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"Galina "Red" Reznikov: All I wanted was to eat the chicken that is smarter than other chickens and to absorb its power. And make a nice Kiev."
"Art: Where'd you learn to speak English so well?"
"Archie/Wanda (recalling Russian words they know): Glasnost. Molotov. Blinis. Lenin. Pushkin. Chicken Kiev. Dostoyevsky. Roubles. Vladivostok."
"Roger: They have chicken Kiev. The butter squirts everywhere."
"Brent: I mean, there's chicken, uh, I like the fried element to it, big fan of fried. But then some kind of goop oozed out of it. Not a big fan of goop."
"Galina "Red" Reznikov: No more processed chicken that looks like a hockey puck and tastes like … wet paper. Real chicken Kiev."
": Mikhail Bulgakov. The Master and Margarita"
"Make cutlets de volaille for her. / Anything but cutlets de volaille! It's what chanteuses eat, cutlets de volaille."
": Arkady Averchenko. A woman in a restaurant"
"Question: What has feathers and glows in the dark? Answer: Chicken Kiev."
"And, really, can one let chicken cutlets de volaille perish?"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.