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Post by Vinny on Mar 29, 2024 9:08:39 GMT
Winter is Coming by Garry Kasparov.
Killer in the Kremlin by John Sweeney.
Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya (murdered).
Red Notice by Bill Browder.
Freezing Order by Bill Browder.
Blowing up Russia by Alexander Litvinenko (murdered) and Yuri Feltshinsky.
They will blow your mind.
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Post by piglet on Mar 29, 2024 11:50:01 GMT
Id like to add Scorn with added vitriol by Matthew Parris, its all about Putin, its worth buying, there are oaths in there that are totally brilliant, as well as truth, in a scornful, abusive way. Let me give you a taste....cursed be your mothers the last two letters are u and an s. i sh it on your fathewrs nose. Those are primitive curses, more elaboate political insults are a joy.
Like Eric Heifer commenting on a conservative government,..." they are like kippers, two faced with no guts. Or like, someone commenting on a politician hes like woody allen without the jokes.
Dennis Healy on Thatcher, " shes like Roda the rhino."
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Mar 29, 2024 19:03:21 GMT
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Post by Vinny on Mar 29, 2024 20:06:08 GMT
YouTube is not a book, and was that guy persecuted by Putin or murdered? Books, ones critical of the dictatorship.
Not dictatorship propaganda I hope.
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Mar 29, 2024 21:45:37 GMT
YouTube is not a book, and was that guy persecuted by Putin or murdered? Books, ones critical of the dictatorship. Not dictatorship propaganda I hope. He has written 7 of them. I just think he has a far more intelligent understanding of Russia than all these bullshitters like Browder, who is definitely an intelligence agent. You see he is an academic so you get a better perspective. It's interesting what he says about the Russian identity. Why don't you get his latest book, called From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin.
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Post by Vinny on Mar 29, 2024 23:25:34 GMT
Is he a critic of Putin? Was he persecuted by the dictatorship? Has Putin tried to have him killed? If not, he's a bullshitter.
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Mar 30, 2024 0:35:58 GMT
Is he a critic of Putin? Was he persecuted by the dictatorship? Has Putin tried to have him killed? If not, he's a bullshitter. It's an academic book. Routledge is a top academic publisher and British by the way. It's aimed at post graduate students of history. You would do yourself some good to read an academic history book because it would give you a lot deeper understanding that bloody GB News and other trash that abounds us denies us. Anyway, I like him for the very reason that he aims to be accurate. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2024 7:22:10 GMT
Is he a critic of Putin? Was he persecuted by the dictatorship? Has Putin tried to have him killed? If not, he's a bullshitter. It's an academic book. Routledge is a top academic publisher and British by the way. It's aimed at post graduate students of history. You would do yourself some good to read an academic history book because it would give you a lot deeper understanding that bloody GB News and other trash that abounds us denies us. Anyway, I like him for the very reason that he aims to be accurate. If you're comparing academic work to a news site then it can't be that good.
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Post by Vinny on Mar 30, 2024 9:32:08 GMT
Exactly, I've mentioned books by journalists.
Anna Politkovskaya was one of the best.
She was so good, it was a source of great embarrassment for Putin, so he had her shot dead on the 7th October 2006. His birthday.
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Post by Vinny on Mar 30, 2024 9:53:18 GMT
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Mar 30, 2024 11:25:43 GMT
It's an academic book. Routledge is a top academic publisher and British by the way. It's aimed at post graduate students of history. You would do yourself some good to read an academic history book because it would give you a lot deeper understanding that bloody GB News and other trash that abounds us denies us. Anyway, I like him for the very reason that he aims to be accurate. If you're comparing academic work to a news site then it can't be that good.
That's illogical. I'm comparing him to the place where most people get their news from. There is a world of difference. I know where people get their news from because their messages carry signature errors, so you can trace the error back to the source and know the origin. |
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Post by Vinny on Mar 30, 2024 11:53:55 GMT
He does not live in Russia. Has there been an attempt on his life by Putin's dictatorship? Is his work banned in Russia? If it isn't then it's not worth reading. Does he criticise the mafia regime of Putin at all? All of these criticised Putin. archive.org/details/putinsrussialife00poliPutin's Russia by murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya. The book is banned in Russia. archive.org/details/B-001-000-156Blowing Up Russia. The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror. Alexander Litvinenko & Yuri Felshtinsky. Litvinenko was poisoned with Polonium 210 and the book was banned in Russia. archive.org/details/rednoticetruesto0000brow_i3q9Red Notice by Bill Browder. Book is banned in Russia, the regime has an arrest warrant out for Bill Browder, Interpol will not enforce the warrant. archive.org/details/winteriscomingwh0000kasp_r8m4Winter is Coming by Garry Kasparov (former world chess champion, now Russian dissident in exile). Again, book banned in Russia, and Putin's fascist regime has listed the former world chess champion as an "extremist" enemy of the state. |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Mar 30, 2024 12:42:56 GMT
He does not live in Russia. Has there been an attempt on his life by Putin's dictatorship? Is his work banned in Russia? If it isn't then it's not worth reading. Does he criticise the mafia regime of Putin at all? All of these criticised Putin. archive.org/details/putinsrussialife00poliPutin's Russia by murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya. The book is banned in Russia. archive.org/details/B-001-000-156Blowing Up Russia. The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror. Alexander Litvinenko & Yuri Felshtinsky. Litvinenko was poisoned with Polonium 210 and the book was banned in Russia. archive.org/details/rednoticetruesto0000brow_i3q9Red Notice by Bill Browder. Book is banned in Russia, the regime has an arrest warrant out for Bill Browder, Interpol will not enforce the warrant. archive.org/details/winteriscomingwh0000kasp_r8m4Winter is Coming by Garry Kasparov (former world chess champion, now Russian dissident in exile). Again, book banned in Russia, and Putin's fascist regime has listed the former world chess champion as an "extremist" enemy of the state. Those who have fought the Putin government are biased. He's not taking sides, but explains it in a professional academic approach of being disinterested. Like a judge in a court would be no good if he were friends with either the prosecution or the defence. It is an art you have yet to learn.
He neither praises President Putin nor condemns him. Politics has no place in the study of history. In Britain today our people learn most of the stuff they know via interested parties having a debate on the box. Each one is effectively lying by being selective with the truth. I on the other hand take his approach. It is the approach of being honest.
If you want to know his view on President Putin, he admits the process was not particularly democratic, but his thesis is that Russian culture was moving in the direction of President Putin's thinking anyway and what President Putin did, which was his genius, was he united all the various political factions in Russia, which included the oligarchs, the old school communists, the modernisers and so on. Each faction got a bit of what they wanted so the result was the fighting stopped. When the fighting stops it spurs economic growth, so each portion of the pie each faction settled for became more valuable and this is why he is so popular, as in he was the peacemaker.
He goes on to say, even if President Putin were never born, the likelihood was that someone similar would get voted in with a similar agenda. It's a bit like saying even if Farage were never born, Brexit would have happened anyway. The bottom line is basically the Russian people want their Russian empire back. Ukraine was at one time a part of Russia. Imagine the same in the UK where at some point the Brits start to think, fuck this devolution crap, we want Britain back as Britain so we are going to liquidate all the assemblies and run the whole thing from Westminster. You could imagine such a policy would create friction. Even the Northern Ireland biz is interfered with via the US dictating to us. So put your head in that place and you will see how the Russians are. They don't want to be broken up and eventually fed to the EU as vassal states. Neither did we.
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Post by Vinny on Mar 30, 2024 14:36:00 GMT
If you don't take sides with the victims, whether you realise it or not, you have sided with the oppressor. Putin is not a President as Russians haven't had free and fair elections in decades.
Putin is a dictator.
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Mar 30, 2024 15:48:46 GMT
If you don't take sides with the victims, whether you realise it or not, you have sided with the oppressor. Putin is not a President as Russians haven't had free and fair elections in decades. Putin is a dictator. He admits the political process was not very democratic, but you also have to consider what Russia was like when President Putin took control and how it is now. He did a bit of a Thatcher trick and turned it around when it was facing disaster.
As the man was saying, Russians have gone though a number of distinct political phases, from the czars all the way to the current time, and each phase has been culturally different. For example during the soviet era they were very ideological, but as the soviet system failed they lost faith in ideology, so today the Russian view is kind of an expression of irony. They make jokes about the way things work in Russia, but things still get done. It's a funny kind of culture and I reckon it takes a bit of getting used to. Russians will treat you well as long as you don't take the piss. They are very straightforward and pretty smart. What we English need to practice at is a bit of honesty. Deal with Russians honestly and you will find they like you a whole load more than some sneaky bastard who is trying to get one over.
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