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How a young conscript became a Russian saint
redcross.newstrove.com ^ | 24 November 2004 | Andrew Osborn

Posted on 11/25/2004 12:00:10 PM PST by Destro

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1 posted on 11/25/2004 12:00:10 PM PST by Destro
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To: MarMema; The_Reader_David


2 posted on 11/25/2004 12:03:49 PM PST by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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To: Destro

Thanks for posting this.


3 posted on 11/25/2004 12:05:18 PM PST by aroostook war
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To: Destro

I'd be curious to get your thoughts on the following post.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1288428/posts


4 posted on 11/25/2004 12:08:22 PM PST by TapTheSource
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To: Destro
There are saintly Americans also beheaded by the satanic IslamoFascists.

Let us never forget that the War on Terror is actually a World War being waged by the forces of pure evil. Al Querda is brutally mass murdering Thai Buddhists, Indian Hindus, Pillipene Catholics, Israeli Jews, Sudanese Christians, and atheist Dutch documenatary makers.

5 posted on 11/25/2004 12:11:56 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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George Soros backs In Ukraine, in the presidential elections, Soros’s people back Yushchenko but he is also supported by Andrei Shkil’s ultra-nationalist UNSO. Vyacheslav Likhachev of the European-Asian Jewish Congress noted the unsettling links between Mr Soros’s preferred candidate for Ukrainian president, Yuschchenko, and the neo-Nazis there after the 2002 parliamentary elections key opposition leaders, including Viktor Yushchenko, Julia Timoshenko and Alexander Moroz, defended anti-Semitic publications and accepted the backing of neo-Nazi groups as well as US and EU and so-called “civic society” NGOs. Nor were the anti-Semtic apologetics of the Ukrainian opposition unknown to key OSCE observers and EU parliamentarians who nonetheless ignored the dark shadow across Yushchenko’s campaign preferring instead to abuse his rival.
6 posted on 11/25/2004 12:20:02 PM PST by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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Commies and Socialists back Yuschenko: Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz, one of Yuschenko's key strategists, said the opposition was "organizing citizens, stopping lessons at schools and universities, stopping work at enterprises, stopping transport ... and, thus, we'll force the authorities to think about what they are doing." ... Ukrainian Communist party leader and presidential candidate in the first round Petro Symonenko said the Ukrainian elections must be declared invalid and power must be passed over to parliament.
7 posted on 11/25/2004 12:21:41 PM PST by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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Soros is a Moscow puppet. He hides his allegiance to Putin/KGB while he goes around destablizing Western democracies on Putin's behalf.


8 posted on 11/25/2004 12:23:41 PM PST by TapTheSource
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To: TapTheSource

George Soros and his groups were kicked out of Russia by Putin. They are enemies.


9 posted on 11/25/2004 12:26:00 PM PST by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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The top leadership of the pro-Moscow and anti-Moscow Ukrainian political parties are both Putin's puppets. The genuine opposition needs to realize this and throw the bums out on both sides. Unfortunately, if the real opposition ever mangages to do this, Russian tanks will be there faster than you can say Tianamen Square.


10 posted on 11/25/2004 12:27:21 PM PST by TapTheSource
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"George Soros and his groups were kicked out of Russia by Putin. They are enemies."

No, Soros was thrown out of Moscow to dupe the right, and to give him credibility among the useful idiots on the Left.


11 posted on 11/25/2004 12:28:49 PM PST by TapTheSource
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http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/datelinedc/s_165315.html

Instead, there were some 40 large men in camouflage gear with stun guns, hand trucks and moving vans at the Soros Foundation. They ordered the staff out of the building and then loaded documents and computer printouts from the past 15 years, as well as office equipment, onto their vans. The New York-based Soros Foundation that operates under the name "Open Society Institute" had spent more than $1 billion on charitable and educational projects in Russia during the past 15 years. This summer, George Soros said that he was closing out his Russian activities.

Dmitry Lovrev, a lawyer for the Soros Foundation, said they had a 10-year lease on the office, that they were up-to-date with the rent. Kantimir Karamzin, speaking on behalf of the building owner claimed that no rent had been paid since 2001, and assured "there was no political motive for moving out George Soros."

Perhaps Mr. Karamzin did not have all the facts. Last July, when Soros decided that he had given enough cash to Moscow, the investigation into the Yukos oil giant moved into top gear.

But why should the Russians be bothering America's very own George Soros?

Like the bold oligarch that he is, Soros denounced the arrest of Khodorkovsky as "persecution" that would force business to submit to the Russian state.

"I believe that he acted within the constraints of the law in supporting political parties. I am doing the same in the United States."

By this remark, George Soros was reminding us that he had given $10 million to the Democratic National Committee for "regime change" in the 2004 elections. Of course, he is acting within the constraints of the law, in the same way that Khodorkovsky was when he named his charitable organization, the "Open Russia Foundation," and said that there was no connection with the Soros "Open Society Institute" although they did fund some projects together.

Khodorkovsky nabbed Lord Rothschild of London and our own inimitable Henry Kissinger for his board of directors. Gifts to American charities began to flow. Khodorkovsky joined the advisory board of the U.S. Carlyle Group, a super rich private equity fund, where he conferred in Moscow with the former Secretary of State James Baker III and former President George H. W. Bush.

While Soros's largest donation of all time to the Democratic Party is not yet receiving undue attention, the arrest of Russia's richest man and the Yukos losses continues to be a major story. In less than a month, votes for the State Duma will determine the extent of support for President Putin.

Putin's political party, United Russia, is running only a few points ahead of the Communist Party. Both are trying to shed the image of being fat cat bureaucrats. Of even greater concern to Putin is the large numbers of young people who are now supporting the Communists. Both major blocs could use the votes of the liberal parties that recently rallied in Moscow in support of their own positions and for the freeing of Khodorkovsky who financed both liberal groups.

Prosecutors will have no problems in finding charges against many Russian tycoons involved in the "quick and dirty" privatization programs under Boris Yeltsin in the mid- 1990s. The theory, developed by the Clinton administration, was that once private property was established, the new owners would fight for democracy against a strong Communist challenge.

When Yeltsin won, by very dubious means, oligarchs were given state jobs and enormous powers. At that time, Condoleezza Rice, who is now national security adviser, wrote that the Clintonistas were overlooking the "looting of the country's assets by powerful people." Under Putin, the prosecutors have for four years been building their cases and, again in theory, a rule of law may emerge.

12 posted on 11/25/2004 12:29:24 PM PST by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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To: TapTheSource

I forgot you are a paranoid delusionist tin foil hatter.


13 posted on 11/25/2004 12:31:40 PM PST by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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This paragraph really stuck out:

Many of the pilgrims play down suggestions that Russia is engaged in a holy war, but Lyubov is less coy. "Islam and Christianity are at war. Some of our boys were crucified and nailed to trees. The Chechens laughed and said, 'Your Jesus rose from the dead on the third day; let's see if you do the same'. Terror has a Muslim face. You can't deny that."


14 posted on 11/25/2004 12:32:20 PM PST by Keme (Bush Contra Mundum)
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"By this remark, George Soros was reminding us that he had given $10 million to the Democratic National Committee for "regime change" in the 2004 elections."

This is how Putin/KGB influence US elections. Putin's tepid endorsement of George Bush should be seen as keeping his relationship with Bush on the best of terms should Bush win re-election. I can't believe how easily you fall for such disinformation.


15 posted on 11/25/2004 12:34:40 PM PST by TapTheSource
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Destro, you really should read what Lenin said about Useful Idiots. It might give you pause for some self reflection.


16 posted on 11/25/2004 12:39:07 PM PST by TapTheSource
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To: TapTheSource
Don't be such a pest by doing anything political on this lovely article about somebody's faith in GOD.

What is wrong with you?

This poor mother lost her son to islamic terrorists who killed him because he was a Christian more than because he was a Russian.

I found her story to be inspiring and I am a Baptist American.

What a great young man!!! May GOD bless him and his Mom.

ON this day I am THANKFUL for all Christians who put Jesus Christ before their own lives and politics!!

17 posted on 11/25/2004 12:40:23 PM PST by Lion in Winter (I ain't no pussy cat... don't mess with me... ya hear! GRRRRRRrrr)
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To: TapTheSource

Unless you can prove that Soros is really Putin's agent - Soros who happens to back all those peopel Putin is against in elections - you will be the "idiot" here. Either put up or shut up.


18 posted on 11/25/2004 12:41:31 PM PST by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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To: Lion in Winter

Tap is pro Chechen Muslim and this is how he chose to pull attention away from the article. A disinfo post - so no sympathy can go Russia's way or something.


19 posted on 11/25/2004 12:42:43 PM PST by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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"A disinfo post - so no sympathy can go Russia's way or something."

Destro, I am against terrorism in all its forms, including Chechen and Russian terrorism. Are you happy with the fact that Russia is supplying virtually all of its "former" Cold War/Terrorist allies with weapons to be used against the free world (to include turning Iran into a nuclear threat)? Russia is an enemy of the US, yet you defend the Evil Empire with your every post. I'm beginning to wonder about you, Destro.


20 posted on 11/25/2004 12:49:09 PM PST by TapTheSource
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