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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door tomm

Iedereen in Rusland kan kritiek hebben op Putin zonder gevolgen. En dat gebeurt ook, er is een actieve oppositie. Wie jaagt hij weg? De relaties met landen als China waren nog nooit zo goed, ook de heropstanding van de Sovjet-Unie in de vorm van de Euraziatische Unie maakt vorderingen. Feit is dat Putin's beleid Rusland geen windeieren gelegd heeft.

Zoals Geert al schreef : er is geen enkele vorm van echte oppositie die wordt toegestaan. Mensen zoals Nemtsov, Kasparov, Navlany worden opgejaagd door de media en door de poppenkast-justitie vervolgd of gewoon afgeknalt voor muren van het kremlin.
Dat zijn de feiten, duizenden jongeren die geen enkel heil zien in de valse maffia-economie van rusland vluchten naar het westen waar je wel een goede job kunt vinden als je capaciteiten hebt maar geen connecties.

En over 'windeieren' : vertel dat eens aan de honderden russische moeders wiens zonen gestorven zijn in Donbas het laatste jaar?
Of aan de aandeelhouders van Gazprom?
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2015/07...zprom-problems

Dit artikel van Sergey Kovalyov is zeer to-the point en absoluut lezenswaardig :

http://www.rferl.org/content/comment.../27160978.html

[quote][Throughout its history, my country -- the Soviet Union -- conducted cruel and arbitrary mass purges; participated in international political terrorism; fostered new totalitarian regimes; committed aggression; and violated fundamental principles of law. Russia has returned to that behavior./QUOTE]

One of the main myths is that Russia (the U.S.S.R.) freed the world from fascism. That is not true. Since the mid-19th century, Russia, the Soviet Union, and the current Russian Federation have never freed anyone. What they have done was enslave people, including their own population.

The Tsar-Liberator Alexander II, who abolished serfdom in 1861, was assassinated by terrorists who brazenly called themselves "The People's Will."

It's true that Hitler's army was drowned in Soviet blood and buried under Soviet corpses. It's true that Europe and the United States did less than they could and should have done during World War II. But that is a completely different matter. The definitive motives for the Soviet Union's major role in the military victory were not at all liberation. The peoples of Eastern Europe and Germany, who were ruled by two successive tyrants -- Hitler and Stalin -- should remember this.

There was a time when Europe imagined that the Cold War ended with the demolition of the Berlin Wall. It's not true. Russia only took a breather. Imagine a postwar Germany that left the Gestapo untouchable. Or a Stasi lieutenant colonel chancellor of Germany. That is and will be the Russia with which you seek partnership and mutual understanding. Right now, it will play fair only if forced to do so. It cannot be persuaded to do so. (Note that "forced to make peace" is a concept understood by the United Nations.)

Many are ready to make concessions to Russia, arguing that a cornered rat is dangerous. That's true. But you must remember: a rat, whether cornered or left in peace, is still a powerful carrier of plague. The plague under discussion has lasted almost a hundred years and has killed millions of people. The choice is limited -- you either fight the plague, or, in the words of Pushkin, you "feast in the time of plague."