serving in the British Army, Donovan learned about SMERSH and that his main duty was to kill people, and he fled West Berlin towards the Russians. After thorough interrogations, inspections and investigations, a special commission defines him as “a manic-depressive type, whose periods coincide with the full moon. He is narcissistic, asexual, and capable of enduring extreme pain.

A “graduate degree” followed and Granitsky became a killing machine. “My specialty is killing people. I do it very well And I’m happy …”, he admits.

This sane guy has to kill James Bond. Here, too, Fleming puts the following words in the mouth of one of the Soviet generals: “A Frenchman named Fouche (apparently referring to Joseph Fouché, the chief of the secret police of the French Empire, who first presented the files). You have noticed that there is no point in killing someone if you don’t destroy their good name at the same time.

Killing this link is an easy job.

Everyone paid

Bulgarian assassin

You can do this if you receive precise instructions. The second part of the operation will be more important and more difficult: the destruction of Bond’s reputation … “

The file of the English agent, kept in the archives of SMERSH, reads as follows: “Little name James. Height 183 cm, weight – 76 kg. Constructed. Blue eyes. Black hair. Vertical scar on right cheek and left shoulder. Footprints from plastic surgery on the left arm. Versatile athlete. Master of pistol shooting, boxing and knife throwing. He does not wear a costume. Languages: German and French. Heavy smoker (note: specialty cigarettes with three gold rings). Vices: drink, although moderately, and women. He is considered incorruptible. “

To lure Bond into coming to Istanbul, they set him up with Corporal SMERSH Tatiana Romanova, who, imagine, is the heir to the Russian tsarist Romanovi family.

Tatiana is an extremely beautiful girl, and not just with a face like Greta Garbo’s. And with a tall, tight body and an attractive gait. Pretty and smooth fair skin with ivory shine on the cheekbones. With thick and well defined lips. With long eyelashes. And with her hair shiny and heavy as a curtain.

Abe as if

born to be

“Little girl

of Bond “

She becomes such a girl in Istanbul, where she is tempted to come and James Bond, who can also be easily conquered by a beautiful woman. On top of that, the fat hands of the easy life grabbed Bond by the neck and sniffed him slowly. He was a warrior, and when he did not wage any war for a long time, his spirit began to decline, “Fleming himself wrote.

And now, as the icing on the cake, the following “wisdom” appears in Bond’s head: “When the gods want to destroy someone, they first tire them out of boredom.

Executioner Granitski also comes to Istanbul, of course. Darko Kerim is also involved in helping Bond.

Don’t think he’s a soccer player from North Macedonia! No, this is the local “Secret Service” resident Darko Kerim, whose name comes from dark – dark, like the color of his face.

And it is he who tells the Bulgarians: “You have a whole squad for your little men, whom I call ‘faceless’. They are so similar that we never recognize them. Little gangsters, mostly stinky Bulgarians, doing their dirty work … “

English and American authors often choose the names of their foreign characters carefully. Both to sound attractive and to be real.

Here Fleming’s precision clearly betrayed him. He christened the faceless Krilenku leader. “This man is a gangster, a ‘refugee’ from Bulgaria named Krilenku,” Fleming wrote. This name sounds more like Romanian or Moldovan, but not Bulgarian.

As a cover, Fleming also started a bloody fight between a gypsy gang that was spying on Darko Kerim and a Bulgarian gang. Krilenku was shot at him. And one of the gypsy leaders tells Darko to send him more Bulgarians. Ten were killed tonight, but he wanted more.

Fleming does not specify whether resident Kerim complied with his request …