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Russia’s Wartime Crackdown Widens as Kremlin Demands Full Loyalty
WSJ ^ | 23-JUL-2022 | Evan Gershkovich

Posted on 07/23/2022 8:52:34 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas

In late June, Russian security agents took physicist Dmitry Kolker from his hospital bed in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, where he was being treated for stage-four pancreatic cancer, and whisked him on a four-hour flight to a Moscow prison on charges of treason.

Mr. Kolker, who at that point was being fed through a tube, died behind bars three days later.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dictatorship; putin; russia; stalinist; tyranny; ukraine
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1 posted on 07/23/2022 8:52:34 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
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Archived version: https://archive.ph/PNGib


2 posted on 07/23/2022 8:52:49 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (The Only Good RuZZian is a Dead RuZZian)
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As opposed to the Ukraine where dissent against the Zelensky’s war is met with open arms, and even encouraged.


3 posted on 07/23/2022 8:56:01 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Russia is just following our lead.

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-political-prisoners-of-january-6th/


4 posted on 07/23/2022 8:56:16 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Contempt for pre-born human life breeds contempt for post-born human life.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Appears Pelosi and Putin have a lot in common!


5 posted on 07/23/2022 8:57:10 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yeah, we can talk in America.

If you want to track the most evil and corrupt government in existence, you don’t need to look further than Washington D.C.


6 posted on 07/23/2022 8:59:20 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: BenLurkin

In the end, the repression will drive RuZZians to leave and immigrate to the West.

A RuZZia with declining population is in our interest.

“The fewer RuZZians in this world, the safer we will all be”.


7 posted on 07/23/2022 8:59:45 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (The Only Good RuZZian is a Dead RuZZian)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

“If you want to track the most evil and corrupt government in existence, you don’t need to look further than Washington D.C.”

Does that include when Reagan and Trump were in charge of the executive branch?

Does that include when Trump or DeSantis is President in 2024?


8 posted on 07/23/2022 9:01:20 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (The Only Good RuZZian is a Dead RuZZian)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

So Russia is at war? I thought it was just a special military operation.


9 posted on 07/23/2022 9:02:24 AM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Yeah and im suppodsed to believe the useful idiots here that putins russia is so much more moral and
righteous compared to the west


10 posted on 07/23/2022 9:05:34 AM PDT by FreshPrince
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To: FreshPrince

One the other day said he was establishing an “Orthodox Christian Empire” that would restore the world to good values.


11 posted on 07/23/2022 9:18:48 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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“One the other day said he was establishing an “Orthodox Christian Empire” that would restore the world to good values.

No better way to watch them rogue Christians then to shut down their churches and provide a government-run church to which most would come to worship.


12 posted on 07/23/2022 9:23:43 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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We’re doing it with the RINO’s.


13 posted on 07/23/2022 9:24:58 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Good enough justification to start WW-III.


14 posted on 07/23/2022 9:26:27 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

A simple enough article about Russia but it has triggered post after post of irrelevant anti-America remarks and cracks.

The anti-Americanism is getting out of hand at FR, it is no longer anti-Democratic party or anti-liberalism, now it is white hot hatred of us all here as a nation.


15 posted on 07/23/2022 9:47:24 AM PDT by ansel12 ( Kill a Commie for Mommy, proud NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

When it was Trump, he never controlled the government, not for one single day. The American political establishment still called most of the shots - and yes the U.S. political establishment is the most corrupt and evil in the world - as it was during Trump’s presidency. Under Reagan, it was a different generation entirely, one with some decency and belief in the American system - not completely bought into totalitarianism as those in power today - so under Reagan in the 80’s, no it wasn’t. But believing that this government has anything at all in common with America in the 80’s is both delusional and living in a past that no longer exists.

And yes the government of the United States is today the most evil and corrupt on Earth - and it isn’t even close - give them a handful more years in power they will become the most evil and corrupt in the history of civilization.


16 posted on 07/23/2022 9:52:11 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: BenLurkin

It is not Zelensky, who makes this war. The war of course is made by Putin.

When it comes to Zelensky then he is not the one making the Ukrainians fight. If he were to tell Ukrainians to surrender then people would just remove him because they want to fight for their freedom.


17 posted on 07/23/2022 10:03:18 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: MercyFlush
Here is a chart I have found handy when evaluating what Russia says.


18 posted on 07/23/2022 10:07:16 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Are they Putanistas or Putanas or both? My vote is both.


19 posted on 07/23/2022 10:13:05 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: Krosan

++++++++++ Plus


20 posted on 07/23/2022 10:13:45 AM PDT by dennisw
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