SUNDAY APRIL 5 CONTENTS
(1) EDITORIAL: The Beeb and Mr. Medvedev
(2) EDITORIAL: Just When you think You’ve Seen Russia’s Worst
(3) Happy Birthday La Russophobe!
(4) More Economic Gibberish from Vladimir Putin
(5) Cherie Blair on Potemkin Putin
NOTE: Commenter “George” recommends the following online film on the history of Russian mass murder called “The Soviet Story” and we heartily concur. Mandatory viewing for those who want to understand where Russia has been and where it is going. Remember, while watching it, that today’s Russia is governed by a proud KGB spy who believes the fall of the USSR was a catastrophe and that the secret police can do no wrong.
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“The Soviet Story” was very enlightening, thank you for the link. Always wondered what happened to all those Russians who did the trigger pulling. Wouldn’t have imagined they think of themselves as honorable and heroic for all the torture and murder. What kind of a country produces people like that?
Most of those trigger-pullers and famine-organizers who are still alive continue receiving pensions that would be considered high anywhere in the West, not to mention Russia or Ukraine – and that for me speaks better than any words about the nature of political regimes in those countries, despite some obvious differences.
And, as usual, the records archives are sealed, in order to protect the guilty.
“There was no crime in the sovok union – only paradise.”
Recently (last week) Russia awarded post-mortem the Order of Honour to someone named Arnold Meri – a relative to the former president of Estonia.
This particular person was one of those people who organized mass repressions of Estonian population after Soviet rule was established there. He was accused in Estonia of genocide and was going to the court, though died before the ruling was out.
See?
Seems it takes just to be a war criminal to get honours from Putin’s Russia.
Of course you should be a war criminal on the “right” side.