Who Killed Litvinenko? - Try asking Vladimir Putin

The Wall Street Journal ^ | November 27, 2006 | David Satter

[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.

[stevie_d_64]

I agree...Good call there!

Its amazing how they can state a generic "support" of something, yet always have that one (or more) annoying little detailed (armchair diplomat) critique of something based upon a safe "hindsight is 20/20" perspective...

I see that a lot in academia, and other liberal/socialist elitist brain-castes...

[spanalot]

yeah - the nazis - Russia's pertner in crime in 1939.

What do you think about all the Russians that have set up "dating services" for americans to meet Russian women and the "women" turn out to be nothing but whores?

http://www.delphifaq.com/faq/russian_marriage_scams/f1102.shtml

[GSlob]

Well, if you do not like "yo", then how about "kegebuchaya svoloch'"?

[SkyPilot]

theprodigy
Since Dec 7, 2006

[george76]

Well! Crop circles don’t lie!

[PhilDragoo]

Prize Specimen: The campaign to revoke Walter Duranty’s Pulitzer.

We will never know how many Ukrainians died in Stalin's famines of the early 1930s. As Nikita Khrushchev later recalled, "No one was keeping count." Writing back in the mid- 1980s, historian Robert Conquest came up with a death toll of around six million, a calculation not so inconsistent with later research (the writers of The Black Book of Communism (1999) estimated a total of four million for 1933 alone).

[familyop]

Well said. An evil empire is an evil empire, regardless of the various hats it chooses to wear from one day to the next. The Czars enforced censorship as the Communists did, as the ruling Party there does today. And only one religious organization is favored there, as it was throughout the Soviet years.

[REDWOOD99]

I gave you the benefit of the doubt until point #3. You are a moonbat and you belong on a different site.

[prodigious]

I am so sorry for saying those things about ladies. I do feel terrible. I was drunk and influenced by the thoughts about a recent relationship that did not work out well. Dear ladies, please accept my apologies. Forgive me for what I have said, for it was unmanly of me. All the women of the world are surely beautiful and are the best that G..d has ever created.

P.S., something to read for all of us here: Read about Russophobia

[REDWOOD99]

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