Posted on 02/10/2015 1:48:09 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
They are ordinary Russian citizens living in Moscow: an English teacher, an engineer, an economist. For several weeks already they gather on Manezhnaya Ploshchad in Moscow to exchange contacts and to think up a way to change Russia. “We are all citizens of Russia, the country where we were born, and which we love, but which turned into a totalitarian monster,” they say in a video they recorded for their fellow citizens, whom they hope to get involved in changing their country.
“A country that is not free can’t have a good healthcare system, strong education, developed economy. It is a country where people do not work and do not develop. They emigrate.” Why is Russia not free? The arrests of the friends of the group are telling: three years spent in a colony for protesting the construction of a VI{P summer house in a nature reserve, five years for holding a sign at a protest, arrests for posts on social media, dozens of people arrested for supporting Nadiya Savchenko, the Ukrainian pilot illegally kidnapped and jailed in Russia. The most recent case of Russia’s repression of civic liberties is the case of Svetlana Davydova, the mother that is being accused of treason for saying what everybody knew already: Russian troops are in Ukraine.
Their numbers gradually grow, as the video is being avidly shared in social media. The movement’s organizer, Evgeniy Levkovich, in an interview to OpenRussia said that they want to create a mass civic, non-partisan and non-ideological opposition movement because they are tired of waiting. “First we waited for fair elections. Then we waited for mass protests to bring authorities to their senses. Then we waited for Navalny. Then, for the “coordination council of the opposition.” Then we waited for Putin to react to Bolotnaya ploshchad. […] And the results – war with Ukraine, criminal cases against opposition figures participating in single pickets and a de-facto ban on dissent. We have nothing and nobody to wait for, we are almost living in a country that Orwell described in his anti-utopia Nineteen Eighty Four. It seems that we have to take up the responsibility. The end goal, once again, is to create a mass movement, to cancel all the repressive laws adopted by the Duma, and to ensure the compliance with the Constitution.”
It all began on 18 January 2015, when the group’s friend Mark Galperin was arrested for holding a placard “Je Suis Charlie.” In Russia, only solitary pickets with placards are permitted without prior registration. At a certain moment, a provocateur with a sheet of white paper stood next to Mark. His protest ceased to be solitary, he was arrested and is now facing up to five years in prison. This arrest signalled that it’s time to start moving, in order to not betray their friend. And they will continue to gather on the square until their aim is achieved, at the very least – until their friends are released from prison.
Sadly Russia is ran like a cult. A 140 million people Jonestown with similar brainwashing methods, but supported by modern technology.
Yes, and there are cult members here, too, even on FReeRepublic who value Russian revanchists’ policies, Russian chauvinism, and Putinism more than law. They say it’s all because they oppose Obama, but that’s just too stupid to be true. You cannot favor freedom and support a foreign despot because you’re unhappy with the narcissistic statist in the White House who leaves office in less than two years. Real Americans never suck up to foreign dictators and have treasonous sympathies. Only really dumbed down conservatives could be tricked by a president for life using a few shallow sophistries that have a veneer of conservatism.
No Putin doesn’t!!! THAT is propaganda!!! His numbers are like obama’s economic & employment numbers FALSE!
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/21/us-russia-putin-pussyriot-idUSKCN0J51PQ20141121
Why do ask? 1 reason is because the new democratic Russia has copied the way we were and obliged us for the last 25 years.
With the promotion of religion, family, straight sex, flat tax ect, they were going in a better direction than us.
Ask yourself a hard question. Who would make a better world president, Obama or Putin ?
Maybe, this will help understanding:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-russia-props-up-putin-in-the-polls/2015/01/30/0302bea8-a59e-11e4-a7c2-03d37af98440_story.html
I don't want a world president. I much prefer the republic our Founding Fathers gave us.
If it's not 80%, what is it or should it be?
The 'MSM' is very powerful. They can reduce Nixon's 60% landslide to ~40%, 1st Bush after defeating Sadam, from 90% to ~40%.
What has Putin at 80% is not their MSM but the fact that he is country 1st. The Ukrans and Russians on both sides of the border probably know more of what's going on than we do or what we are being told.
“Just like Saddam Hussein always got 99% of the vote in elections.
Yet, once he was down, the people showed what they REALLY thought of him”
LOL. I guess said people would give all they have to bring Saddam back today.
Stop reading these crappy Russian financed “news outlets”. In 1999-2008 their economy was growing due to unusually high prices of natural resources, once that's over they are collapsing. They hardly export anything else. There's been totally no progress in building up any real economy and their “religion” is ROC - KGB “church”, basically government's department of religion.
Question is, does it preach family and love your neighbor or harems and kill your infidel neighbors. Or as in the EU, where they preach nothing of value. Or as in the US, we are preached sodomy.
Some times the truth is hard to accept when things have changed so fast here in the last 30 years.
LOL, Russian turds complaining about propaganda!
I love it
“Some times the truth is hard to accept when things have changed so fast here in the last 30 years.”
Your vision of Russia simply has nothing to do with reality.
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