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The past tense is in reference to the historical event, it doesn’t refer to the present state of Finland’s economy.

If someone had a post titled: “How Trump caused a rift within liberalism in the US” the past tense would not imply that Trump no longer exists or that he is no longer a politician, it would simply be referring to the political rift as a historical event.

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Yep. Chuev conducted a series of lengthy interviews with Molotov over the period of 1969 - 1986 and he kept extensive notes about what Molotov attested to.

While I can’t seem to find an English language translation of 140 Conversations with Molotov, his other work, Molotov Remembers, is frequently cited as a primary source by historians.

Given that it’s testimony from something which was said many years prior to the interview I’d hazard a guess that Molotov was paraphrasing because the chances of it being an exact quote are vanishingly slim but such is the nature of historical work; often the eyewitness testimony is going to be somewhat hazy, especially long after the fact.

I personally would feel comfortable in saying that Stalin had actually said something to this effect, if not exactly word for word, to Molotov.

It’s according to Molotov’s recollection. From Сто сорок бесед с Молотовым by Felix Chuev:

Stalin himself, I remember, said during the war: “I know that after my death, my grave will be piled with rubbish. But the winds of history will ruthlessly dispel it!

Huh… that’s odd. This is the exact same names and order as a list which I’ve got.

Her ex-husband was supposed to be eating with the others who were poisoned (who happened to be the ex-husband’s parents and aunt) but he didn’t make it there.

Keep in mind, however, that this is a small regional community in Australia so the likelihood of people being part of extended family relations like this is much more likely to occur.

The ex-husband got very sick on a different occasion where he had a “mystery” bout of severe gastroenteritis where he was in a critical condition and put into an induced coma and at two points his loved ones were brought in to say their farewells to him because they thought that he wasn’t going to pull through, although after a few weeks he managed to recover.

She claimed to have purchased the mushrooms from a shop and when asked which shop by the police she declined to answer further questions.