So the WaPost is screaming about political prisoners in Russia when there are how many US political prisoners in the DC jail after almost a year charged with nothing yet?
The author of this piece is a Soros puppet.
For bonus points, WaPo, guess which other political ideology in which major nation is trying to erase the collective memory of its citizens.
For hints look in your own editorial bureau.
The problem is that Russia’s “collective memory” is Stalinist, just as it was Ivan the Terrible-ist, Peter the Great-ist, Catherine the Great-ist, and Leninist before that.
Hopefully they don’t bury the memory of Catherine The Great.
She is gonna be a Woke heroine soon—she will probably win a Nobel Animal Sex Prize.
;-)
This WaPo piece smells of CIA psy-ops to prep the U.S. populace for a war with Russia.
Conservatives appeal to voters by preparing for war while suing for peace. Leftists exploit this policy with theatre optics. Never mind that the conservative stance produces peace on our terms, leftists SCREAM that the conservative stance is war mongering, that we need to sing cumbayah and hold hands with despots who want to kill us and our allies for everything we have. Leftists are well aware that danger is the result so silently they are forced to confront our enemies militarily.
This confrontation is the result of leftist policies.
And he used the birthday of another opponent, Alexei Navalny, to sign a law banning his movement as “extremist.”
Just how many people know when is Navalny's birthday? lol..
Kara Murza is on the payroll of Khodorkovsky, not Soros. Trivia from Wikipedia:
Funeral pallbearer for John McCain In April 2018, United States Senator John McCain sent Kara-Murza a message revealing that McCain had been diagnosed with brain cancer and requesting that Kara-Murza, who had worked with McCain on issues relating to Russia since 2010, serve as a pallbearer at the senator's eventual funeral. Kara-Murza later said that he was "speechless", "heartbroken", and "close to tears", and that doing so would be "the most heartbreaking honor that anyone could think of". McCain died on 25 August; Kara-Murza joined fourteen others chosen by McCain himself, including former Vice-President Joe Biden and actor Warren Beatty, as a pallbearer at McCain's funeral at the Washington National Cathedral on 1 September. McCain's choice of Kara-Murza was described by Politico as a "final dig" at Putin, of whom McCain was a vocal critic, and at U.S. President Donald Trump, for his apparent closeness to the Russian president.
Stopped reading there.
The "Stalin-era anthem" was the anthem from 1944 to 1977 and included lines in praise of Lenin and Stalin.
In 1977, Stalin's name was removed, and the rest got a rewrite, concentrating on nation and party.
After the 1990 collapse, a completely new anthem was adopted; it was an instrumental, without (official?) lyrics.
In 2000, the melody written in 1944 was reinstated, but with new lyrics in praise of Russia and naming one individual-- GOD.
Yes, Russia turned so hard that the anthem dropped two atheist Communists and elevated the Deity.
Only the first line of the chorus has survived from the 1944 anthem:
Славься, Отечество наше свободное
(roughly) "Be glorified, our free fatherland".
Its ironic when WaPo complains about statist regimes producing propaganda.
Sounds a lot like banning President Trump from Twitter and others platforms.
Considering the entire Chechen Nation bragged that they would Rule Russia and Russians before Vladimir Putin won election over Boris Yeltsin, and now, after the Second Chechen War, Putin and Russia Rules Chechnya, Putin certainly ha a sense of humor.
Putin didn’t murder Ashli Babbit
Vladimir Putin is big on symbols.
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Wow....I sure am glad the political Left isn’t big on symbols. /s
Navalny? At he really is guilty of the corruption crimes he's accused of, unlike the J6 protesters who are overcharged and being held unjustly without bail. And I bet he's being treated no worse than they are.
Putin shutting down dissent? Could it be any worse than Biden raiding James O'Keefe's home to retrieve Ashley Biden's diary and then unlawfully looking through his home and phone?
And, nothing in Russia compares to Democrat governors and mayors allowing mass rioting and Democrat DAs letting most of those responsible for the carnage off the hook for their crimes. Putin would never allow protests that even shutdown city streets and most Russians are pleased he doesn't.
Putin has banned Soros. We let him fund DAs that pander to criminals. What's worse?
George Soros has spoken at Open Russia events.
No clicks for Bezo’s Blog.
Lenin remains on display in Moscow in his Masoleum on Red Square. Russia also holds large throwback parades every victory day, with Soviet flags and Soviet songs.