Posted on 07/26/2007 5:43:10 AM PDT by JohnA
In an interview with German Der Spiegel magazine, famous Russian writer and the Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, has accused the West of trying to ignore and sideline Russia. He said that quite often western criticism is unfair. Russia is only starting to build democracy and it's all too easy to take it to task with a long list of omissions, violations and mistakes. Mr. Solzhenitsyn has reproached U.S for its inability to demonstrate goodwill for Mr. Putin`s friendly steps. In his opinion, only a psychological inadequacy or a disastrous shortsightedness can explain such approach. Alexander Solzhenitsyn praises Vladimir Putin for rebuilding the country.
Putin is trying to restore pride in his country. If he is more authoritarian, it is because traditionally, that is what the Russian people have wanted AND needed. They are a different mold from us, and cannot be judged by our standards of democracy.
“Putin is trying to restore pride in his country. If he is more authoritarian, it is because traditionally, that is what the Russian people have wanted AND needed.”
I’ve always known that, but have had a hard time understanding it. I used to think that all people are basically the same, but I learn more each day. It is hard to understand how the former Soviets can look back and yearn for the days of Stalin?
Please provide Putin’s rank and job description while with the KGB.
They certainly have a different history than you do if that’s what you mean. And you have these two important historic allies: Pacific and Atlantic, yes?
“chatboards”
What country did you learn to speak like that?
Solzi was always a vehement nationalist and never really took the Kremlin to task for the genocide of 12 million Ukrainians and Germans in 1921 and 1932.
Neither did he ever credit the Gulag underground that was run by Ukrainians for saving his butt.
You,sir...I must admit...are correct.There are two glaring,despicable inaccuracies in my post.First of all it was Estonia,*not* Ukraine,that had its embassy blockaded by Russian punk thugs not long ago and it was Estonia,*not* Ukraine,that had its internet service brought to a halt while Moscow was beside itself with rage because a Russian monument,which represented the filthy repression that Estonians had suffered at the hands of the "USSR" for 50+ years,was moved by the government of the newly free people of Estonia.
And,second,it was *not* plutonium that was used by Russian agents,on *British* soil,to silence (permanently) a vocal and highly credible critic of Putin....it was polonium.
I'm hanging my head in shame...as I type...for having written such scurrilous,filthy lies about that fine gentleman in Moscow.
An interesting view. Not compelling but interesting.
“I suppose if you’d have been invaded a few times, and you took heavy hits,”
Another Kremlin Myth - it was Ukrainians and Poles that shed the most blood during WWII.
http://www.infoukes.com/history/ww2/page-29.html
I like Estonians. I daresay there are many Russians who do too.
“You might try visiting the country someday.”
Only my father and mother managed to escape in 1939 - we saw the rest of the family for the first time 30 years later.
I know the evil that Russia is.
Putin is not a Communist, he is a Russian nationalist. There is something in the Russian psyche that demands they must be a “maverick” country, just for the sake of being mavericks.
Churchill put it best, “Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” That has not changed one iota.
Hey Tex - do you have a Russian wife by any chance?
“If he is more authoritarian, it is because traditionally, that is what the Russian people have wanted AND needed”
Are you including the 20 million Ukrainians that the Kremlin Killed?
You are clearly an agent of the Kremlin and I dont think you belong here.
“The Russian people are also the most SPIRITUAL”
BWAHAHAHAHA - you mean morally bankrupt.
“Please provide Putin’s rank and job description while with the KGB.”
Why? You go find it if you want to know.
John,
If you are Canadian, Why then are all your posts in support of Putie?
Methinks you are a Putietrolli.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?id=147871;more=48709547
he’s a troll.
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