Where in the World Is Alexander Podrabinek? Hopefully, Putin Doesn’t Know
Nashi, which is directly supported by the Kremlin, publicly accused him of “defiling the honor of veterans of the Great Patriotic War” and announced it would conduct protest activity at his home — clearly stating, in other words, that it knew where he lived. Its spokesman added: “We believe that people who insult veterans should not have the right to live here.”
Then the death threats starting rolling in. On Monday, he announced that he had “received information from reliable sources that at a senior level the decision has been taken to settle scores with me by any means.”
Given the statistics on the murder of Russian journalists and the power and connections of the Nashi fanatics, Podrabinek’s fears are clearly well-founded. The Telegraph reports: “In recent years Nashi waged a campaign against former British Ambassador Sir Anthony Brenton, which he described as ‘psychological harassment bordering on violence’ after he attended and spoke at opposition meetings. His car was followed and he was picketed on trips out of Moscow.”
Ever since Putin first came to power, we’ve seen one critic after another brutally murdered and not a single killing ever solved. The Kremlin has seized control of every mainstream media outlet and now, even though the vast majority of Russians can’t even go online, it is squaring off against the last vestige of critical reporting: Internet websites. Putin is reviving the Soviet state as fast as his limited resources will allow him.
And the world is just letting him do it. Instead of confronting Putin, U.S. President Barack Obama is offering him gifts of appeasement in the form of reduced military confrontation and ignoring the neo-Soviet crackdown. Given Russia’s deep and abiding hatred of America and her values and its willingness to support America’s most lethal enemies, Obama is clearly bequeathing a future conflict with Russia to America’s children just the same way Neville Chamberlain did.
But we must reserve our harshest scorn, of course, for the cowardly denizens of Russia who look the other way as Putin carries out his final solution for the problem of democracy. Their craven silence as sources of information are switched off and propaganda based on outright lies once again overwhelms them is truly nauseating. It is a betrayal of all the heroic Russians who struggled to resist the first Soviet dictatorship and gave their lives doing so.
Little wonder, given this crude backwardness, that Russia doesn’t rank in the top 130 nations of the world for adult lifespan. Indeed, given Obama’s cowardice, perhaps our best protection against the Russian menace is that they seem hell-bent on driving themselves into extinction.
Well, is more proof needed for Kasparov, Nemtsov, Bonner, Bukovsky, and the rest of the stalwart souls to be given aid
to rid Russia of the blight attributable to Medvedyev aka Zayets, Putyin and crowd?
A preparatory regime for the continent of Asia for those countries which do not measure up to the standard set by Sharansky and those like him, needs to be in place to help the stalwart folks of Solidarity, and they would be part of
the preparatory regime council.
Just take a look at the pages attributable to Franklin Delano Roosevelt in “Lost Crusade: America in Vietnam” by Chester L. Cooper to see the preliminary drafts, for what FDR was musing about for Vietnam, can be used continentally for Asia, South America and Africa, for those countries that do not measure up to the standard of human rights set by Sharansky, and those who agree with him.
The west seems to have very little stomach for standing up to evil these days! Our liberal elites can’t even accept the idea that such a thing as “evil” exists, never mind develop any strategy to oppose it!
Western enlightenment never really reached Russia. The attitudes and values of he people (from the leadership to the impoverished) are more in line with those of the Islamists than they are with the Europeans.
Russia is a lost cause.
Bukovsky: Putin and his entourage definitely are not governing.
I would imagine that governing is done by the top senior officers of the KGB, mostly generals I suppose. There are some rumors about an organization named SYSTEMA, which is run by former and active KGB generals, GRU generals, and some members of the military. It possibly looks like an arrangement for governing because Putin and his entourage definitely are not governing. That’s for sure.
On October 3rd several organizations and friends of freedom of speech and of Alexander Podrabinek himself started a collection of signatures under the appeal “FREEDOM TO WRITE, FREEDOM TO LIVE FOR SASHA PODRABINEK.” You can see the appeal and the signatures on http://www.idee.org/podrabinek%20appeal.html
You may sign and/or distribute the appeal…..
Campaign money must be raised within Russia.
If the US would start financing Kasparovs or others organizations,this would be the perfect motive for our state to ban all foreign NGOs,and all extremist organizations affiliated with it.
Russia is a democracy,but a robust one,it will not tolerate American fifth columnists and extremists.