{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "The most legit [the Mkhedrioni] ever got was opening businesses which claimed to be \u2018Economic Firm\u2019, \u2018Many Branched Bank\u2019, or...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/146629959803/", "html": "<blockquote>The most legit [the Mkhedrioni] ever got was opening businesses which claimed to be \u2018Economic Firm\u2019, \u2018Many Branched Bank\u2019, or \u2018Joint Stock Company\u2019. Anyone who invested in The Golden Cup Trade Industrial Company, heavily advertised on television, saw shares double within two weeks. When they went to the company\u2019s offices to sell their shares they found a note pinned to the door: \u201cGoodbye\u201d.</blockquote>\n<p>Christopher Othen, <a href=\"http://www.brightreview.co.uk/ARTICLE-The-Day-Of-The-Mkhedrioni.html\" target=\"_blank\">on early post-Soviet Georgia</a>.<br/> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http://sinesalvatorem.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\">sinesalvatorem</a>)</p><figure data-orig-height=\"375\" data-orig-width=\"500\"><img data-orig-height=\"375\" data-orig-width=\"500\" alt=\"image\" src=\"/media/tumblr_inline_o9hcs4imU81skdjyu_540_bacede38b60f.jpg\"/></figure><p>Amidst the fall of an empire, a roguish playwright exploits a clash of backwater nationalisms to become the dominant strongman of an eastern european outlaw frontier.</p><p>That\u2019s pretty fucking <a href=\"http://kontextmaschine.tumblr.com/tagged/gabriele-d%27annunzio\" target=\"_blank\">d\u2019Annunzian.</a></p><p>Also: roadblocks! <a href=\"/post/132628606178/\" target=\"_blank\">what was I telling you</a><i>?</i><br/></p>", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/media/tumblr_inline_o9hcs4imU81skdjyu_540_bacede38b60f.jpg", "thumbnail_width": 500, "thumbnail_height": 375}