Comments on: I expect better from the Medvedev brothers http://russian-front.com/2009/05/23/i-expect-better-from-the-medvedev-brothers/ Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:37:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: La Russophobe http://russian-front.com/2009/05/23/i-expect-better-from-the-medvedev-brothers/comment-page-1/#comment-216 La Russophobe Sat, 30 May 2009 15:39:43 +0000 http://russian-front.com/2009/05/23/i-expect-better-from-the-medvedev-brothers/#comment-216 I believe that, if you ask him, Dima Medvedev will kindly tell you that the official history of the USA has indeed been written . . . by the USSR. Make no mistake: Russia can't succeed in propounding the "correct" view of its history (innocence at Katyn and Holodomor, victory in WWII despite the collapse of the USSR and the vastly superior standard of living in "loser" France today, etc) unless it can enforce that version everywhere in the world, not just in Russia. That's why it's particularly unsettling to see the Putin regime reaching out its tentacles towards Facebook, for instance, and attempting to manipulate Western TV with the Russia Today propaganda network. And make no mistake: the Putin regime is prepared to enforce its verion of history not merely by using Siberian jail cells and kangaroo tribunals like the one you describe, but at gunpoint. Anna Politikovskaya and Stanislav Markelov were doing nothing more than trying to tell a version of Russian history at odds with the "correct" one, and they got shot in the head for doing so. As the hymn of the USSR plays for Russia at the Olympics, the world should hear a funeral dirge to Mr. Santayana, whose words about repeating history neo-Soviet Russians are not allowed to read. I believe that, if you ask him, Dima Medvedev will kindly tell you that the official history of the USA has indeed been written . . . by the USSR.

Make no mistake: Russia can’t succeed in propounding the “correct” view of its history (innocence at Katyn and Holodomor, victory in WWII despite the collapse of the USSR and the vastly superior standard of living in “loser” France today, etc) unless it can enforce that version everywhere in the world, not just in Russia. That’s why it’s particularly unsettling to see the Putin regime reaching out its tentacles towards Facebook, for instance, and attempting to manipulate Western TV with the Russia Today propaganda network.

And make no mistake: the Putin regime is prepared to enforce its verion of history not merely by using Siberian jail cells and kangaroo tribunals like the one you describe, but at gunpoint. Anna Politikovskaya and Stanislav Markelov were doing nothing more than trying to tell a version of Russian history at odds with the “correct” one, and they got shot in the head for doing so.

As the hymn of the USSR plays for Russia at the Olympics, the world should hear a funeral dirge to Mr. Santayana, whose words about repeating history neo-Soviet Russians are not allowed to read.

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