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Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get ... ”
Yevhen Konovalets

Liliputins. What, the heck, is this?
http://stihi.ru/2021/11/24/7101


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Life is unpredictable and full of surprises
The phrase "life is like a box of chocolates" is a metaphor that means life is unpredictable and full of surprises. It was popularized in the 1994 film Forrest Gump, in which the lead character Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks) says “My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get”. The metaphor compares life to a box of assorted chocolates, which is full of unexpected surprises and experiences.

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Assassination of Yevhen Konovalets
On May 23, 1938 in Rotterdam, NKVD agent Sudoplatov assassinated Yevhen Konovalets, the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, by giving him a box of chocolates containing a bomb.

According to Sudoplatov, the order to assassinate Konovalets came directly from Joseph Stalin, who had personally told him: "This is not just an act of revenge, although Konovalets is an agent of German fascism. Our goal is to behead the movement of Ukrainian fascism on the eve of the war and force these "gangsters" to annihilate each other in a struggle for power."

After delivering the bomb to Konovalets, Sudoplatov calmly walked away and waited nearby to verify that the bomb had successfully detonated. He then walked to Rotterdam's railway station and boarded a train for Paris. Soon after, with the assistance of the NKVD, Sudoplatov was smuggled into the Second Spanish Republic, where he briefly served in combat against Francisco Franco's Nationalists.

His sudden disappearance made both the Dutch police and the OUN immediately suspect Sudoplatov of Konovalets' murder. Consequently, a photograph of Sudoplatov and Konovalets together was distributed to every OUN unit. According to Sudoplatov, "[i]n the 1940s, SMERSH [...] captured two guerilla fighters in Western Ukraine, one of whom had this photo of me on him. When asked why he was carrying it, he replied, "I have no idea why, but the order is if we find this man to liquidate him"