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Russia – The Mother Of All Pathologies
While the Soviet union is formally long gone, very little has since then changed in
Russia for the better. Communism in its old, ideologically senile form might not be there, but the pathology remains. Here are some facts:
- In 2007 average life expectancy in
Russia is as follows:
73 years - females
59 years - for males !!!
Which modern and civilized country throughout the world has 59 years male life expectancy?
There is hardly anybody (knowing something about
Russia), who doesn’t know the reasons for this – Russian men simply drown themselves in alcohol, sometimes not even ethanol but a home-made lethal mixture. Out of desperation.
In the Russian town of Dzerzhinsk, (a centre of Soviet chemical warfare production) the life expectancy is 47 (women) and 42 (men). Mainly because of niceties, such as all sorts of cancer.
It seems like the current Russian regime couldn't care less about this.
- The Russian population shrinks downs by about 1 mln. each year although there is tremendous immigration from former Soviet republics, where the situation is even more desperate.
2. Many young Russian women are desperate in their wish to find somebody and get married from abroad, just to get away from the madhouse.
3. The AIDS situation in
Russia is as bad as in
Africa.
According to this Reuters source:
http://www.rense.com/general20/scarier.htm
“AIDS is soon to ravage
Russia with consequences that may be even more catastrophic than in Africa, yet the public is barely even aware the epidemic has arrived,
Russia's top AIDS official said.”
Unlike
Africa however, the Russian political elite pretends their country to be a major world player, they are proud to be a G-8 member, their diminished status is seen just as a temporary event, an aberration.
At the same time
Russia has vast resources. It is the biggest producer of natural gas and second in oil.
Russia has other vast resources, such as metals, diamonds, gold. All those, however, are totally controlled by the regime in order to pursue their malignant agenda of reviving totalitarian, or at best, authoritarian
Russia as a major world player.
5. Desperate to counter
US influence throughout the world,
Russia supports and arms many despotic, rogue regimes, including:
China,
Iran,
The soaked in blood regime of Saddam Hussein in
Iraq in the past.
The soaked in blood regime of Slobodan Milosevic in former Yugoslavie and later
Serbia in the past.
Milosevic had been a
Moscow puppet all along. The Russians threatened to veto NATO military action in Kosovo in 1999. The US/NATO forces had to launch their operation to protect Kosovo from ethnic cleansing without UN approval as a result of this.
Russia is in close cooperation also with:
North Korea,
Syria,
Belarus
The Russian regime is/was in close military and intelligence cooperation with all these despotic regimes. For example they provided valuable intelligence to the Saddam regime up to his removal in 2003.
As a permanent, veto-holding member of the UN Security Council, Russia tried to counter any serious pressure, exerted by the West in its attempts to uphold the UN principles and democratize the above mentioned countries (minus China which is a UNSC permanent member itself and can veto anything they don’t like)
The Russian state machine, the amalgam of the Russian secret services and the Russian mafia (created, controlled and operated by the Russian secret services), got involved in numerous murders of non-conformist journalists, activists, and foreign citizens, among others after 1991. (Link)
The old mechanisms of repression, utilized by the Soviet meat-grinder were replaced with a system of “contract” killings, controlling and looting the country of its resources and overwhelming and ultra-corrupt state bureaucracy and judicial system. The semi-free (at best) Russian media was again taken back under a very tight, almost official control, as in the past.
The thuggish, repressive component of the Soviet KGB and the judiciary was replaced by the Russian mafia, which had been created and controlled by the Soviet state machine.
Essential for this transformation was the release from jail of hundreds of thousands of criminals, most of which were informants of the KGB even prior to joining the Russian mafia. AS a rule, Soviet jails and concentration camps had a deputy commander who was a KGB officer, running a vast agents' network inside the convicts.
Freed (amnestied) in the 80s under Gorbachev, these criminals, together with their secret services runners made up what is now known as the Russian mafia.
Their current president, Putin, was previously deputy mayor of
St. Petersburg, responsible for the exports of resources (metals, oil, etc.), i.e., an essential element of the flight capital operations. Flight capital during the 90s was one of the highest priorities of the Soviet/later Russian regime. According to data presented at US Congress hearings in 1999 between $300 and $500 billion were extracted from
Russia by the Russian hydra (mafia+secret services)
Without caring about financing the ongoing and thriving Russian pathology, some corporations, such as the BP and Shell invested billions in modernizing the Russian oil and gas crumbling infrastructure. Before
Russia showed any genuine signs of breaking with the past.
Duped by the prospective of profiting from the vast Russian resources, such companies pumped into the malignant Russian state machine billions of litres of fresh blood, reviving its oil and gas industry, thus restoring its potential to be again a major troublemaker.
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