Two Fried Fabergé Eggs
( Two Fried Fabergé Eggs) With bacon, hash browns and white toast. Anybody who saw the Roger Moore 007 outing in Octopussy , can probably say what a " Fabergé Egg" is. It is a jeweled ornament shaped like an egg and crafted by Karl Fabergé as gifts for the Russian royal family, starting in the Reign of Tsar Alexander III. Such eggs were plot devices in the Roger Moore 007 outing, Octopussy . A mad Soviet general wanted to smuggle a nuclear device onto a NATO air base using a circus and a jewelry smuggling operation. Of course, the plot was discovered and foiled by James Bond. Today is the anniversary of the Vistula-Oder operation, January 10th, 1945. It was the penultimate strategic offensive operation carried out by the Red Army before the final assault on Berlin. This was a leviathan of over three million men with thousands of tanks and combat aircraft and tens of thousands of artillery pieces. That had been the great-grandfather's Red Army. That is not the...