MY LAST TRIP TO LONDON: THEY TRIED TO RAPE ME, FOR THE LAST TIME, THEY KILLED ME, BUT I RESIST.
When the Battle of Maidan broke out in 1914, the newspapers published a portrait of Waldemar Zelensky, and something hit me in the nose. Shit. I know that guy. He was the one who tried to shoot me in the head with a dart while trying to hit the target on the board in the game of "arrows," played in taverns across the United Kingdom. My God, what an adventure! I ran screaming from the house where Rosa, an old aristocratic friend of mine (it was one of the few phone numbers I still had in my address book from my London years), was begging for help, as I was in a very bad mood after being insulted by my father, who had come to visit his daughter for Christmas and slammed the door in his face. I had met him when I was working as a correspondent in London and had gone to the police. A bicycle had accompanied me home to retrieve my belongings. I had lost some of my belongings along the way, during a tragic odyssey that would take too long to recount. The officer confirmed the facts. One of the shots had grazed my shoulder blade, leaving a bruise near my ear. He then tried to grab me, but I broke free, and in the struggle he tore my coat as he fled. In his statement to the police, he gave his name as Waldemar Zelenskyy. He had been in the UK for six months as a refugee from Ukraine. He met Rose, who had recently divorced and married a lord, in a pub in Belgravia, London's most sophisticated district. The house was a mess. The children had gone with their father for the Guy Fawkes holiday (Halloween) and hadn't returned since. Everything in the house was in disarray, the dishes unwashed, and the sheets dirty. I was placed in the children's room. In the middle of the night, I was awakened by voices. A couple was arguing and talking about me, because the Ukrainian Jew must have been jealous, assuming something that wasn't true: an affair between the lady of the house and me.
"How do you know this guy?"
"He was a foreign correspondent, a friend of my husband's when he was an MP. He was very active in the House of Commons and interviewed Lord Home, Callaghan, Carrington, and many others."
"Did you know him in the biblical sense? Didn't you sleep with him?" I know the Spaniards and Italians well."
"No, for God's sake. You're a suspicious Jew."
Doors slammed, followed by shouts and blows. My heart sank. Then came a strange calm, broken by the creaking of the mattress springs in their bedroom. They were having sex. They were making up. The next morning, Rosa showed up with a black eye, and the Jew was in a good mood. I realized a fact that was confirmed by my long experience in Germany. In Austria or Argentina, Jews sought wives among blondes and white women and slept with the most exquisite. Revenge for two millennia of subjugation to European Christianity? Was this one of the consequences of Holocaust theology? The fact was that the destruction of Russia was already being prepared, attacking its Achilles Curtain, as well as the foundations of Russian culture and Orthodoxy. The Rosschilds, who dominated England, had turned the islands into refugees. But that morning, Zelensky was in a good mood. We played chess, and I won. This irritated him. Immediately afterward, he pulled out the dice. I fired first, hitting two targets, but he was having trouble hitting his target, and as I tried to pull one of the darts stuck in the round panel, I heard one of the arrows whistle past me. I heard it snort past my earlobe. I looked around and saw this guy glaring at me like a rabid dog.
"What are you doing, Valdemar?"
He muttered a few words in Hebrew that sounded something like this:
"I'm killing a pig."
This phrase had a double meaning. He wasn't referring to an ordinary pig, but to a "marra," as they called errant Jews, meaning those who strayed from Orthodoxy. Damn the Talmud. This guy wanted to shoot me like Saint Sebastian. I jumped up and ran to the door, looking for the first police station. I was broke, because Zelensky had not only wanted to kill me, but also stolen my wallet. I went to the consulate, and after explaining the situation, they gave me twenty pounds and a new passport. I was able to get to Heathrow Airport because I had a return ticket. Of course, I've had other misfortunes, but I'll never forget that Christmas in 1986 when I wanted to see my daughter Helen. I found out her address through the Salvation Army. They had moved from Hornchurch to another town in Essex. I knocked on the door, and poor Mr. Hugh came out to answer. He said he was very sorry, but he couldn't see either Suzanne or Helen. He had nowhere to stay for the night.