Only in Eastern Europe...

Slawomir Petelicki just died.  Suicide apparently.

Petelicki was a Polish spy under communism.  He was one of the men responsible for attempting to murder Zdzislaw Najder, chief of the Polish language section of Radio Free Europe.  Petelicki's second wife worked at Y&R on Madalinskiego in the 90s.

Krzysztof Najder, Zdzislaw's son, was our creative director at this time.

Ed Assarabowski, who worked at RFE & Y&R Poland, was in the building in Munich when the bomb went off.  It failed to kill Najder but it did injure a secretary.

So at our Christmas party that year you had; the man who put the bomb in the building, his wife, the man who was there when it exploded & the son of the man who was supposed to be killed by the device.

Thank God Christmas is a time of forgiveness.