Posted on 06/12/2022 6:54:23 AM PDT by libstripper
As the mournful notes of the cello brought the four minutes of The Dying Swan to a close at The Hague on January 24, 1931, the audience was in tears. Throughout the performance, there had been no dancer — only a moving spotlight emphasizing the absence of Anna Pavlova, the ballerina the world loved. She had died the day before, of a mysterious lung infection that began almost immediately after her train had left Paris. She'd told doctors she suspected she'd been poisoned. Unable to reach a diagnosis, they treated her symptoms but failed to save her.
For Soviet émigrés of the time, the empty stage, the melancholic music, and the spotlight sans performer were poignant symbols of the hundreds of thousands of "liternoye" killings — secret, disguised liquidations staged as natural deaths or suicides — ordered by Joseph Stalin. His targets were not just rivals in the USSR, but also dissident writers, intellectuals, artists, and performers living abroad. In fact, from the 1920s to the outbreak of World War II, while Stalin was carrying out purges in the USSR, the émigré community witnessed several mysterious deaths and disappearances.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The article opens by detailing Soviet Russian murders of dissidents, a practice that contiunues with the Putin dictatorship.
There were dozens of US funded “defensive” biolabs discovered in Ukraine. The good news is all the workers and guards at those labs have been captured or killed.
This could easily be overlaid over events in the US, including killings.
Thanks for the heads up. I just ordered the book.
Give it a rest. You know nothing about Putin or Russia except what the MSM and Neocons have fed you. As between Russia and the US, the worse regime is here. Demonizing Putin is just a distractor used by the left in this country to divert attention away from the evil the infests OUR government and institutions.
“Give it a rest.”
Make me.
“This could easily be overlaid over events in the US, including killings.”
The US does indeed assassinate our enemies. It’s true. But we do not assassinate dissidents, at least not so far. Soviet Russia has long conducted assassinations of dissident refugees as an object lesson to other such refugees to maintain their silence.
Yuri Andropov was probably the most successful organizer of KGB assassination missions on foreign soil. It should be noted that Putin idolized Andropov and when Putin seized power in Soviet Russia he restored Andropov’s memory as someone to be revered.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/putin-puts-yuri-andropov-back-on-his-pedestal-1.1145047
Putin is not nearly the operational master that Andropov was with several failed poisonings under his belt, a couple ham-handed assassination attempts, and several captured assassins ending up in foreign intelligence agency custody.
Andropov’s only quasi-failure of note was a failed attempt on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn circa 1975 that resulted in the arrest of some twelve Soviet agents who were later exchanged for Western spies.
Putin fancies himself as superior to Andropov but that’s just not the case. Andropov had no where near the ego that Putin has and he preferred for people to think of him as calm, rational, and intellectual. Putin is just a rank bully.
Had Andropov been around there would have been no war in Ukraine because Ukraine would have never escaped Moscow’s grasp in the first place.
If you’re mentally challenged, there’s easier ways to admit it. Worry about your own gov.
If he’s unwilling, I will happily oblige. You’ll have to come up to northern Alberta though. I’m quite busy. Let me know in advance and I’ll schedule you in.
“If he’s unwilling, I will happily oblige. You’ll have to come up to northern Alberta though. I’m quite busy. Let me know in advance and I’ll schedule you in.”
You live in Trudeau’s Dictatorship of Canada so the worst thing I could ever do to you is...nothing.
All necessary given that the Russians have have always had an advanced BCW program and have a history of violating bioweapons treaties before the ink was even dry.
One Andrew Breitbart.
It’s ok, It’s Alberta, we’re worse than Texas, just don’t delay.
Be careful what you post or the minders from the RCMP or the CSIS will come visit you.
Not saying that in jest, either. Friend of mine is retired PPCLI and got arrested for posting things the pukes up there didn’t like. He’s in the US now. Good troop, too.
Golly... Did you just get your TRT shot?
I’m former PPCLI 2nd battalion. They’ve already called. They’re a bunch of damn pussies
“I’m former PPCLI 2nd battalion. They’ve already called. They’re a bunch of damn pussies.”
LOL, you sure are PPCLI! (-:
Never seen so few people do so much with so little as you guys.
It was the army way, adapt and overcome.
Now it’s gone all woke tard.
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