Posted on 06/05/2021 12:45:43 AM PDT by Robwin
ST. PETERSBURG —Less than two weeks from a first face-to-face with President Biden in Geneva, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday criticized the U.S. prosecution of rioters who took part in the January attack on the Capitol, calling it an example of American "double standards."
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That differed from Biden’s preview of the summit last week, when he said he would press Putin on human rights abuses such as Russia’s treatment of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. In response, the Kremlin has attempted to draw an equivalency to the U.S. treatment of the Capitol rioters. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called it a “persecution” earlier this week.
“These are not looters or thieves, these people came with political requests,” Putin said of the pro-Trump mobs that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.
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Vlad is playing Chess and Sleepy46 is playing Candy Land.
Senile PedoJoe will press the seat of his adult diapers, and then press Doc Jill for a Puddin Pop.
He won't imPress his daddy Vladimir.
Putin 2024.
Smart. You want to press me on human rights? What about the political prisoners you are holding without bail. You want to write an opinion about that judge Amy Jackson? CNN? Any comment why we look unfavorable compared to an authoritarian dictatorship???
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
As usual, Putin is right.
Dementia Joe is carrying out more human rights abuses, internment without trial, persecution and terrorism against political opponents than most dictators on the planet.
Any talk of “human rights abuses” by Joe Dementia to Putin will be met with laughter and scorn.
After everything I’ve seen America do recently, I believe we owe the former Soviet Union an apology.
Easy on the language, my FRiend. I’ve been known to cuss here from time to time, but that one was kinda pointless.
It’s a sad day for this country when you realize that Putin would be a better pick for president than the ones inhabiting the White House.
How far this country has fallen.
It would be interesting for Putin to publicly address the War on Free Speech in America.
Even Putin can see the Jan6ers are political prisoners - something the media will not see in their headlong collusion to turn the US into a dictatorship.
Yep. Should be fun to watch.
I agree with Putin.
You spell it “fukker” anyway...
Those on the outside looking in can easily see how the USA, the media and the Democrats are in cahoots and the propaganda the spew is obvious - to them.
Free the Capitol 600!
I’m surprised, I agree with Putin... 😀
He should have pressed much harder and pointed out that those held in solitary confinement for months on end for a misdemeanor charge of trespassing must be considered to be political prisoners at this point.
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