Ziggy
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You know how many CIA we have in our congress and in the media spreading propaganda?Putin had nothing to do with it. He was a high-level KGB functionary at the time. In 1991, conservative Communists overthrew Gorbachev in an attempt to end "Glasnost" (openness) and "perestroika" (restructuring). The coup failed, mostly because Boris Yeltsen rallied Russian people, and in the process, many republics declared their independence. And that was the end of the Soviet Union, the final form of the Russian empire.
Russian history has always been a struggle between the Slavophils who favored a mythology of Russian supremacy, and the westernizers who sought a closer connection to the rest of Europe. Putin is a very traditional Slavophil. He has written that the disintegration of the Soviet Union was a disaster for Russia.
There was considerable jockeying, since Ukraine was left a nuclear power by the collapse of the Soviet Empire. I think you're talking about Crimea, which historically was not part of Ukraine. It had been attached to Ukraine by Khruschev, but was never ethnically Ukrainian.
Ukrainians have the same cultural relationship to Russia that Texas has to the rest of America. The land was settled by people who didn't get on well with civilization and rules. and headed to the frontier. John Fischer an American diplomat who served in Russia during and immediately after WWII, described them as "Texans in fur hats", which is pretty accurate. He wrote that Ukrainians were convinced that they had defeated the Nazis with some help from the rest of the Soviet Union, and nothing worth mentioning from the rest of the Allies.
If you can find a copy of Why They Behave Like Russians, it's a great and informative read about the Soviet Union in the late 1940s.
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So Putin was a KGB. There are spies everywhere.
Christopher Steele was an MI6 who fabricated trash with that Steele Dossier that was proven to be false.
So Putin was KGB, Big deal.
I don't know why people make such a big deal about that.
It's the ones you don't know about you have to worry about.
Remember this one?
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"A hundred different journalist are being directly paid by the CIA. Look at this. CIA intelligence officers, CIA assets, CIA agents just working hand-in-globe inside of newsrooms writing articles and producing the news. The CIA's
I don't know why they make such a big deal about Putin being an ex-KGB.
They are everywhere.