Tonight on SBS you can catch a documentary about the murder of Bulgarian broadcaster Georgi Markov!

Markov was an outspoken critic of Bulgaria's communist regime, a position that made him an obvious political target. An encounter with a man on Waterloo Bridge in which Markov was nudged with an umbrella point, seemingly accidentally, took a deadly twist when he died three days later.

The "Umbrella Murder", as it became known, remains one of the most famous - unsolved - cases of the Cold War.

We suppose that the moral of Markov's story is that despite what popular culture is trying to insist, it is never a good idea to stand under a stranger's umbrella.

Ella ella.

Eh eh eh.

(We apologise profusely for what just happened).

 

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