How The Russian Writer Alexander Bestushev Marlinsky (1797/1837) In His Short Story " Blood For Blood" Anticipated Donald J(oker) Trump, The International Gangster. Through A miniscule Local Gangster ...., ,, One would think why build such strongholds if you intended to live at peace with your neighbours? Truth to tell, peace in those days could be worse than wars nowadays. Give a friendly shake with one hand and strike with the other,- and the fat would be in the fire. And whoever won was judged right. However, those knights were nobody's fools either. When they got people to build those castles for them they said it was to defend them from foreign invaders, but once they they had the castles built and had ensconced themselves in those eagles' nests it turned out that what they wanted was to sally forth on raid themselves. That's what the owner of this cast...