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2007-07-21 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Putin channels Lenin: KGB/GRU counterrevolution proceeds apace

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Posted by lotp 2007-07-21 10:56|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Then empire is back. All hair Tsar Vladimir.

Posted by Jonathan">Jonathan 2007-07-21 11:31|| 2007-07-21 11:31|| Front Page Top

#2 nationalism+racism+communism united in one noxious ideology liked to Putin as hero.

That's a mix that is much liked by at least part of France's far right, that is the one that is primarily anti-US and anti-capitalist.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-07-21 11:44|| 2007-07-21 11:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Classic blood 'n' soil National Socialism, with its Hero/Leader.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-21 11:51|| 2007-07-21 11:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Putingrad has a nice ring to it, nyet?

Also, I was made to understand that Condi was some sort of Russia/Soviet expert? Hello? Condi?

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-07-21 11:52|| 2007-07-21 11:52|| Front Page Top

#5 I interpret "oligarchs" as a code word for Jews. All the other elements for a Fascist movement are present including historical revisionism, a unifying ideology which puts the state ahead of the individual and a cult of personality.

Dark times are ahead.

Posted by Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-07-21 12:12|| 2007-07-21 12:12|| Front Page Top

#6 I interpret "oligarchs" as a code word for Jews.

You are right, that is how it is understood here, and the bad press for putin is blamed on him taking on the "oligarchs".

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-07-21 12:50|| 2007-07-21 12:50|| Front Page Top

#7 For example, check http://www.ateney.ru/indexeng.htm

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-07-21 12:52|| 2007-07-21 12:52|| Front Page Top

#8 The world has gone mad. How did we fall so far so fast? Is it really so easy to manipulate the masses, in this day and age? Give up your guns, Give up your speech, Give up your rights! Send Us $19.95 and we will send you a book that tells you how getting suckers like you to send us $19.95 has made us rich.

You'd think with what we know, Free Men in Democratic societies would not so willingly enable all of this to occur.

Dark times indeed. If free men, good men (and women) don't demand action to stop it now - within the next ten years, it is going to get biblical. And it is all lining up fast.

I've always felt every generation had its kooks that said it was "end times" - but this time around, with NBC's it's almost seems possible.

Posted by AT 2007-07-21 13:07|| 2007-07-21 13:07|| Front Page Top

#9 (formerly RJB in JC MO)

I guess I don't understand the surprise in this by anyone. I personally have always felt Putin was an evil bastard and would do pretty much exactly what he has done. With his back ground and the humiliation he's undoubtedly felt while watching the former USSR disintegrate I'm sure he pines for the glory days of the reds. Add to this his obvious thirst for power and the short mans syndrome he suffers from and bingo, you have Vladimir Putin.

Posted by Frog Morton 2007-07-21 16:52|| 2007-07-21 16:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Add in also his control of natural gas supplies that Europe badly wants/needs and his bank coffers enriched by recent high prices.

Posted by lotp 2007-07-21 17:09|| 2007-07-21 17:09|| Front Page Top

#11 but does he really own a white cat?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-07-21 17:12|| 2007-07-21 17:12|| Front Page Top

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