Young "comrades" in training, today in Russia.
Posted on 11/27/2006 12:33:08 AM PST by Zakeet
MOSCOW--Until a week ago, Alexander Litvinenko, a former colonel in the Russian Federal Security Service, the FSB, was virtually unknown outside the murky world of Russian intelligence. With his death in London from a massive dose of the radioactive element polonium 210, however, his fate may lead to a fundamentally different relationship between Russia and the West.
Beginning with the Yeltsin era, two U.S. administrations have muted their criticism of Russia. This was the case even in the face of a series of political murders in Russia. But if Litvinenko, a British subject, was murdered by Russian intelligence on British soil, self-censorship is no longer an option. Unless we want to give the Putin regime carte blanche to dispose of its enemies on our soil, we now have no choice but to react.
Russian television has given an explanation for the murder of Litvinenko as surrealistic as any offered by the Soviets during the Cold War. It attributed his death to intrigues in the entourage of the exiled Russian oligarch, Boris Berezovsky. An announcer on the evening news said Litvinenko was "a pawn in a game whose significance he did not understand."
Mr. Berezovsky, however, had no reason to kill Litvinenko, whose views he shared and whom he had helped since his arrival in the U.K. in 2000. In November 1998, Litvinenko revealed a plot to kill Mr. Berezovsky who, at the time, was the deputy head of the Russian security council. The evidence points instead to Litvinenko having been murdered by the FSB, which, together with the other "force ministries," has become the dominant political force in Russia today.
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It is as clear as daylight, except to those who resolutely refuse to see.
Young "comrades" in training, today in Russia.
FSB agents were caught preparing explosives in a building by the police. They were whisked away by the FSB with the explanation it was an exercise. No more building were blown up after that "exercise".
Millions of people believed that Putin and the FSB were responsible for all those explosions.
Many things just don't add up in this Litvinenko mess. I don't like that his wife and aide appeared in a car with the Chechen "Foreign Minister" (so referred to by the Brit media--no Chechnya is NOT a nation), then we hear he converted to Islam and wanted a Muslim burial. Wasn't it the Chechens who murdered scores of children at Beslan? And Litvinenko was in league with them? Hardly my idea of a heroic figure.
That was in just about every newspaper in the world at the time. If you did not see it you are not very well informed on the subjec. Check it out, even Wikapedia has it too:
"...More disturbing, FSB agents were actually caught planting a bomb in the basement of a fifth building in the city of Ryazan. After they were arrested by local authorities, Nikolai Patrushev, the head of the FSB, offered the bizarre explanation that the bomb had been planted by the FSB as part of a training exercise to test the residents’ “vigilance.”
On March 27, 2000, Kheda Kungaeva, an eighteen-year-old woman, was taken from her home in Chechnya, beaten, raped, and murdered. (1) On February 28, 2001, the Rostov District Military Court will try Col. Yuri Budanov for Kungaeva's murder. It is the first and only case in which Russian authorities promptly and publicly acknowledged a crime, perpetrated by Russian federal forces against civilians in Chechnya, that constitutes a gross violation of international humanitarian and human rights law. (2)
The military has portrayed Budanov's behavior as an exceptional example of wanton criminality by a serviceman. (3) However, the abduction, beating, rape, and murder of Kungaeva reflect a pattern of violations perpetrated by federal forces that has been exhaustively documented by Human Rights Watch and other nongovernmental organizations.
You can read all about Col. Budanov and the number of Russians who were killed to protect him from justice.
Got to go now.
Welcome
let me guess - you are a retired Vet and your married to a Russian.
"Let's show everyone how bad these Russian KGB people are! "
no problem!
http://www.lietuvos.net/istorija/communism/
You're not only a Putin clone but also a defender of Saddam. True colours are always demonstrated with traitors.
"And when Israel bombed Lebanon, its was fine with everyone as well."
You also have a problem with Israel defending herself from Iranian-Syrian-Russian armed Hezballah terrorists? Typical.
Despise eh? Yo is just not how they say it Moscow, correcto Comrade? Yo, yo, yo listen up, is that getting to you?
"Putin is maybe no good for your, but he sure as hell is good for Russia right now."
Oh yea, wonderful, he just ducky! He's just the type the population over there can wholeheartedly worship, boss of the New & More Deadly Evil Empire>
"If it takes the FSB to clean up Russia of all the criminal scum and provide the Russian people with normal living conditions, then let the FSB do its job."
FSB=KGB= how many millions butchered, tortured, frozen, starved and shot, how many "scum" 50 million, 60 million, or is the figure closer to 100 million, slaughtered by those Bolshevik bastards you so admire.
Another one of your notorious, kegebun lies.
Dangerous liaisons: covert ''love affair" between Russia and Hezbollah
"You are unhappy with the KGB? The west has been acting as the World Police, enforcing its own ideology on everyone."
You don't even attempt to mask you shameless American bashing.
"Nobody has the right to invade a country and bring down its government if that country poses no direct threat to anyone."
As in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Comrade Creep?
In September of 1939 Russia invaded Eastern Poland, and took 217,000 Poles prisoner, most murdered in communist Siberian slave camps.
Let's not forget other Russian invasions:
#August 23rd, 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed. Pact gave Soviet Union free hand in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland.
# October 11th, 1939 NKVD issues Order No. 001223 for deportations of anti-Soviet elements from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to Russia.
# October 18th, 1939 First Red Army units enter Estonia.
# November 13th, 1939 Finland rejects Soviet demands.
# November 30th, 1939 Winter War against Finland starts.
# December 1st, 1939 Terijoki Government, Soviet puppet government of Finland is created in occupied Terijoki border county near Leningrad.
# June 14th, 1940 Soviet air force shoot down Finnish passenger plane "Kaleva" flying from Tallinn to Helsinki.
# June 15th, 1940 at 03:00 Soviet troops storm and capture Latvian border posts
# June 17th, 1940 Estonia and Latvia gave in to the Soviet demands and are occupied.
#July 22rd, 1940 The president of Latvia, KÄrlis Ulmanis, is arrested and deported to Russia, never returning. He died in a prison in Krasnovodsk on September 20, 1942.
# August 3rd, 1940 Soviet Union annexes Lithuania.
# August 5th, 1940 Soviet Union annexes Latvia.
# August 6th, 1940 Soviet Union annexes Estonia.
Russian (Soviet) Slave Labour & Siberia Death Camps
# February 1940: Deportation of 140,000 Poles (deportation of osadniks) from newly acquired Western regions of Belarus and Ukraine to Northern European Russia, Ural and Siberia.
# April 1940: Deportation of 61,000 Poles (several social categories) Western regions of Belarus and Ukraine to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
# June 1940: Deportation of 75,000 Poles from Ukraine and Belarus who were fugitives from Poland to Northern European Russia, Ural and Siberia.
# July 1940: Deportation of "persons of foreign ethnicity" from Murmansk Oblast to Karelo-Finnish SSR and Altai Krai.
# May 22nd, 1941: Deportation of 11,000 of members of families of "counterrevolutionaries and nationalists" from Western Ukraine to Southern Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Omsk Oblast, Novosibirsk Oblast.
# June 12th, 1941 Deportation of 30,000 of members of families of "counterrevolutionaries and nationalists" from Chernovtsy and Izmail oblasts of Ukraine and from Moldavian SSR to Kazakhstan, Komi ASSR, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Omsk and Novosibirsk oblasts
# June 14th, 1941 Deportation of "anti-Soviet elements" from annexed Baltic States (in accordance with instructions set out in NKGB Order No. 001223):
* from Lithuania (18,000) to Altai Krai, Novosibirsk Oblast, Kazakhstan and Komi ASSR;
* from Latvia (17,000) to Krasnoyarsk Krai and Novosibirsk Oblast of Russia and Karaganda oblast of Kazakhstan
* from Estonia (10,000) to Kirov Oblast and Novosibirsk Oblast. Of those seized during the one-night operation, over 80 percent were women, children, or elderly people. The purpose of this action was to create terror
# June 1941: Deportation of 21,000 "nationalists" from Western White Russia (Belarus)
Numerous Red Army defeats after invading Finland."KGB? LOL, KGB has never come close enough to the police action that the west has inflicted upon the world. Luckily for Russia, the personal interest of the current rulers of the west completely agree with the national interest of Russia..........western people are paying for the rise of the new Russian empire."
If you are an "American" you are traitor.
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