Has Russia got a new Stalin?

telegraph.co.uk ^ | 02/03/2008 | Adrian Blomfield

[kronos77]

Will America have another Clinton?
Yes, most probably.

Are communists rulers of Capitol Hill
yes, they are.

P.S. At least Russia is not humiliated by own government.

[xkaydet65]

Is Putin Stalin? Don’t think so. But is Putin a modern day Kaiser Whilhelm? Could be. And that might be worse.

[nyconse]

Soon enough, the Russians will either realize their mistake, or go back to knocks on the door at night. Stability in place of freedom gets you neither.

[NoLibZone]

"The atmosphere has changed," he says. "We were very confident after the fall of the Iron Curtain. We became convinced that we would no longer have to live in isolation. But now, we are again distrusted."

Having energy is a curse, look at the Arabs.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Michelle Obama and has been humiliated by the American government all her adult life. You want a president who will apologize for America, and ask for Russia, China and the UN’s permission before doing anything? Vote for Obama.

[NoLibZone]

Don’t you guys have a Russian site that allows freedom of speech?

[ozzymandus]

Russia is now ruled by the KGB.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Doesn’t it seem like they would be more comfortable posting at RussiaFirst.com or DownwithBoosh.com?

[Tailgunner Joe]

Any Russian who dares criticize the Russian government gets murdered by Putin’s chekist jackals.

[Sonny M]

Will America have another Clinton? Yes, most probably.

Chelsea???

It sure isn't going to be her mom.

[curiosity]

Yes.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Perhaps, but I would be more worried about America having a new Lenin or Leninist in the White House.

[wideawake]

Will America have another Clinton? Yes, most probably.

Check the polls again.

At least Russia is not humiliated by own government.

Only because Russians see nothing humiliating about their government murdering their own journalists.

When one lacks all sense of shame, it is impossible to be humiliated.

[kronos77]

Russian site that allows freedom of speech?

Well, not Russian, but a commie site...

http://www.senate.gov

[kronos77]

True, Russians are killing their journalists.
In the other hand Ana Politkovskaya was Sosros wh*re:

“Politkovskaya works for a small biweekly liberal newspaper, Novaya Gazeta. Its editor, Dmitri Muratev, breathes fire at the latest tactic invented by the state to silence Politkovskaya - a smear that she has been secretly working for, and paid by, western benefactors, including the Soros Foundation.”
http://tchetchenieparis.free.fr/text/Politkovskaya-16-3-02.htm

“Putin has done his best to remove Chechnya from the headlines, not by finding a solution to the conflict but by suppressing independent reporting. After Russian authorities protested, Anna Politkovskaya, an award-winning journalist who had written eloquently about Chechnya, even had her invitation to a panel discussion at the Frankfurt book fair canceled. The reality is that the war in Chechnya rages on. Human Rights Watch has reported that last year the number of disappearances was the highest since the second war began in 1999. Despite the destruction and loss of life, Putin remains intent on using force to subdue the region.”

From: http://www.soros.org/resources/articles_publications/articles/sorosonputin_20040616

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For her, I have no tears. Nor should you. Nor anybody.
(i do despise killing of a woman though. Gulag is OK)

[wideawake]

Your expressed belief that the proper treatment for journalists who dissent from government policy is being sent to the gulag should disabuse all other FReepers of the notion that you are a conservative.

[JadeEmperor]

Its sad that so many who post here claiming to be "social conservatives", appear to share a fondness for certain trappings of a totalitarian state, as long as their party was in power and not "liberals". At least its the impression I get from reading many of the comments on these threads.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I’d say more like a Kruschev in a Armani suit.

[propertius]

The testimonies of many inmates paint a grim picture, in which prisoners were beaten, forced to swallow nails and tortured with blowtorches. One told of having his mouth sewn shut after protesting about the conditions, others of losing their legs from gangrene or suffering paralysis after their spines were broken. Sodomy is rife. The worst beatings were often administered by "red armbands", fellow prisoners given privileges for acting as informants and enforcers - a recent innovation that mimics the system used by the Nazis. Suicides are common. In December, 700 prisoners slashed their wrists in a symbolic anti-torture protest. Another inmate bit off his own tongue, hoping to bleed to death. Although the state denies the allegations, human rights groups claim to have substantiated them.

Does this horrific picture not disturb you? How can you, as a Russian, even joke about the gulags?