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‘Twelve’ of Putin
Twelve years ago our country, shaken by bombings in Moscow, Volgodonsk and the Ryazan ‘exercise’ (when FSB agents planted explosives in an apartment building in Ryazan - ed), was presented a nondescript bureaucrat as her Savior.
Russia’s womanly, trusting soul reached for the gangster major from Dresden who promised to “p--- on all our enemies in the outhouse” (a favorite saying of V.V. Putin – ed).
The caring hands of the most notorious villains of the stormy 1990s - Abramovich, Voloshin, Yumashev, and Berezovsky - gently sat him in the Kremlin gallery. So fiercely did he grip to power, however, it now seems he will never be dislodged from there.
Every new tragedy during these 12 years, each of which would seem to demonstrate that the king is naked, this magical witch doctor has enveloped in new orders, promises, threats, and increased authority.
So it was after ‘Nord-Ost’. So it was after Beslan. And so it is this time.
There was a lot of grim symbolism during yesterday’s tragedy at Domodedovo. Few, however, remember the exact words Our Nation’s Savior spoke during his finest outhouse hour:
“We will pursue the terrorists everywhere. If they’re at the airport – we’ll get them at the airport. So, you really must excuse me, if we catch them on the toilet, in the end we’ll p--- on them. And that’s it – problem permanently solved.”
Carefully reread these immortal words, uttered nearly 12 years ago. Now this subject urgently requires that we give him the right to protect us in airports for another 12 years.
Ah yes, we have a commander-in-chief, and the image-makers have now taught Uncle Volodya to resolutely knit his brow.
He must once again call on us to “utterly destroy” and punish everyone, even “those who wash the clothes and cook the soup of terrorists.” Knowing full well the mores of our terrorist fighters from the far provinces, who travel to the Caucasus as if to a job site, Our Savior and Defender of the Holy Throne cannot but understand that the only result of his television appeals will be a significant increase in the number of extrajudicial executions of those who have nothing to do with militants, and reprisals against the families of suspects.
While this, in turn, will swell the ranks of suicide bombers and lead to new terrorist attacks on Russian territory that, once again, our valiant security services will be unable to prevent.
P.S. Dear citizens, do not bother being “outraged” that this author “did not condemn” the terrorists and “did not express” sympathy for the victims of the tragedy. All of us, including this author, are the victims of terrorists, whether yesterday, today, or tomorrow, and all of us have contracted for a quarter century in the Struggle against Terror.
In March of last year, my daughter and grandson were on their way to school, and left the subway station at Culture Park just five minutes before the blast.
By Andrei Piontkovsky, in ‘Grani.ru’, January 25th, 2011
http://www.grani.ru/opinion/piontkovsky/m.185643.html