THE VIDEO: Russian Cruise Missile Attacks Against Syrian Terrorists

RT ^ | October 7, 2015 | RT

[Lurker]

TGA should be required reading here.

L

[ETL]

According to the May 2012 Sputnik article I cited, Ukrainian prosecutors closed the case because Yushenko refused cooperation with the investigation, declining to submit to new blood tests.

Perhaps, as he grows older, he's not as bold as he once was. Takes a lot of ___s to stand up to Putin's (former)KGB-agent-infested government like he did.

[ETL]

May I ask, what is TGA?

[marvel5]

Perhaps. On the other hand, since dioxin remains in the blood forever, perhaps he knows that new blood tests would give the lie to his story.

[Lurker]

The Gulag Archipeligo.

It should be required reading in every American school.

L

[ETL]

More regarding Putin-critic/journalist, Anna Politkovskaya...
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Death threats:

In September 2004, while traveling to Beslan, Russia during the Beslan school hostage crisis to help in negotiations with the hostage-takers, Politkovskaya fell violently ill and lost consciousness after drinking tea. She had been reportedly poisoned,[8] with some accusing the former Soviet secret police poison facility.[9]

In December 2005, while attending a conference on freedom of the press organized by Reporters Without Borders in Vienna, Austria, Politkovskaya said: “People sometimes pay with their lives for saying aloud what they think. In fact, one can even get killed for giving me information. I am not the only one in danger. I have examples that prove it.”[10] She often received death threats as a result of her work,[11] including being threatened with rape and experiencing a mock execution after being arrested by the military in Chechnya.[12]

According to Russian state security officer Alexander Litvinenko, Politkovskaya asked him if her life was in imminent danger before the assassination. He confirmed the danger and recommended her to escape from Russia immediately. He also asserted that former presidential candidate Irina Hakamada warned Politkovskaya about threats to her life coming from Putin.

Hakamada later denied her involvement in passing any specific threats, and said that she warned Politkovskaya only in general terms more than a year before her death.[13]

It remains unclear whether the warning by Litvinenko was related to an earlier statement made by Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who claimed that former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Boris Nemtsov received word from Hakamada that Putin threatened her and like-minded colleagues in person. According to Berezovsky, Putin uttered that Hakamada and her colleagues “will take in the head immediately, literally, not figuratively” if they “open the mouth” about the Russian apartment bombings.[14]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Anna_Politkovskaya#Death_threats

[marvel5]

I agree with the daughter, but saying the case is “unsolved” is certainly not proof that Putin ordered her murder. At least some of those responsible have received heavy sentences, which will hardly encourage future contract killers.

[ETL]

Thanks. It may be available for reading and/or downloading online.

“The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (1973) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is is an account of the Soviet prison system, based on extensive research and Solzhenitsyn’s own experiences as a prisoner in the Gulag. It is composed of 7 sections, and often divided into 3 volumes.”

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago

[McGruff]

@JenGriffinFNC: US Military sources say Russia seems to have been test-firing a new state-of-the-art cruise missile.

An she has pretty good sources.

[Lurker]

It is not light reading. I have an original version in hardback. I reread it every few years.

L

[ETL]

Actually, I take back the book reference thanks. Looks like the author (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) is a major Putin apologist. No wonder Putin loves the guy.

“It is worthy of note that Putin is a great admirer of Solzhenitsyn.”

http://www.ibtimes.com/russian-revelations-putting-putin-perspective-1561224

[Lurker]

Cut Alexander some slack. Compared to Stalin, Putin is benevolent.

His perspective differs for obvious reasons.

L

[ETL]

“Vladimir Putin’s Russia, however, has little incentive to continue acknowledging the atrocities committed by Soviet rulers against their citizens.

In June 2014, Ola Cichowlas, a blogger on Russian affairs who had worked in the Perm branch of “Memorial,” warned in the New Republic that with the onset of its aggression against Ukraine, the Putin regime was harassing the organization and intended to shut down Perm-36.

Cichowlas argued that while a State Museum of Gulag History had been established in Moscow in 2001, it addressed only the Stalinist terror. “Perm-36,” in Cichowlas’s words, “is the only former labor camp that immortalizes the lives of political dissidents throughout the entire Soviet era.”...”

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/putin-and-perm-36-gulag-monument_803864.html

[Lurker]

Read TGA and get back to me.

L

[ETL]

I have no doubt that it reveals much of the misery and brutality of what went on in the Russian gulags. But using that period to make Putin somehow appear like a good guy makes me weary of this late author.

[Lurker]

Your loss.

Have a pleasant evening.

L

[ETL]

weary = leery

[tcrlaf]

lol!

[ETL]

"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century" -Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the collapse of the Soviet Union...

"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'..."

"The more I see and read about Mr. Putin, in power since 1999, and his 'managed democracy,' the more apprehensive I become about the future of Russia and the safety of its neighbors.

If Putin believes that the dissolution of the Soviet Union into 15 independent states represents the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,' then it follows that Putin might well believe he should do something to repair the loss..."

http://web.archive.org/web/20090415000000*/http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html
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“The demise of the Soviet Union was the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century',” Putin said in 2005.

http://www.thetrumpet.com/article/11102.30640.0.0/asia/moscow-puts-the-soviet-squeeze-on-neighbor-nations
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"Putin said Stalin deserves statues in his honor "

http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131219/185734707/Putin-Says-Stalin-No-Worse-Than-Cunning-Oliver-Cromwell.html
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"'The Black Book of Communism,'; a scholarly accounting of communism’s crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone), and some say that number is too low."

Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
By Jonah Goldberg, August 2008:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100711090651/http://article.nationalreview.com/365528/forgetting-the-evils-of-communism/jonah-goldberg

[tcrlaf]

Statement:

Meeting with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu

Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu:

Four warships launched 26 Kalibr cruise missiles against 11 targets. Our target monitoring data shows that all targets were destroyed ... These strikes’ results demonstrate the high effectiveness of our missiles launched from a big distance of nearly 1,500 kilometres.

The fact that these strikes were carried out using high-precision weapons launched from the Caspian Sea’s waters, around 1,500 kilometres away, and all of the planned targets were destroyed