TRUMP APPARENTLY THINKS THAT PUTIN’S KILLING OF JOURNALISTS IS ACCEPTABLE

….Those that don’t agree with this man, just happen to regularly die.

 

Those that “control the present control the past” and in Russia…..Putin controls the present.

 

George Orwell wrote in his famous book “1984”: “ Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

 

This is a perfect example of the man that Donald Trump admires that also is the thug that controls Russia.

 

Modern tyrannies like Russia depend on their control of their nation's memories. This is why Russia’s Supreme Court recently upheld the conviction of a blogger for violating Article 354.1 of Russia’s criminal code.

 

The convicted blogger’s crime was to correctly post that: “The [Soviet] communists and Germany jointly invaded Poland, sparking off the Second World War.” The Russian court today insists that the Russian Communists had nothing to do with starting WWII.  That would mean that the secret agreements that the rest of the world is aware of between Russia and Germany with their Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, that legendary agreement is today being totally ignored by Vladimir Putin’s administration.  As Orwell stated: Those that “control the present control the past” and Putin controls the present.

 

The Russian court’s ruling on the conviction is a window into the sinister continuity of Putin’s Russia and the Soviet system that made him.

 

What most Americans don’t understand about Mr. Putin, is that he is basically a man overwhelmed with resentments acquired when he was a KGB operative, or “a devoted officer of a dying empire”.  This has been Putin’s problem ever since the wall in East Germany came down as his beloved Soviet Union was dissolving.

 

Is has been shown many times that there could not have been so many coincidences of Russian deaths as are stated today, of most of those that have had any ability to publicize their negative attitude toward Mr. Putin.  Those people just happen to regularly either die, or are assassinated or they just disappear….?

 

It has been suggested for today's American Democratic presidential nominee that she should read the New York Times, Steven Lee Myers book, “The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin”.  This will explain to her Putin’s current resentments and his desires for putting a version of the former Soviet Union back together.

 

But there is nothing being recommended for Mr. Trump to read, as he is the individual that admires this Russian thug.  Because as Trump declares, “at least he’s a real leader.”

 

How Putin really feels is demonstrated by the fact that on his desk, since his first day as Russia’s leader, sits the bronze statue of “Iron Felix Dzerzhinsky”.  He was the founder of the Soviet secret police and its terror apparatus. 

 

As to those killed journalists, bloggers and opponents of Putin, there was the 2006 assassination in Moscow, that just happened to be on Putin’s 54th birthday.  This was the death of the troublesome journalist Anna Politkovskaya.  When asked about the frequent deaths of anti-Putin journalists, Donald Trump breezily just says, “I think that our country does plenty of killing.”  Then there was the 2006 poisoning in London of Putin’s antagonist, Alexander Litvinenko, who died from being poisoned using radioactive polonium 210. This just happens to be the killing tool of choice back in Putin’s Soviet KGB.

 

Ah yes, all those weird coincidences….and these are just two of 12 questionable Russian deaths or disappearances?

 

Putin’s Russia, outside of Russia, is referred to laughingly as a “managed democracy”.  In reality it is Stalinism with a dose of thugocracy and a hint of kleptomania, as in Putin's going into the Crimea is the first push on the door of what remains of the Ukraine.

 

And this is the so called “leader” that Donald J. Trump admires.

 

God help us all, if Trump gets into the White House.

 

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