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Operation “Stray Dog”. Chapter 6

In the “Atrium”—as the generals lovingly called the main control room with a screen the size of a football field—it smelled of expensive Arabica, furniture polish, and the cheap deodorant of the night shift. Duty Colonel General Ivashov (call sign “Concrete,” earned for his impenetrable facial expression) sat in a leather chair, melancholically chewing a cabbage pirozhok bought at the General Staff buffet

Культура - 29.12.2025, 7:07 - Теги: Война, Литература, Политика, Сарказм, Технологии

Operation “Stray Dog”. Chapter 5

The Assembly Hall smelled of expensive jasmine tea, lacquered wood, and a quiet, polite, yet deadly panic. A colossal digital map of the world spanned one entire wall. On it, China was vast, bright red, and pulsating; Taiwan was also red (though with light cross-hatching indicating “pending return”); and Russia was shaded in a pleasant beige color, referred to in secret party documents as “Zone of Prospective Resource Development” and colloquially as “Our Northern Warehouse”

Культура - 28.12.2025, 16:11 - Теги: Война, Литература, Политика, Сарказм, Технологии

Operation “Stray Dog”. Chapter 4

The secure comms room resembled a spaceship built from Soviet tank parts. The walls were padded with soundproofing panels the color of “bureaucratic depression,” and the air conditioner hummed with the strain of a dying elephant. On the desk sat a glass of tea with a lonely lemon floating in it like a sunken island. Amirkhan Mousavi was screaming into the receiver of a red phone so loudly that the bulletproof glass separating him from the operators fogged up

Культура - 28.12.2025, 11:11 - Теги: Война, Литература, Политика, Сарказм, Технологии

Operation “Stray Dog”. Chapter 3

Amirkhan Mousavi, Deputy Chief of Internal Security for Strategic Objects, sat in a chair that creaked with his every breath, hating Zoomers. More precisely, he hated the chasm of misunderstanding that lay between his generation, raised on war and prayers, and this generation, raised on VPNs and memes. Amirkhan examined the printout. It was a photo of a kitten. Ginger, fluffy, with saucer-eyes. The kitten was sitting on a rug. The rug was white and blue

Культура - 27.12.2025, 13:57 - Теги: Война, Литература, Политика, Сарказм, Технологии

Operation “Stray Dog”. Chapter 2

Asadollah Alavi, now known as “Comrade Lee,” advisor on strategic affairs, stood by the panoramic armored glass holding a cup of soju. He was seventy-two years old. He had survived the Revolution, the war with Iraq, thirty years of espionage, the American strike on Fordow, and an escape through China in a freight car loaded with garlic. He craved peace. Instead, he got North Korea. Beyond the glass stood the pride of the nation—two “Hwasong-21-Super-Turbo” missiles

Культура - 27.12.2025, 8:08 - Теги: Война, Литература, Политика, Сарказм, Технологии

Operation “Stray Dog”. Chapter 1

The snow in Cambridge fell so quietly it seemed you could hear the ice crystals grazing the black waters of the Charles River. It wasn’t the snow I remembered from childhood—not the prickly, vicious snow of the Zagros Mountains that sliced your face like the sand of the Dasht-e Kavir desert. This snow was soft, sterile, almost weightless, like a Democrat’s campaign promise. It swaddled the MIT campus in a white blanket of oblivion, erasing the corners of brutalist architecture

Культура - 26.12.2025, 14:41 - Теги: Война, Литература, Политика, Сарказм, Технологии

Fordow. Postscript

On June 13, 2025, Israel attacked Iran. During Operation “People Like a Lion” (Mivtza Am KeLavi), strikes were carried out on more than 1,000 targets in Iran, primarily military infrastructure and nuclear facilities. On the night of June 22, 2025, the US Air Force and Navy conducted an attack codenamed “Midnight Hammer” against several nuclear sites in Iran. Among them were the Fordow uranium enrichment plant, the nuclear facility in Natanz, and the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center

Культура - 26.12.2025, 8:08 - Теги: Война, Кино, Литература, Наука, Технологии

Fordow. Solitaire for One Player

The old woman moved through the house soundlessly, like a shadow. She put the kettle on, cleared the plates, adjusted the pillows. Her movements had the automatism of a robot whose logic board had burned out but whose motor functions remained. She had no one left. Her husband died in the war forty years ago. Her son died in some alleyway. And now she had two stranger girls and a white antenna dish on the roof, looking at the sky where no one answered

Культура - 25.12.2025, 16:10 - Теги: Война, Кино, Литература, Наука, Технологии

Fordow. Zeynab

I close my eyes and see: there is Zahir smiling at Nasrin, there is Nasrin smiling at Zahir, there is Dad cutting a watermelon, there is Mom looking into a microscope, there is Rustam, whom I didn’t know, stepping down from the photograph and sitting beside me. We are all here. We are all in this box, in this house, in this desert. And it is so sad, and so unbearable, and so beautiful that I want to cry, but there are no tears, only dry sand in my throat and the memory of music that will be no more

Культура - 25.12.2025, 12:11 - Теги: Война, Кино, Литература, Наука, Технологии

Fordow. Anomaly of Rain

And for a second, it seemed to Nasrin that if this road could be stretched for another hour, two, a lifetime—they would drive and drive under this strange, warm, possibly poisonous rain, and the world outside would have time to change its mind about dying. And a line from an old song she used to listen to with Adil, sharing one pair of headphones for two, floated in her head: “Forget, forgive, and let go, our paths no longer cross”

Культура - 24.12.2025, 13:56 - Теги: Война, Кино, Литература, Наука, Технологии

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