Screw101
08-21-2009, 01:42 PM
Daily Mail excerpt from New Cold War .
Putin: the brutal despot who is dragging the West into a new Cold War.
Few things embodied Stalinist terror more than the midnight knock on the door.
For millions of innocent victims it heralded interrogation, torture and a lengthy - and all too often lethal - sentence in the Communist concentration camps of the Gulag.
Now the heirs of Stalin's secret police are running Russia - and there could be few clearer signs of their true nature than the British Council's Russian staff being hauled from their beds to answer for the "crime" of working for a foreign employer...
Yes, living standards in Russia have soared under Putin, and most Russians believe they are living in a golden age.
This is hardly surprising, given that the price of oil - a resource the country has had in abundance - has risen some five times since Putin came to power.
And in a country where the media has been annexed for pro-Putin propaganda, is it not understandable that his regime has popular support?
In truth, Russia is being run by a corrupt, incompetent and despotic regime, and the huge windfall of high oil prices is being squandered....
Read full article here:
http://edwardlucas.blogspot.com/2008/01/daily-mail-except-from-new-cold-war.html
Putin: the brutal despot who is dragging the West into a new Cold War.
Few things embodied Stalinist terror more than the midnight knock on the door.
For millions of innocent victims it heralded interrogation, torture and a lengthy - and all too often lethal - sentence in the Communist concentration camps of the Gulag.
Now the heirs of Stalin's secret police are running Russia - and there could be few clearer signs of their true nature than the British Council's Russian staff being hauled from their beds to answer for the "crime" of working for a foreign employer...
Yes, living standards in Russia have soared under Putin, and most Russians believe they are living in a golden age.
This is hardly surprising, given that the price of oil - a resource the country has had in abundance - has risen some five times since Putin came to power.
And in a country where the media has been annexed for pro-Putin propaganda, is it not understandable that his regime has popular support?
In truth, Russia is being run by a corrupt, incompetent and despotic regime, and the huge windfall of high oil prices is being squandered....
Read full article here:
http://edwardlucas.blogspot.com/2008/01/daily-mail-except-from-new-cold-war.html