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June 24, 2007

Gravity Boots for Napoleone di Putin

 

 

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin once more shows us his roots. Yesterday he was caught feeding dialectical double speak that would have made his historical revisionist comrades who blotted out faces from pictures happy. And the Kremlin was so proud of its sentiment for misinformation, it actually posted the embarrassing speech on its website, according to News Ltd.

 

During the speech made at a social sciences conference apparently in Russia, Putin, who previosly has mentioned that he regrets the fall of the Soviet regime, stated that the United States was a much worse case on human rights than the Soviet Union. For instance, Putin cites the US for using Agent Orange and aerial bombardment in Vietnam and for using nuclear weapons against Japan during World War II, which are credited for saving millions of lives in a protracted guerilla war. "Sure, Stalin and Lenin had their 20-30 million innocent victims, but the US is still worse because I say so, and who here (in Russia) is going to say otherwise?" It seems from history that dictators (or those aspiring to be) usually begin making such absurd assertions when they become so full of themselves they think they might be able to trump all of it. (Beware!)

 

The color of communism should have been silver instead of red; silver as in mercury. It is, I believe, the only explanation for the complete insanity which seems to grip adherents to the ideology and everyone who looks nostalgically on it. After all, who would claim that Adolf Hitler’s crimes were less offensive than what the US did in the Vietnam War or World War II? If such a claim were outrageous, then how could it be remotely possible that Stalin in his purges which led to the murders of many more than Hitler could fare any better?

 

Vladimir Vladimirovich seems content to rattle off easily debunked claims obviously aimed at his domestic audience where there is no real free domestic press to give him a reality check and among his less-thank-brilliant followers abroad, which is, as nauseatingly always, that the king has no clothes; however the problem for him is that word still gets out – with particular thanks to the internet. Because of this fact – that the truth is freely available for those who wish to check – Mr. Putin has as much international credibility as the old Soviet dictators, and less domestically every day. The truth is that Russians (and most of the world) know better, so the spoonfeedings attract only the usual sycophants and anti-American zealots (Putin’s political coalition at home and abroad). Thus, all one can imagine Vlady the soon-to-be fully-functional dictator has earned is some newly invented Khrushchev Award for a not-so-high-minded disconnect with the truth. Let’s hope the Kremlin wakes up and locks up the little Napoleon look-alike in Lubyanka with his marble bust and the full-volume set of Solzhenitsyn’s work until he’s about 80. Truly political autism knows no borders.

 

 

Posted by Martin at June 24, 2007 11:24 PM

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Posted by: Angel at June 26, 2007 04:54 PM