Vladimir Putin's 'Time of Troubles' (VERY Educational and Informative)

Kyiv Post ^ | 02 March 2015 | Alexei Bayer

[Reaganite Republican]

Supporters of slaughtered Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov
march in Moscow yesterday, Sunday 01 March 2015 (twitter)

There is no need to discuss whether Vladimir Putin personally gave the order to kill Boris Nemtsov, or whether it was given by someone else in the Kremlin - either to make the boss happy or, conversely, to put yet another stain on his long-besmirched reputation. Or whether Nemtsov was shot by some "patriotic" right-wing ghoul, acting on his own. As deputy head of the Kremlin administration Vyacheslav Volodin declared last October, speaking at the Valdai discussion forum in Sochi: "Russia will endure only if Putin does."

In other words, Putin bears direct personal responsibility for the murder
-just as he does for the whole criminal enterprise known as Putinism.

Volodin’s statement goes far beyond the typical fawning of a Russian official. It not only describes the current situation in Russia, but adumbrates what will likely happen there in the relatively near future - as well as how it will happen.

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[Reaganite Republican]

***PING***

[chajin]

Headline is accurate: this is a fascinating analysis. Barring the end of the world or massive medical progress, I will have to see this happen from elsewhere than in this body, but it wouldn’t surprise me to see it happen.

[SampleMan]

I detest the use of the term “right-wing” to describe statists. The far Left is total government control, the opposite is not total government control, it is individual liberty.

[WayneS]

Good article.

The Time of Troubles was aptly named, but it was almost entirely a Russian/Eastern European problem.

A repeat in this day and age could be a worldwide disaster.

[Reaganite Republican]

I found it very, very interesting

[Reaganite Republican]

Agreed in full

[McGruff]

I always like to check out the author's BIOs.

Alexei Bayer is a New York-based economist and writer. His detective novel, Murder Behind Closed Doors, set in the U.S.S.R. in the 1960s, is due to appear in May.

Sounds like an expert. At least for Ukraine's version of Pravda.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

My heart will always belong to Arkady Renko, but since Russian Spy Novels are my faves, I’ll give it a try. :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

BUMP for Lunch-time reading...

[WayneS]

An excellent book on the Time of Troubles and the founding of the Romanov dynasty is the aptly named: Russia's First Civil War: the Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty, by Chester Dunning.

http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-02074-7.html

[SMARTY]

“You can have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The problem becomes, here in the West, most people STILL possess a great deal they can call their OWN.

The Left is working on flat lining THAT. The process has accelerated that agenda of course, with “O” in the WH.

Those of us with a recollection of how hard we worked to GET what we have and to maintain it are the most sensitized to this.

Others ... with NO effort invested in the acquisition of their property or with obtaining their place in society... not so much.

Leftists will see their problem once EVERYONE has nothing. Then it’s too late for all of us.

It’s unfortunate that so many ‘Republicans’ are asleep at the switch and are permitting the Leftist agenda to run forward, apace. How can anyone oppose all this once it reaches THAT point?

We certainly cannot rely on “Republicans’ to put the brakes on for us.

[elhombrelibre]

I agree. I remember when the Soviet Union was collapsing. The same people, US Liberals, progressives, Socialist, etc., who had backed the Soviet Union and its communist party started calling the hardcore commies conservatives as a way to smear conservatives. Likewise, we have people who see Putin as a conservative because they think he's going to use the Russian state to push back against the International Left. Putin's gone from being a communist to being a self-serving Russian chauvinist willing to use conservative institutions. He's a autocratic statist ruling by ukase.

[CrazyIvan]

“In the English novel the couple want each other in the beginning and find each other in the end.
In the French novel they have each other in the beginning and part in the end.
In the Russian novel they neither want not get each other but brood about it for 700 pages.”

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Exactly! That’s Arkady, LOL!

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Russia needs a Czar (a royal family). watch as Putin sets up a national crisis to distract his people (war with England?).

[Reaganite Republican]

The quality of writing is impressive, imho

And his arguments make sense from what I can tell...

IMHO, the Russian purge has just begun- unfortunately