Following Obama’s Kind Words, Putin’s Slaughter of Dissidents Continues
Here are a few lines from A RUSSIAN DIARY by Anna Politkovskaya who was killed by Putin’s people in 2006:
“The Presidential administration swings into action. In Tula the clowns have organized a meeting…the new approach of the presidential administration: meetings populated with ‘their’ people. Old folk are paid a fee to attend…the corrupting of our people continues, and our people are wholly willing to be corrupted.
“The meetings are organized by local authorities after a coordinating phone call from the Kremlin….governors who have grown fat from bribe taking waddle onto the platform…they promise, as they have been told to, that social welfare payments are on the point of being increased and that everything will again be exactly as it was before the law was passed. Dad after day these meetings are the lead item on the television news. February 3.”
Read A RUSSIAN DIARY…..
….and pretend if you can that the dynamics recorded by this martyred journalist are not happening in the United States right now.
7. Mike Murray…you are right on top of it. Read this book and expect to feel your skin crawling.
I was not anticipating that for myself. I simply wanted to read the book to inform myself about the experiences (and murder) of a Russian journalist post-Soviet Union and to try to understand Chechnya and Beslan better.
She simply records from day to day the events, the public comments, the private perceptions, the dug-up facts.
We are not imagining the smell in the air.
