Vladimir the Savior

http://www.unz.com/article/vladimir-the-savior/

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Now let us turn to Russia. What the critics just cannot comprehend is that the Russian people do not want them. Navalny urged the EU not to recognize the elections because he was not allowed to run. What arrogance. Does he think that if he was allowed to run he would have won? No way, he has nothing to offer, just rallies, empty words that everything is bad, that you see corruption, theft, and no choice. These are the favorite themes of those so called democrats.

So let me remind them what was real corruption, what was real theft and what was real no choice before Putin.

When they were in power, the Westernizers, the friends of America, the free marketers, in the early 1990s, they plunged the country into shock therapy: prices skyrocketed, people lost their life savings. Factories closed, salaries were not paid, and starvation and poverty hit the country. Criminal gangs divided up the peoples’ property. A bunch of oligarchs privatized what was built over the Soviet years. Suddenly, there appeared huge corporations with Western participation that began to own Russian natural resources: Russian aluminum, steel, everything. Tens of billions of stolen assets were moved overseas through a myriad of off shore schemes. The Westernizer rulers of Russia proved themselves to be stooges of Western companies, thieves and robbers of natural resources. Elections showed a dozen parties of all kinds including for example the Love beer party. In the provinces, power was usurped by mafia bosses, criminal gangs, who terrorized opponents, killed journalists, turned kindergartens into private mansions, created private armies that disregarded local police. In some places they turned police into auxiliary criminal force.

Quote:The country descended into chaos, rape, murder skyrocketed, birthrate fell, pensions unpaid, education collapsed, army was taken over by a selling spree on a worldwide scale. Military plants stayed idle, and so many talented engineers left the country.

In politics there was a president who opened live fire on the parliament and had it stormed with hundreds killed. Constitution was altered without any proper procedure. The Constitutional Court was ignored and disbanded. The elections of 1996 were stolen, and to add humiliation to national pride the Russians saw their president drunk, conducting an orchestra playing for Russian troops departing from Germany. On top of it all, the President started a disastrous war in Chechnya, a real war inside the Russian Federation borders. The West applauded and received him in the White house and cheered him as a true leader of Russian democracy. Were they blind? Why did they refuse to see what was going on in Russia? Probably because deep down, they loved it. Russia was destroying itself and that was good for what was thought to be a coming American Century.

Russia was disappearing as a nation. Its future and very survival was in doubt. The demographic situation saw steady decrease of population, steady fall of birth rates and increase of death rates and massive outflow of people and capital to the West.

Western banks got Russian money and Western firms got Russian specialists. In this catastrophic situation comes VLADIMIR THE SAVIOR.

Quote:Yes he was not alone. Yes, the ouster of Yeltsyn was probably done through difficult negotiations and powerful political forces behind the scenes. But the result was that Russia received a new government that started to put humpty dumpty together again. Slowly, step by step, without rough quick moves, He recreated what he called the pivot of power. Russia received a state that began to fulfill its functions: to restore law and order, to cleanse the police, the army and the bureaucracy. New economic policy legitimized the questionable privatization in exchange for stopping or curbing capital flight and acceptance of the principle Primacy of the State. Oligarchs’ power was broken, some of the worst ones, fled the country, others accepted new rules of the game, those that did not, were jailed. Mafia bosses in the provinces were replaced; salaries were beginning to be paid, pensions likewise. The law was beginning to be taken seriously for the first time since the Bolshevik revolution.

It was an uphill battle and at every stage and every year we heard the same story from the so called liberals, still too much corruption, still too much theft. The implicit answer was patience and hard work. To uproot corruption it was necessary to create new ethical norms and those would come with new pride in the nation, with positive example from peers and enforcement of law for all, not for the privileged few.

What Putin has accomplished or what Russia has accomplished since 2000 is astonishing. It amounts to a political, economic, and moral revolution. Any aspect of Russia’s existence you take, you see measurable progress. The standard of living has grown, pensions are payed, factories are working, and unemployment is lower than in most European countries. Life expectancy has steadily increased, birth rates have increased, and incomes have increased. Education is back, Russian research and development is back again, one of the best in the world and not staffed by foreigners who flock to Silicon valley, but staffed by Russians educated in Russia.

Quote:Military technology made a breakthrough of historical significance. For the first time ever Russia has weapons superior to those of the US, not to mention Britain, France and Germany combined.

For the first time in a hundred years Russian agriculture is producing for export and for the first time ever, Russia exported more grain that the US.

Russian culture is flowering again, the spurt of creativity is breath taking. Look at the Russian theater, more than 30 plays in big cities every single day with a repertoire that changes daily. By contrast in Washington there is one theater Arena Stage and in Boston-Cambridge also one, Repertoire theatre. In New York you have mostly the same musicals that run for months. In most American cities, there are no theatres at all. Russian dance, ballet, songs, and poetry is back again as in the good old times. Russia is experiencing a true new renaissance. Most importantly, for the first time since a long time Russians can be proud to be Russian. They do not need to look at accomplishments of the West. For the first time in its history Russia can show that what it has is truly Russian, unique and beautiful, a unity of the nation that has overcome a very difficult period. Putin’s victory is much much more than a victory of a candidate in elections. It is a triumph of the nation that found strength to come together again to find unity and rally around the leader who saved the country from the abyss it faced.What the western critics do not comprehend is that Russia has overcome its turbulence, has come out of the crisis, has discovered a new path.

Of course it is not just Putin. It is the creativity of the nation. It is the talents of millions, it is the Presidents’ team. But still, the leadership counts for a lot. Look at our ex-Soviet neighbors. Ukraine is still in the hands of the thieves and oligarchs. Worse, it was hi-jacked by neo-Nazis. Look at the Baltics, that like to think of itself as a success story. In fact, these republics are ruled by scared nationalistic elites that had sold out national sovereignty to Germany and US. Their young people are fleeing as soon as they have a chance to wealthy Europe. They are totally dependent on Western investment Western everything. Is that the independence they sought? Moreover, they are deluding themselves that they are ahead and they are free and that beyond is wild uncivilized Russians. I once talked to a neighbor in the airplane to Vilnius and he seriously was telling me that they Lithuania were the last bulwark against the Russian hordes, ready to jump onto Europe. Truly, I was disappointed in Vilnius: it looks like a provincial Soviet town, sleepy and deserted. Coming to Moscow after Vilnius is like coming to New York from Oklahoma.

So Russia under Vladimir the Savior has accomplished unimaginable. When I was young in the 1970s Soviet Union we dreamed of a Russia free from aging gerontocracy of Soviet regime, free from censorship, a country of freedom, prosperity and democracy. Well now the dream is pretty much come true. Russia is free and sovereign and proud and strong, everything one can dream of. One has to be either stupid or blind not to see it.

You're quite right and what Russia experience before has also been experienced by my country, the Philippines. For such a long time big Western and European corporations sucked our natural resources while oligarchs monopolized our industries and the corrupt top government official steal the people's money and manipulated the system to be billionaires. These government officials became protectors of big time drug syndicates and because of their greed of money and power they the our country became a country of drug addicts and illegal vices.
And when the Isis and other terrorist groups saw that, they launched an attack to conquer one of our provinces to rule over it.

All of these things stopped when our present president Rodrigo Duterte took office.
He literally destroyed terrorism here in our country killing more than 1000 isis terrorist thereby liberating one of our provinces.
He is called the Terminator because when he acts, he solves the problem by literally terminating the ones involve. He has this saying "If You Hurt My Country, If you hurt the Filipino People, I will Kill You".

While killing off thousands of terrorists he also started a countrywide anti-drug campaign, where notorious drug syndicate leaders, drug importers, small and big-time drug traffickers, users, and high ranking government officials like mayor's, governors, congressmen who are connected to these drug cartels have been terminated. When I say terminated they weren't assassinated, they where given a chance airing in national tv he said "surrender and go to jail or leave the country and live another day or else" , after several months 10000 where terminated.

A good example of what terminated means is several mayor's and governors of provinces who are also drug lords who maintained private armies where assaulted in their respective homes killing every one with heavy machine gun fire and grenade launchers. Problem Terminated.

Having said all that it is worthy to note that Our Presidents idol and also a friend is President Putin.

Now our President's thrust is to become a self sustaining, highly industrialized country. He just announced the Philippines withdrawal of support to the European Union, United Nations and the World Bank.

This is a lot of great information, I never new anything about the history of Russia but now I guess I've got an idea.

gibbs post=361492 Wrote:This is a lot of great information, I never new anything about the history of Russia but now I guess I've got an idea.

good show Gibbs. we have one planet, and one people diversified into great variation driven by the needs of survival over a vast differentiated environmental terrain. we have to get to know ourselves all over,understand the god/nature that gave rise to us.

we have an idea now of our universal address, in our current constellation of Pisces, the third planet in a daisy chain of 8 or so other planets orbiting our sun..about to precess into the constellation Aquarius

we have to know ourselves, our history...and in the process correct a whole lot of lies we have been told.

one lie we have been told is 'Nothing'

what is nothing? nothing does not exist save as a descriptive that helps to delineate reality. nothing does not exist! there is always something...always so if there is always something then what is this concept of beginning and end then?

if there is nothing, always something, then there is only existence..there is and can be no beginning and end to things or existence. how does existence exist then?

that is the question. and off we went in answer to that question, having to fight ourselves in the process as we actively try to stop ourselves from learning..from finding truth....

Russian is a very powerful human experience, one of the most powerful of all, enigmatic, brilliant yet at times inexplicable and seemingly very stupid. Black people, the biological and cultural foundation of humanity is also like that..brilliant yet at times inexplicable....

nature islike that too..gave rise to humanity..with emotion, feeling, can thing and so can moralize, develop ethics, principles etc,,,organizes human society on those principles..yet humanity is soft, malleable, absorbs everything..eats everything and therefore if we can eat to replenish us we are made of everything and everything is us..so everything in nature is the same thing just made up of different consistences so where cellulose can be hard it can also be soft and digestible

so if nature is like that then nature is god..and god is everything.

and nature moves like that..in a tremendous flow. incredible, powerful beyond imagination recycling everything. we call massive natural evens cataclysmic, lots of people dead..UNFORTUNATELY. yet what actually happens?

after the terrific storm and the massive rainfall, the floods and the drownings the sun shines and with the water nature flourishes. nature works like that then with no concern for its parts , its ultimate movement keeps going, evolving. what are humans to do then..who are we..how are we to live in these conditions..what are we here for

to me the answer is obvious...to humanize nature, as part of god to extend god. we are to tame nature ultimately not for capitalist production and the hoarding of wealth by a few, a process that poisons nature and satisfies the lesser fake gods we ave created who chose this or that human child as his favorite and set him up to go out and conquer the world and take all the wealth and hide it up

nature makes us pay for that with the extraordinary massive pain we cause ourselves..endless pain, endless genocide, disease, war..lies, lies, lies, lies.....

we must humanize nature in the ways we have seen disciplined by natures laws....we must learn the laws and on and within the laws see how we can create socially to make life safe period. and in the process we may ourselves become so powerful we become god-like in nature

our future may be god like..or it may be tragic...extinction. it is the risk of existence that deh..the greatest most glorious potential married up to the most dark danger and potential, disaster really. only nature does not see it as disaster for no matter what happens with nature nature is nature, will always exist and will always make something out of itself, out of what happens whether we are here or not

and that nature once it evolves a form, any form, all forms retains the knowledge and can evolve that form again when it is possible.

so if we humans 'tragically' disappear then we can appear at some point again in the universe.

and remember...tragic is our word, a human word, a word describing a human subjectivity,potential, eventuality... a product of our relative experience in nature..but that is irrelevant in natures general movement. it is like having evolved we have an opportunity and must realize that opportunity fully to be able to take advantage of it properly, to survive and go on indefinitely