Closing Our Eyes to Evil

ECR ^ | 13 MAY 10 | EC

[nysuperdoodle]

"Pavel Stroilov, a Russian exile in London, has on his computer 50,000 unpublished, untranslated, top-secret Kremlin documents, mostly dating from the close of the Cold War. He stole them in 2003 and fled Russia. Within living memory, they would have been worth millions to the CIA; they surely tell a story about Communism and its collapse that the world needs to know. Yet he can’t get anyone to house them in a reputable library, publish them, or fund their translation. In fact, he can’t get anyone to take much interest in them at all."

You know, it's said that to be ignorant of history is to be doomed to repeat it. I made that up myself. OK. I'm kidding, of course, but you can quote that, even though I didn't make it up.

[ETL]

Russia's Leaders See China as Template for Ruling
New York Times ^ | October 17, 2009 | CLIFFORD J. LEVY

MOSCOW — Nearly two decades after the collapse of the Communist Party, Russia’s rulers have hit upon a model for future success: the Communist Party.

Or at least, the one that reigns next door.

Like an envious underachiever, Vladimir V. Putin’s party, United Russia, is increasingly examining how it can emulate the Chinese Communist Party, especially its skill in shepherding China through the financial crisis relatively unbowed.

United Russia’s leaders even convened a special meeting this month with senior Chinese Communist Party officials to hear firsthand how they wield power. ..."

“The accomplishments of China’s Communist Party in developing its government deserve the highest marks,” Aleksandr D. Zhukov, a deputy prime minister and senior Putin aide, declared at the meeting with Chinese officials on Oct. 9

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...

[ETL]

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"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.'
http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html

[editor-surveyor]

Thanks for the ping!

This needs legs.

[editor-surveyor]

Ping to a most interesting article.

[JulieRNR21]

Thanks for the ping........BUMP for an important thread.

[Just mythoughts]

I am not the least bit surprised there is little interest in what the literal evidence demonstrates from back to the ‘cold war’. This nation through public education has become lazy and deluded into the reality of what took place during that time... we know this by the majority of votes that were cast in the last election. Of course I do not discount the survivor of the Vietnam POW camp that loves liberals more then he likes conservatives gain/garnered the opposition nomination.

I can only imaging the strange bed fellows that would be exposed in the files.

[txhurl]

There have been millions of Russians coming here since then...how many Americans moving there?

[Just mythoughts]

There have been millions of Russians coming here since then...how many Americans moving there?

Yes, millions of not only Russians keep coming here, even while our dear leader has spent the majority of his time on our dime ridiculing US for our feigned 'evils'...

There is something about the mysticism of communism that continues even from its latest incarnation of the 19th century gets 'grace' by the voices and movements of liberalism. Every once in a while we get a President Reagan who never allow fear of its base to take away from US our spirit of freedom. Quite a rotation of winds blowing around this globe as the powers that be attempt to institute a better communism, using a 'religious' version they are calling 'social justice'.

[oyez]

I quite sure the powers that be feel that this large volume of information is too “distracting”.

[DaveTesla]