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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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To: SpeedyInTexas

+++++ Have great day Sir Speedy. I know I am


21 posted on 07/23/2022 10:15:53 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Reminds me of the lady with cancer who strolled around in the Capitol in early January and is now in jail.

Marxist fellow travelers (sputniki) all have similar behaviors.


22 posted on 07/23/2022 10:25:13 AM PDT by Srednik (Polyglot. Overeducated. Redeemed by Christ. Anticommunist from the womb.)
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To: ansel12

Some on FR don’t want to hear it or believe it, but yes RuZZian nationals are on FR using our freedoms to attack us. We know who most of them are.

Some others on FR are just angry and bitter.

I still believe in the goodness of America. The Shining City on a Hill - despite our problems.

I don’t hate the federal government. I don’t believe the federal government is the most corrupt on the planet.

I want my party, a party of conservatives to run the government.

I don’t wish death upon Democrats, I just want them to be defeated at the ballot box, defeated in the free debate of ideas.


23 posted on 07/23/2022 10:29:13 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (The Only Good RuZZian is a Dead RuZZian)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

After January 6, I don’t recall the U.S. imprisoning and killing dissidents who were not at the Capitol that day. That would be bringing up reality as reality, not exaggeration as truth.


24 posted on 07/23/2022 10:36:07 AM PDT by Widget Jr (Disobey your television.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

i think you are misreading where the US is on the life-cycle of a republic. I think it is MUCH later than you think.


25 posted on 07/23/2022 10:40:20 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: WoofDog123

The Republic will outlast my and your longevity on this planet. And our kids. And their kids.

The end of the world only comes once.


26 posted on 07/23/2022 10:43:05 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (The Only Good RuZZian is a Dead RuZZian)
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To: Widget Jr

I believe mostly when people say these (insulting) exaggerations it is because they are bored with their rich and safe life free of serious problems and oppression because they want to be the heroic main character in an epic story fighting injustice.

Same with these crazy SJW kids. They want to imagine themselves bravely marching in Selma, but sadly for them the racism has already largely been defeated so they invent all this new nonsense of “microaggressions” and whatnot.


27 posted on 07/23/2022 10:48:03 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: SpeedyInTexas
I don’t wish death upon Democrats

However, you do wish death upon Russians, even though they have less impact on your life and freedoms than Democrats do.

(They're also probably less liable to hate you than Democrats would.)

28 posted on 07/23/2022 11:09:48 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (There is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: Ultra Sonic 007

“However, you do wish death upon Russians”

Absolutely!

I would ally myself with a Democrat over a RuZZian.

Death to the RuZZian Nazis.


29 posted on 07/23/2022 11:13:37 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (The Only Good RuZZian is a Dead RuZZian)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

The Putin worshipping started when Obama was POTUS. It was love at first sight when those pics of a bare-chested Vlad on horseback came out. It was a silly meme in the beginning but now ghouls with sickness in their dark hearts cheer on Russia’s mass murder and genocide in Ukraine. Nothing conservative at all about that.


30 posted on 07/23/2022 11:21:26 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: lodi90

Some people were frequently posting Morning Star’s “America Bad” articles and said they really mean “Obama Bad”. Morning Star is a paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

That thing is still going on. Just last month some guy posted an article from a CPUSA-owned paper and it was well received by the usual ones.

Having that sort of material Russian influence agents don’t even have to work that hard.


31 posted on 07/23/2022 11:48:07 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: SpeedyInTexas
Give us the names of the antiwar Russian protesters rotting in prison and committing suicide like the J6 prisoners are.

The list of J6 protesters is very long, likely far longer than any Russian list one could come up.

We just had a man try to MURDER a GOP gubernatorial candidate, and released without having to post bail. Give us an example of Russia putting up with that.

It's telling you spend all your time spewing propaganda about Russia and none standing up to our corrupt criminal justice system and for our political prisoners.

32 posted on 07/23/2022 12:02:55 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: SpeedyInTexas

HOW LIFE CHANGED IN RUSSIA | In The Last 5 Months
INSIDE RUSSIA
Streamed live on Jul 18, 2022
https://youtu.be/qeF6uanPnTI


33 posted on 07/23/2022 2:21:30 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Nothing say christian values like warring on your christian neighbor and murdering your political opponents


34 posted on 07/23/2022 4:38:50 PM PDT by FreshPrince
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Yep i would Ally with my fellow countrymen too-even d3mocrats over a country that has nukes pointed at us.


35 posted on 07/23/2022 4:40:52 PM PDT by FreshPrince
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