Re: BEg2 chapter 15 Igor’s Limo

[Mark Kohut]

Igor, another oligarch Putin helped create as he rose to power after the
fall of the Soviet Union.

Semi-relevant aside beyond the text and sarcastic even:  Read about how
Putin controlled who got rich and who didn't, Putin that great leader of a
great country who is so misunderstood by most readers of Pynchon but not
Pynchon himself, who believes in the rule of Law as a few great papers on
his work mentioned here show. Rights matter to Pynchon or else he has no
vision worth encountering.

On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 1:09 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> “Maxine notices a Cyrillic bumper sticker, which as she is shortly to learn
> reads MY OTHER LIMO IS A MAYBACH, for this vehicle here turns out,
> actually, to be a ZiL-41047, brought over piece by piece from Russia,
> reassembled in Brooklyn, and belonging to Igor….”
>
>
> https://youtu.be/DfcyUecHcVE
> Nice bkgd music!
>
>
> https://1cars.org/10425-zil-41047-specifications-modifications-photo-video-review.html
>
> “The Russian design team chose a different way – they decided to weld an
> armored capsule, and then to build a car around it! Such a device is not
> completely suitable for mass production, in connection with this, only 25
> such armored capsules were made at the Kurgan plant. Of these, 5 were
> designed for fire tests. This unique machine of the Likhachev plant has a
> maximum degree of safety.”
>
>
> Produced in very small numbers for the highest officials / oligarchs.  Igor
> is a big shot.
>
>
> ZIL - auto manufacturing plant near Moscow started in 1916 now defunct,
> demolished & per Wikipedia slated to be a real estate development site for
> LSR, huge construction conglomerate.
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