Re: Russia's pipeline to Empire


Fingal schrieb:

> On 19 Dec 2005 03:47:53 -0800, "ladzius" <2130-690@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> >The democracy situation in Russia today is similar if not worse than
> >twenty years ago: the courts, the economy, the mass media firmly in
> >the hands of Kremlin, NGOs outlawed, independent media marginalised,
> >tiny democratic forces talking about uniting "to sink togehter".
> >I have little doubt that chanting "Democracy is always relative" you'd
> >welcome the return of Gulags to Russia and re-occupation of Baltic
> >states, if your find that "strengthened" in that way Russia would be
> >useful in your personal jihad against the USA.
> >
> >L.
>
> As bad as it is, how is it _worse_ than 20 years ago? 20 years ago,
> the Baltic States _were_ occupied, neither the courts nor the mass
> media had not even a _semblance_ of independence, tiny democratic
> forces were still largely afraid to talk at all, of "sinking together"
> or anything else, for that matter.

According to the current official Russian position Baltic States were
never occupied,
and it looks like the Russians today are much more ready to buy what
the official Kremlin says than 20 years ago. 20 years ago people like
Andrej Saharov had moral highground, and not only weren't they afraid
to talk, but their message started to come through - the jamming of
foreign senders has been abolished about that time. 20 years ago there
were shows like "Vzgliad" on TV and papers like "Moscow news" that
showed amazing degree of freedom and dealt with the hottiest subjects
of the day. Anyone critisising Putin/Kremlin/Gazprom/etc on Russian TV
today ?


> And, NGOs are not outlawed in today's Russia, nor will they be.

No, of course not, they just won't be allowed to have any money, the
rest will happen on it's own.

L.

.

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