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To: jb6
"Not only that, after spending 30 years building and upholding one of the most despicable regimes in the world, he escapes his master's fate (the firing squad) and makes tons of money selling BS articles as some kind of "expert".

I would say his having been the Chief of Romanian intelligence makes him an expert in his subject area, don't you think? At least Pacepa defected. Putin, on the other hand, spent his life building and upholding the genocidal regime of the Soviet Union as an officer in the dreaded KGB...and now he's the president of "Russia." Apparently the people of Russia had a real love-affair with the KGB, since Putin was elected with "72% of the vote."
90 posted on 01/30/2005 7:42:19 PM PST by TapTheSource
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To: TapTheSource

"I would say his having been the Chief of Romanian intelligence makes him an expert in his subject area, don't you think? At least Pacepa defected. Putin, on the other hand, spent his life building and upholding the genocidal regime of the Soviet Union as an officer in the dreaded KGB...and now he's the president of "Russia." Apparently the people of Russia had a real love-affair with the KGB, since Putin was elected with "72% of the vote.""

So, you want us to believe a "former" Communist who, as a security services agent had to undergo the most vigorous background screening to assure the state that he was extremely dedicated to their cause. After falling afoul of said state for dubious activities he suddenly had a change of heart and defected? Actually, he fled to save his neck. I'd love to hear from the people he oppressed while in his position in Romania, but unfortunately I cannot speak with the dead.

Regarding Putin's popularity. He is about that popular, and the 72% is actually 8 points lower than opinion polls showed prior to the election. Tell me this, would you have rathered Zuganov been elected? Or the radical anti-Semite self-hating Jew Zhirinovsky?


91 posted on 01/30/2005 7:47:04 PM PST by koba37
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To: TapTheSource
I would say his having been the Chief of Romanian intelligence makes him an expert in his subject area, don't you think?

Makes him a criminal on the highest level. A Soviet Thug on the level of Stalin's Beria who has escaped justice and makes money off of his life's work of oppressing and exterminating people.

as an officer in the dreaded KGB

Which directive of the KGB? Do you even know that? The border guards were also in the KGB.

Apparently the people of Russia had a real love-affair with the KGB, since Putin was elected with "72% of the vote

Well I guess you hate the Russian people after all, except for the communists, socialists, oligarchs and islamics. What do you know!

94 posted on 01/30/2005 7:58:26 PM PST by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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