I have put together a new team for videos and podcasts, and we’re getting our shit together to start dropping knowledge bombs on you guys soon with what should be the most unique strength and fight sports show in the history of such things. You won’t recognize the names, because if you hadn’t noticed the names can’t fucking speak 🤣🤣. Until that shit pops off, I present this badass little podcast episode.
The table of contents to this audacious aural awesomeness:
Your friendly neighbourhood commie is closer than usual, down Mexican way for a 41 day holiday and getting some cheap dental work done. Subscribed to a local gym and it is sad to see the total tameness of the situation. Down in Chetumal, never seen such a concentration of fast food outlets.
Hey, Jamie!
Enjoyed the podcast. I have some information regarding the Grigory Novak fight in a restaurant. To my best knowledge, there are three different versions of what happened:
Grigory got drunk in a restaurant. Threw the restaurant waiter down the stairs and, when the police(called militia back then) arrived, they “had hard time calming him down”, whatever that means.[https://zen.yandex.ru/media/stratilat/kak-zakonchilas-karera-silneishego-atleta-sssr-5e864ddfed5b9b19f3bddddc].
In the second version he god drunk and threw the Red Army colonel out of the window. [https://chidlovski.livejournal.com/37449.html]
In the third version he beat up a group of guys, who called him a “Kike” (“Zhid” (Жид), dergatory for jew)[http://www.vestnik-evropy.ru/issues/march-1953.html]
Interestingly enough, all three version don’t contradict each other very much. Also the third source is from a writer, who knew Novak when he was a boy and and this version is from Novaks own mouth.
So I guess the story goes as this. Novak was drinking in the restaurant, some guys in a restaurant called him a kike. So he rampaged through the entire establishment, in the process throwing Red Army colonel’s(or just beating him up), who was either trying to stop him or was one of the guys who pissed him off in the first place. The story reaches higher ups. Novak gets stripped of his medals and titles and gets kicked from the team. His coach (Alexander Bukharov) gets summoned to Moscow (possibly to be sent to Gulag afterwards).
Ahhhhh interesting. From what I could find (which was all in half-translated Russian) it looked like they fought each other- Bukharaov is the guy I thought did all of the damage in the fight, haha. This makes more sense, although it’s fun to think of an ancient, tiny man trashing everyone in the bar.