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Editor's Notes
- I am now going to tell the story of a great man and great father. I was originally here to see if I could squeeze a couple more years of work out of him but several of his staff threatened to bust my knees in the car park if I did any such thing. Having listened to his work stories over the years I imagine that would require 6 of them and three trips back to the depo for parts
- This evenings talk will be broken into three separate parts.
- Born in the small uranium mining town ofShavyagrowlerKazakhastain in 1926, Boris and Igor Murryevski didn’t have the easiest of upbringings.
- To poor for nappies, they spent most of their days in a mobile potty waiting for Granddad to return from the mines
- At the time, twin boys were considered freaks by the authorities and were highly sought after by the military for medical experiments so for the first 3 years of their lives Nana raised boys as fafafini to keep them safe.
- When the turnip crop failed in 1938, many families were forced to sell their children to rich city folk in infamous Shavyagrowler child auctions. Fortunately for me, nobody wanted little Boris or Igor
- With his eyes failing in 1942 and a shortage of metal and glass created by the second world war, the local physician was forced to tattoo on a pair of glasses on little Igor
- There were some happy times though, here we see a picture Father Yelstenlooking onlovingly as he awards little Boris his trophy's from the annual Masters vsPupils Turkish oil wrestling tournament
- A big part of who Brian and Robert are today comes from the firm but fair upbringing given to them by Nana. If the boys were well behaved they would be rewarded with extra goulash and bread but, when they crossed the line, she was just as quick to reach for the iron ladle and come at them like an agitated spider monkey
- Sport was seen by the boys as their only way out and they both had remarkable success given their diminutive stature
- It was on a representative rugby trip to France in 1967 that the boys mananged to escape from their minder and earn their freedom in the west. Here we see them a wild western party throwing of the yoke of oppression
- Here we see the young couple immortalised in wax at the Khasakstan oil wrestling museum.
- One of the most famous movie images of all time, De-nino, Walken, Savage who can forget those great men in the seminal 1978 war film. And here we see a kiwi reimagining of that image
- On the road, there were some reminders of those dark times with Father Yeltsin
- He turned out great and I would like to thank him for everything that he and fay have done for me and Deborah and I hope you have a long a happy retirement, not too long though, remember, your not earning any more.