yeah??? that's nothing compared to whats in store for them living in the Rodnia...
Posted on 07/25/2010 5:13:26 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Putin says spies expelled from US had 'tough lives'
Russian PM Vladimir Putin during a visit to Ukraine. Photo: 24 July 2010 Mr Putin said that the spies "had a tough life"
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says he has met the Russian agents recently deported from the US - and claimed they were living "tough lives" and had been "betrayed".
He told journalists that he had sung Soviet-era patriotic songs with the agents.
However, Mr Putin did not say where the meeting took place.
The 10 Russians admitted in a US court earlier this month to being agents for a foreign country.
More serious money laundering charges against them were dropped.
They were then flown to Vienna, where a Russian jet carrying four prisoners freed by Russia arrived around the same time - in what was America's biggest spy swap with Russia since the Cold War. 'Betrayal'
Mr Putin, who served as a KGB agent during the Soviet era, made the comments about his meeting during a visit to Foros, Ukraine, on Saturday.
He also confirmed that Anna Chapman - who had received most of the publicity in the Western and Russian media - was among the agents present.
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More interested in the spies that were returned to us. Wonder which one will turn out to be a double agent.
Putin appears to be a Russian patriot. It doesn’t hurt his candidates in elections one bit. Ours is the only country I know of in which patriotism actually may hurt at the ballot box and with the media.
yeah??? that's nothing compared to whats in store for them living in the Rodnia...
I’m glad their tough lives in Cambridge Massachusetts and elsewhere in this mean country will now be so much easier in Russia. Perhaps Anna will stop pining for her british passport.
No, he's a Soviet patriot.
Putin is more capitalistic than Obama
Putin is more religious than 0bama.
More laughing in our face.
Trouble is, Obamao is laughing in our face too.
“being agents for a foreign country. More serious money laundering charges...”
buck the ffc.
It was never aboutt ideology. It was only ever about national interest, with the veneer of ideology being used to legitimize it.
I bet Putin gave Russian Spy "Anna Chapman" extra attention...
The news is that none of the 4 'spies' released by this deal were US Nationals and that none of these Russian 10 had been jailed for longer than what, a month or two? Can somebody explain what the logic is other than Obama trying to make squishy soft nice with the Russians?
In my mind there’s no doubt he initially put them in place which was the real reason the exchange took no time to arrange. Obama did not want to open that can of worms while he was bent over in front of Putin.
The formal charges were more or less the equivalent of being unregistered lobbyists. They were never charged with espionage. Since they were already going to be traded and agreed to never seek to enter the U.S. again, the charges were probably adequate.
Traitors always end up badly. They finish up as drug addicts or drunks on the street. I had followed somewhat the lives of the infamous British traitors of the cold war era. They managed to escape to the Soviet Union. When dead some were given the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union" and a fine headstone to boot. Master of Orwell's "double think" here. Rotten traitors to the British.
Some of this stuff almost hilarious. "Comrade J" by Pete Early was recommended to me here on FR. We learn that this month Sergei Tretyakov, the "comrade" just died in America. He was 53 years old. He got two million dollars and his family lifted out of Russia. He informed the author of this:
Three Russian agents apparently were so scared of being called back from Canada, they desperately tried to convince their Russian masters they had pulled off a coup. They said they bribed Alex Kindy, a Ukranian who had risen to a very minor position in provincial government in Western Canada. He was said to have taken ten thousand dollars in bills. The men were almost incoherent with their "success" . They drank heavily and almost " spilled the beans". We are told that they believed this was their ticket to another few years in Canada.
Kindy retired and said nothing. He is nearly eighty years old.
Anna Chapman had sex with any man that had British citizenship then she let any American man use her for sex to come to America. She is by all definitions a whore. Russian women are NOTORIOUS for be gold diggers (look at Mel Gibson’s ex Oink$ana who doctored tapes to extort money from him and lied about being assaulted) and having no sexual morality :(
Putin is a Communist who believes in, and loves his country.
Obama is a socialist who hates his country.
Big difference here.
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