ABSTRACT

Zhirinovksy is of relevance to the present book because (Frazer and Lancelle, p. 149):

He prides himself on being an expert in geography, which, as he put it, is his favourite occupation. He once gave the former French diplomat Rolf Gauffin a map with the new frontiers of Central Europe drawn on it. He signed it-just as Stalin signed a map showing the partition of Poland in the German-Soviet pact of 1939.