Evidence that Putin is a Soviet Dictator

[Smaland]

This video was posted at the YouTube channel Mark Felton Productions.

Many people born in the U.S. since 1991 might not know very much about the Soviet Union. Even if they briefly studied it in a high school history class, for them the USSR is now only an item of history.

What were the Soviets capable of doing? No one in the West knows exactly how many deaths for which Stalin is responsible; some might say 20 million, but Solzhenitsyn said that he killed 66 million people. Genocides by Communist leaders aren't a part of public discourse today, and so modern adults might think to themselves that this can't be true. But they haven't seen the Soviets in action, as reported by the news sources of the day.

There are very few advantages to being a senior citizen in the U.S., but one of them is that you have lived through at least part of the Cold War. Stalin died before my time, but I remember the invasion of what was Czechoslovakia in 1968 (this country was a Soviet satellite state back then). I also remember an event that took place on September 1, 1983. A Korean airliner made a navigation error, it strayed over Soviet airspace, and it was attacked with missiles by a Soviet fighter. If the mainstream theory of the result is correct, Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down over the Sea of Japan, and all 269 people aboard the plane were killed.

• Putin has never expressed any regret for his career in the KGB.
• Putin has expressed the opinion that the fall of the Soviet Union was a catastrophe.

[Victor]

Soviet? There's no Soviet Union, no Communist ideology, there's Capitalism, no repressions against Christians, no traits of any kind of similar ideology. You better go back to your bunker in the backyard, old man, so you can wait for Russian invasion of Alaska there.

Most of active military men, intelligence service agents of any post Soviet (including Ukraine) and lots of Eastern European states are ex-KGB people, I mean it seems like for you it's gonna be normal if Putin was a CIA man

Putin's regret for the collapse of the USSR implies unfair borders, not fall of the Communist regime.

[Smaland]

Soviet? There's no Soviet Union, no Communist ideology, there's Capitalism, no repressions against Christians, no traits of any kind of similar ideology. You better go back to your bunker in the backyard, old man, so you can wait for Russian invasion of Alaska there.

Most of active military men, intelligence service agents of any post Soviet (including Ukraine) and lots of European states are ex-KGB people, I mean it seems like for you it's gonna be normal if Putin was a CIA man

More to come.

[Creoda]

This video was posted at the YouTube channel Mark Felton Productions.

Many people born in the U.S. since 1991 might not know very much about the Soviet Union. Even if they briefly studied it in a high school history class, for them the USSR is now only an item of history.

What were the Soviets capable of doing? No one in the West knows exactly how many deaths for which Stalin is responsible; some might say 20 million, but Solzhenitsyn said that he killed 66 million people. Genocides by Communist leaders aren't a part of public discourse today, and so modern adults might think to themselves that this can't be true. But they haven't seen the Soviets in action, as reported by the news sources of the day.

There are very few advantages to being a senior citizen in the U.S., but one of them is that you have lived through at least part of the Cold War. Stalin died before my time, but I remember the invasion of what was Czechoslovakia in 1968 (this country was a Soviet satellite state back then). I also remember an event that took place on September 1, 1983. A Korean airliner made a navigation error, it strayed over Soviet airspace, and it was attacked with missiles by a Soviet fighter. If the mainstream theory of the result is correct, Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down over the Sea of Japan, and all 269 people aboard the plane were killed.

One doesn't need to remember the Soviet Union, under 10 years ago Russian separatists in Ukraine murdered 298 civilians on MH17 with a surface-to-air missile transported from Russia that day, for which no guilt has ever been acknowledged.

[Victor]

One doesn't need to remember the Soviet Union, under 10 years ago Russian separatists in Ukraine murdered 298 civilians on MH17 with a surface-to-air missile transported from Russia that day, for which no guilt has ever been acknowledged.

It has never been proved. Also there's one clear part of Ukrainian crime which needs no investigation at all. They directed and allowed the airplane through the warzone.

[Smaland]

"Soviet imagery and symbolism has seen a resurgence since Russia launched its 'special military operation' against Ukraine on Feb. 24 (2022)."


" Inductees made an oath of 'loyalty to the cause of Lenin and the Communist Party in the service of the Fatherland and the people.' "

Both of these photos and their captions were posted within the article linked to below, and both of them were credited to Sophia Sandurskaya of the Moskva News Agency. The induction ceremony took place in Moscow on Sunday, May 22 (2022).

Thousands of schoolchildren gathered on Red Square wearing red hats and neckerchiefs Sunday as Russia's Communist Party inducted new members of the Pioneers, the party's youth organization during the (days of the) U.S.S.R.

During the event marking the youth organization's 100th anniversary, roughly 5,000 children aged 9 to 14 were given the title 'All-Russian Pioneers.'

While the Young Pioneers was dissolved when the Soviet Union collapsed, some lawmakers are currently pushing for the creation of a similar movement to instill patriotic values in Russians from an early age.
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Full story in The Moscow Times

[gixajo]

He is nostalgic for the power of the Soviet Union and without a doubt in a great measure his way of thinking and acting is based on that time, but I agree with Victor that he does not intend to emulate a communist society.

[Victor]

He is nostalgic for the power of the Soviet Union and without a doubt in a great measure his way of thinking and acting is based on that time, but I agree with Victor that he does not intend to emulate a communist society.

From 2010s he almost totally gave up referring to the USSR and Soviet-nostalgic rhetoric as something positive, more pointing out the mistakes of this time and decisions which leaded to current problems. Not the last reason was that most of people who could be attracted by Soviet nostalgia are either 90+ years old or 2 meters under soil.

Also, his favourite philosopher is anticommunist Ivan Ilyin, who lived in Germany until 1938 (then moved to Switzerland until the end of life) Ilyin was a big admirder of Spanish and Portuguese fascism (despising German national-socialism, racism, at the same time).

[Smaland]

"Director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergei Naryshkin delivers a speech during a ceremony unveiling the monument to founder of the Soviet secret police Felix Dzerzhinsky at the service's headquarters in Moscow, Russia, September 11, 2023. [Photo credit:] Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation/Handout via REUTERS"

MOSCOW, Sept 11 (Reuters) - A bronze statue of "Iron Felix" Dzerzhinsky, the ruthless founder of the Soviet secret police and architect of the Red Terror which followed the 1917 revolution, was unveiled on Monday at the headquarters of Russia's foreign spy service.
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After the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, his statue was toppled to cheers in Poland and as the Soviet Union itself crumbled in 1991 a monument to Dzerzhinsky outside the KGB headquarters on Lubyanka Square in Moscow was toppled amid rejoicing by many.

But now Felix is back among Russia's spies.
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Full story at Reuters

[Smaland]

"A 1950s Soviet poster." The image is credited to "mvdmedia.ru". The image, its caption, and the image credit were all posted within the article linked to below.

Following Russia’s bombing of a drama theatre in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol in March (2022), St. Petersburg-based artist Alexandra Skochilenko swapped supermarket price tags with stickers containing information about the attack that reportedly killed hundreds of civilians.

A fellow store customer reported her act of resistance to the police.

'I was extremely outraged by the slander I read because I worry a lot about Russian soldiers in Ukraine,' the 72-year-old informant claimed in testimony published by local media.

Soon after, Skochilenko, 31, was arrested for spreading 'false information' about the Russian Army — a crime under new legislation that is being used to clamp down on information deviating from the Kremlin’s narrative of the war in Ukraine.

Skochilenko is one of dozens of Russians who have been criminally charged for anti-war actions or statements since the invasion began on Feb. 24 (2022).

Many have been reported to police by family, neighbors and passersby in a trend analysts say harks back to Soviet denunciations — and is being actively encouraged by Russian authorities.
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Full story in The Moscow Times