Posted on 04/01/2022 2:22:48 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
Despite NATO allies denouncing Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, an independent pollster in Moscow has found Russians rallying around the flag and giving Putin 83% approval on his actions, The New York Times reported Thursday.
The 83% approval is actually rising from his 69% in January before the invasion, according to the latest Levada Center poll.
The approval on Putin is up, along with many other government institutions and the governing party, according to the report.
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No Mo Globo HomoNazi In Russiao!
I doubt Russians caremuch about what NATO allies think
At least they don’t have the transgender mob, idiots on the Supreme Court, and Pocahontas preaching at them.
We are being LIED to about this war! Anyone the Left/Socialists/Communists support...I OPPOSE!!!
He has 2x the approval then the little girl sniffer in the WH.
Say what you want about him, Putin is for Russia, Russian culture, and Russians. (He is also for himself, I have no doubt).
Then contrast that with who we have. Someone who tries to hinder America at every turn, thinks American culture and history is flawed and needs to be ‘fixed’, and tends to blame Americans for the problems in the world.
From inside the KGB archives that were unsealed temporarily after the USSR fell, it was ‘widely known’ that NKVD members would watch to identify the first in a crowd to stop clapping, before party officials installed devices intended for the purpose of signaling when it was appropriate to stop clapping. Presumably this is why Stalin often received ostentatious ten, fifteen, or twenty minute standing ovations before and after certain speeches.
Outside of direct evidence to corroborate Solzhenitsyn’s claim, there is a wealth of circumstantial evidence widely known which is perhaps why this story was almost something of ‘lore’ among Soviet citizens. For example, the NKVD was known to interpret benign arbitrary actions as political disloyalty. Stalin, likewise, would sign what was the equivalent of death warrants without even reading the charges — much less affording the condemned anything that would resemble due process. Stalin was likewise famously paranoid, often killing off those who worked under him ‘just to be on the safe side’. In that way, there are a lot of circumstantial facts which would tend to suggest that this is something that would be likely to occur.
Sadly, most of Russian language primary source archival records respecting NKVD conduct in general, and NKVD conduct during the Stalin era respecting crimes against the Russian people, have since been closed since Putin came to power. While this is surely an unsatisfying answer, it is also a reality of the Putin government. However, what readers should realize is that while the “kill or imprison the first to stop clapping” notion was well known in among Soviet citizens, what is truth and what is rumor are sometimes but not always the same thing. Speaking candidly of the regime, or even a past regime, could cause very real trouble for a Soviet citizen, although to be on the safe side, people would clap until they were told otherwise just to be safe.
It is my view based on my knowledge of Soviet history that readers should consider that while Solzhenitsyn may not have been relaying first hand information, there is very little reason to doubt it’s accuracy when considering the surrounding circumstances as well as the nature of how the NKVD conducted its “affairs”. (Note: were the Russian government to take a position on the issue of Solzhenitsyn’s account’s validity, it is likely that they would be able to produce something which purported to be evidence to disprove the claim.)
Is this like Iraq, where Saddam Hussein always got 99% of the vote??
btw, people are always afraid to speak against a murderous dictator ...
Yawn.
Or like American selections in blue cities?
Look to your own Prime Minister.
So now “regime change” and “military coup” coming to Russia? Fed.gov and mainstream media said it was coming.
[Yawn.]
...... The media in russia is controled by the Putinista Gov’t and spews out whatever propaganda is needed to prop up and support the Big Man himself ..... You know ... Kinda like the media has magically transformed into in this country ......
On the flip side do you believe Demented Joe is near 40% ? And were, besides here, can we freely complain about this old psycho?
Well if this doesn’t prove that we need to nuke the Roooshans, I don’t know what does.
You might look to some of the US Government Records sealed by the White House and Directors of US Government Alphabet Agencies, but then I wouldn’t expect a Traitor Deep Swamp Shill to do that.
That, I can confirm, however I don't know how much the Russian media is corrupted, one way or the other.
Putin is very well admired here on free republic.
I never had any idea how many conservatives adore Putin.
It now makes perfect sense why Hillary tried to smear Conservatives with putin.
Her campaign must read free republic.
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