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Russia Is the Occupied State for Khodorkovsky
Mikhail Khodorkovsky regards Russia an occupied state and blames the lack of the nation’s initiative exactly on this occupation, Novaya Gazeta reported with reference to Khodorkovsky’s talk with the lawyers.
According to Khodorkovsky, quite a few different thinkers arrived at one and the same conclusion - mentality of the Russians, the relations of people and elite, the place of special services in public life are characteristic not for the country at war but rather for the occupied country.
Since the time of Tatar and Mongolian invasion, Khodorkovsky went on, the nation has humbled that authorities owe nothing, they don’t make any agreements with people, collecting taxes not for the common targets but as a tribute, for what they aren’t accountable. It is the tradition of many centuries, former Yukos CEO pointed out.
“The freedom-loving people attempted to act differently – joining the elite, moving to the East, to the North, but hardly anything has changed in mentality of majority because of it,” Khodorkovsky explained.
Due to historical reasons, not individualism but anti-collectivism is peculiar for the Russians, i.e. the nation is unable to close ranks for solving common tasks without the leading influence of authorities.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky is serving an eight-year sentence in the colony of Krasnokamensk-town of the Chita region. The charges against him are formally economic, but their nature is political, the right defenders say.
Russia weighs in on what is happening in the US Congress. :)
Unfortunately the next Congress is bound to keep looting, this short pause in bailout mania notwithstanding :)
The Nomenklatura is now "the oligarchs". And as for the KGB thugs, where did you think the Russian Mafia got its people from?
The current system is just a mask on the old system.