Posted on 12/03/2014 6:43:30 PM PST by lodi90
That’s a big dog! He’s like...what? Five thousand feet tall?
“KGB influence ‘soars under Putin,’ “ blared the headline of a BBC online article for December 13, 2006. The following day, a similar headline echoed a similarly alarming story at the website of Der Spiegel, one of Germany’s largest news magazines: “Putin’s Russia: Kremlin Riddled with Former KGB Agents.”
In the opening sentences of Der Spiegel’s article, readers are informed that: “Four out of five members of Russia’s political and business elite have a KGB past, according to a new study by the prestigious [Russian] Academy of Sciences. The influence of ex-Soviet spies has ballooned under President Vladimir Putin.”
The study, which looked at 1,061 top Kremlin, regional, and corporate jobs, found that “78 percent of the Russian elite” are what are known in Russia as “siloviki,” which is to say, former members of the KGB or its domestic successor, the FSB. The author ofthe study, Olga Kryshtanovskaya, expressed shock at her own findings. “I was very shocked when I looked at the boards of major companies and realized there were lots of people who had completely unknown names, people who were not public but who were definitely, obvious siloviki,” she told Reuters.
Other supposed experts — in Russia and the West — have also expressed surprise and alarm at the apparent resurrection of the dreaded Soviet secret police. After all, for the past decade and a half these same experts have been pointing to the alleged demise of the KGB as the primary evidence supporting their claim that communism is dead.
From the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, the Russian security apparatus Cheka (and its later permutations: OGPU, NKVD, MGB, KGB) had been the “sword and shield” of the communist world revolution.
“We stand for organized terror,” declared Felix Dzerzhinsky, the first chief of the Cheka for Soviet dictator Vladimir Lenin. In 1918, Dzerzhinsky launched the campaign of arrests and executions known as the Red Terror. Krasnaya Gazeta, the Bolshevik newspaper, expressed the Chekist credo when it reported approvingly in 1918 of the terror campaign: “We will make our hearts cruel, hard and immovable, so that no mercy will enter them, and so that they will not quiver at the sight of a sea of enemy blood.”
Unflinching cruelty and merciless, bloody terror have been the trademark of the communist secret police, from the Cheka to the KGB. Obviously, the demise of such an organization would be cause for much rejoicing. Hence, when the KGB was ordered dissolved and its chairman, General Vladimir Kryuchkov, was arrested in 1991 after attempting to overthrow “liberal reformer” Mikhail Gorbachev in the failed “August Coup,” many people in the West were only too willing to pop the champagne corks and start celebrating our supposed victory over the Evil Empire.
But, as Mikhail Leontiyev, commentator for Russia’s state-controlled Channel One television, recently noted, repeating a phrase popular among the siloviki: “Americans got so drunk at the USSR’s funeral that they’re still hung over.” And stumbling around in their post-inebriation haze, many of these Americans have only recently begun noticing that they had prematurely written the KGB’s epitaph, even as it was arising vampire-like from the coffin.
However, there is really no excuse for Olga Kryshtanovskaya or any of her American counterparts to be stunned by the current siloviki dominance in Putin’s Russia. For nearly a decade, even before he became Russia’s “president,” THE NEW AMERICAN has been reporting on Putin’s KGB pedigree and his steady implementation of a long-range Soviet deception strategy, including the public rehabilitation and refortifying of the KGB-FSB. ...” (continues at link)
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/8420-putins-russia
Putin is no Barry Soetoro. He will eviscerate Chechens.
KGB Putin’s goal to restore the former Soviet Union. In 2005 he declared its “collapse” the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th Century”. More recently he said Stalin deserves to have statues in his honor. The Soviets were believed to be responsible for the deaths of 40 or more million people, including those starved to death in the Ukraine.
I'm wondering if anything less than the Carthage Option will settle things down.
Russian demographics got all messed up with abortion as that country was a big pioneer in it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Russia
Yes, we the USA have messed up big time in this as well but they are much further down the road, the Russian Government has offered financial incentive for women to have children.
So, they may have a real problem with the Muslim Russian population growing much faster than the rest of the population.
In fact, it seems unavoidable.
So even if Putin receives adulation by some, it could be short-lived.
Try 2040, 2050.
A while back, there was a leak about the Saudis offering to stop sending money and arms to the Chechens if Russia cut off support for Assad. Since Russia continues to arm Assad, the Saudis have kept up their support for Chechen fighters.
"... Obama is a homosexual and takes cocain".
LOL, I might have to agree with the Obama part.
NYT...local Imam...whatever.
Best guess the moslems lied to putin.
{{{HUGS}}} Laz!
Check is waiting you for in Ferguson... maybe NYC... you go dare for see.
Yes it seems
~A while back, there was a leak about the Saudis offering to stop sending money and arms to the Chechens if Russia cut off support for Assad. Since Russia continues to arm Assad, the Saudis have kept up their support for Chechen fighters.~
Saudis are rather bold because they feel like the US military would do their bidding forever under any circumstances.
I guess they are going to overplay their hand sooner or later.
Prince Bandar would be surprised to wake up one day as he would be getting chocked by his own genitals down his throat.
All the useful idiots abroad supporting them including US government traitors will pay the price too.
This is a version of Cold War-muslim style, the proxies of those good old ‘super-powers’, being fought in the M.E., North Africa, and indeed around most of the globe. So long as one ‘super power’ supports one or two muslim terrorists, the other ‘super power’ will support & align itself with others; it also used to be known as ‘balance of power’. All in all it’s way too messy for all those concerned.
The novel (not the movie) Gorky Park has an interesting scene where the Chechyans are the chief Mafioso in the stolen goods flea market on the outskirts of Moscow.
and http://20committee.com/2014/09/25/what-if-everything-you-know-about-terrorism-is-wrong/
ROTFLMPO
Both Russia and the US are playing with fire by backing their Muslim proxies, since they have the bad habit of biting the hands that feed them. Mujahedeen fighters and their Arab backers didn't seem to show much gratitude towards the US for backing them against the USSR in Afghanistan, and the Saudis show their "friendship" toward the US by establishing "Islamic Study Centers" around the world which preach the most radical and fanatical interpretation of Koran to Muslim immigrants.
If Putin thinks the Ayatollahs in Iran will show him any more gratitude than our proxies have then he's a fool and a half.
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