{"id":7027,"date":"2018-03-28T08:21:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T06:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7027"},"modified":"2018-03-28T08:23:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T06:23:36","slug":"7027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/7027\/","title":{"rendered":"Quelle Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This amused:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-cards=\"hidden\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The French-Bulgarian literary critic and semiotician Julia Kristeva has just been revealed as a former collaborator of the Bulgarian State Security, First Main Directorate (foreign intelligence). Recruited in 1971 in Paris, under the code-name Sabina. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QYAReQp78D\">https:\/\/t.co\/QYAReQp78D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dimiter Kenarov (@dkenarov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dkenarov\/status\/978599585399656448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This is astonishing!&#8221;<\/em> say people in the responses underneath. Sure, a French-Bulgarian academic studying liberal arts in Paris in the 1970s turning out to be a die-hard lefty working for the communists is just incredible, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Now I have no idea who this woman is and perhaps she did or said things which had everyone believing she was a loyal follower of Hayek, Adam Smith, and Ayn Rand but I doubt it. Shit, even today it&#8217;s a fair bet most academics on Paris&#8217; left bank are hardcore lefties if not out-and-out communists mourning the day the Eastern Bloc collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>What will be interesting is whether these revelations will see her hounded out of polite society. I highly doubt it. She&#8217;ll be given a sympathetic interview with softball questions and with a smile and an airy wave of the hand the entire thing will be dismissed as happening a long time ago and it was all a bit of a giggle anyway. I doubt this will dent her social and professional standing one jot, at least in the west. The Bulgarians might think a little differently however, especially those who lost family members at the hands of the Bulgarian communists.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, she ought to be grateful she only collaborated with the security services of a brutal communist regime since the age of 30, and wasn&#8217;t a teenager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/6735\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">working a telephone exchange<\/a> when the Nazis were in town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This amused: The French-Bulgarian literary critic and semiotician Julia Kristeva has just been revealed as a former collaborator of the Bulgarian State Security, First Main Directorate (foreign intelligence). Recruited in 1971 in Paris, under the code-name Sabina. https:\/\/t.co\/QYAReQp78D \u2014 Dimiter &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/7027\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67,28,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7029,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027\/revisions\/7029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}