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And so mental radio was Out of the picture, and politically incorrect as well. Out of the picture in the West, that is -- in England, Europe and the United states. But the West often forgets that it is not the entire world, and that there is vital activity elsewhere. And elsewhere in the world, too, are different people -- who might think differently about things, and do different things in ways not thought of or even permitted in the West. One such different person was Bernard Bernardovich Kazhinski who, in 1919, was a young student living and studying in the city of Tiflis in the south-eastern European country of Georgia -- which is found bordering on the Black Sea and next to Turkey. The beautiful country of Georgia is also to the south of Russia where, in 1917, the Russian Revolution had taken place and ended up putting Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in complete totalitarian power. Lenin soon adopted policies of "expansionism." And in 1923, Georgia was to be added to the newly forming Soviet Empire as the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic -- and Tiflis was thenceforth to be called Tbilisi. But still back in 1919, the young Kazhinski had an experience -- essentially one of those small things many experience but quickly forget about, and it was because of that experience that a set of novel circumstances was shortly to arise.