EDITORIAL
Russia is a Nation of Barbarians
Last week in Russia, a military officer got mad at his live-in girlfriend and decided that to punish her he’d throw her eight-year-old twins out the window of the their eighth-floor apartment. Meanwhile, in a scene right out of Sweeney Todd, a trio of Russian homeless men killed a 25-year-old and ate him. What they couldn’t finish, they butchered and sold to a kebab restaurant, which turned the victim into pies.
Lest you think these are somehow aberrations which are abhorred by Russia’s general population, just check out the most recent op-ed in Prague Watchdog from the website’s editor-in-chief, the hero journalist Andrei Babitsky, which we republish below in today’s issue. Babitsky shows how the once mighty and independent NTV television network, now controlled by the Kremlin, has published a propaganda diatribe praising notorious war criminal Colonel Yuri Budanov, a rapist, murderer and torturer who savagely terrorized innocent civilians in Chechnya for years and who is treated as national hero by Russians and their government. Think viewers will utter a peep of protest? Think again.
That’s not even to mention the fact that two black people are lynched every week in Russia, without any significant public opposition. It says nothing about the fact that Russians have “freely” chosen to be ruled over by a proud member of the same secret police organization that butchered millions of Russians and bankrupted the USSR. It overlooks the barbaric series of murders that has shadowed that secret policeman, Vladimir Putin, from his first days in the Kremlin, from Galina Starovoitova to Natalia Estemirova. And it doesn’t speak about the fact that Russians are busily turning Josef Stalin into national hero, next stop Orthodox sainthood.
It all points to just one conclusion: Russia is a nation of barbarians who simply do not wish to become civilized and who simply do not care how many innocent lives are sacrificed to their wanton savagery. Until the people of Russia are willing to speak out and show the world this image of them is wrong, no rational person can think of them otherwise.
18 responses so far ↓
KGB comrade // November 16, 2009 at 6:55 am |
Civilization is performing ecological genocide on the planet. Barbarism is a superior system.
Andrew // November 16, 2009 at 7:26 am |
Obviously retard boy has nit closely examined the Russian legacy of environmental destruction and pollution.
The death of the Aral sea, the poisoning of huge tracts of land in Russia and all other Soviet republics through industrial pollution, and even the deliberate fire bombing of ancient Georgian forests and national parks in August 2008.
KGB comrade // November 16, 2009 at 11:34 pm |
Yo, retard. Russia emits about 5% of the world’s CO2. The West – the US, EU and Japan, more like 50%. Have fun in your future greenhouse!, while Russia becomes climatically quite pleasant.
LES // November 17, 2009 at 2:57 am |
Go swim in the Techa river.
Turtler // November 17, 2009 at 7:41 am |
Superior in the “survival of the fittest” terms, perhaps, but that hardly justifies it.
I`m Russian (Thanks Got) // November 16, 2009 at 11:26 am |
http://www.examiner.com/x-27874-Alameda-County-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m11d13-Berlin-Wall-comes-down-but-myths-still-stand
La Russophobe // November 16, 2009 at 11:36 am |
Are you suggesting Col. Budanov is a “myth”?
Stalin was also a “myth,” right?
And the USSR only seemed to collapse, didn’t really, right? It was a big success!
RV // November 16, 2009 at 7:36 pm |
This moron does not even know what his source is — the Alameda County Progressive! (As if adding “progressive” to “Alameda County” were not a redundancy in itself). That’s the place for the Oakland socialists and Berkeley radicals. Everything the United States does is wrong, oppressive, unbearable. Emma Goldman and Angela Davis would be proud
KGB comrade // November 16, 2009 at 11:33 pm |
You are a reactionary thug.
Andrew // November 17, 2009 at 5:05 am |
And you are a retard (and like most KGB thugs probably a sexual deviant) whats your point?
A. // November 17, 2009 at 7:00 pm |
In all fairness, Emma Goldman probably never imagined her face would end up adorning the T-shirts of spoiled suburban brats whose “bourgeois” parents can afford their $30-40,000 a year education. Angela Davis, on the other hand, who chairs a useless but over-funded graduate program at UC Santa Cruz, and whose social privilege and celebrity status helped her get away with murder decades ago, represents everything that’s wrong with the contemporary American “left”.
RV // November 17, 2009 at 11:32 pm |
Yes, I agree. If California paid to relocate UC Santa Cruz to Havana, they would save lots of taxpayer money afterwards not having to support those useful leeches. And the school would feel right at home in Havana
RV // November 17, 2009 at 11:32 pm |
Of course I meant useless leeches not useful. My bad
A. // November 18, 2009 at 1:06 am |
Yeah, but ranting against the “prison-industrial complex” is no fun when you aren’t making a few hundred thousand a year anymore, and when you risk actual prison if you engage in the same antics as in the US. Despite all their babble, none of these “radical” academics would ever move to their beloved North Korea, Cuba, Russia, Iran etc.
Robert // November 17, 2009 at 8:15 am |
Hey, keep feeding your trolls. Come on.
bandarlogician // November 17, 2009 at 4:25 pm |
I’m not claiming your wrong, I’m just asking: what’s your source for the lynching statistics?
A. // November 17, 2009 at 7:01 pm |
Try this for instance: http://xeno.sova-center.ru/6BA2468/6BB41EE (a Russian source)
Andrew // November 18, 2009 at 7:21 am |
Vaclav Havel attacks Russia on anniversary of Velvet Revolution
Vaclav Havel, the dissident who led Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution, has used the 20th anniversary to warn Russia remains a threat despite the demise of the Soviet Union.
By Matthew Day in Prague
Published: 7:34PM GMT 17 Nov 2009
The 73-year-old who played a pivotal role in freeing his country from communist rule in 1989, said that the Russian government had mastered the art of manipulating its population while maintaining democratic façade.
“The era of dictatorships and totalitarian systems has not ended at all,” he said.
“It may have ended in a traditional form as we know it from the 20th century, but new, far more sophisticated ways of controlling society are being born.
“It requires alertness, carefulness, caution, study and a detached view.”
His warning came as Czechs took to the streets of Prague in their thousands to celebrate the Velvet Revolution that swept the socialist state into the history books in a few weeks.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/czechrepublic/6591292/Vaclav-Havel-attacks-Russia-on-anniversary-of-Velvet-Revolution.html