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To: Destro
State trials are NEVER fair, much more so in the countries without the civil society and the rule of law with its independent judiciary. Even when there is the rule of law, one cannot be quite sure. I cannot remember even ONE court acquittal in a Russian state case, with the possible exception of the wrist slap given to anti-Gorbachev KeGeBuns after their failed coup attempt.
The "ideology" part of your post is incoherent. As Stalin once said "Marxism is not a dogma, but guidance to action". Ideology manifests itself in this action [and not in red banners and other suchlike symbols and slogans], i.e. in how people behave in socially important situations, toward one another and to their society. Properly speaking, the ideology IS the mental tuning-up to, and standardization for, such an action.
And in this sense those "siloviki" [your spelling was correct] are 200% communists through and through, even if they are brandishing three-colored banner instead of old monochromatic red.
11 posted on 07/01/2005 12:41:46 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: GSlob
You are incorrect in my opinion. Yeltsin's daughter and her family would be found guilty - what the state is doing is withholding trail as a way to keep Yeltsin in retirement.

You say the Siloviki are 200% Communist - but can offer no proof that they do what communists are supposed to do. The siloviki were the middle men of the old Soviet regime. Which leads me to conclude that your prejudice clouds your analytical abilities. We seem to agree up tp the point where you conclude the current system is "Stalinist" or that the siloviki are 'Stalinists' rather than functionaries that have taken over.

If I can be faniciful and use Orwell's 'Animal Farm' the old regime leadership was the pigs and the dogs were the silovoki or was that the horse? Whichever ones carried out the orders - I don't remember who was who anymore in the book. So the pigs ar egone leaving the middle managers or if you will the old enforcers to do the running of the farm but this time the farm animals have a choice/say.

12 posted on 07/01/2005 12:58:04 PM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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