Vladimir Putin began his rule in December 1999 by unveiling a memorial plaque to Yuri Andropov, who as Soviet ambassador to Budapest oversaw the invasion of Hungary in 1956, and who as chairman of the KGB, established the Fifth Directorate, which was tasked with suppressing dissent and expanded the practice of “punitive psychiatry” whereby dissidents were committed to mental asylums….Putin described the peaceful dissolution of the USSR as “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.” The retuned symbols of Soviet rule were quickly followed by Soviet-like methods of keeping a grip on society, from state control of television to the elimination of electoral competition….
Another reminder of this came with the recent decision of the Zamoskvoretsky district court prohibiting a referendum on the removal of the statue of Vladimir Lenin from Kaluzhskaya Square in downtown Moscow….The rehabilitation and preservation of Soviet symbols is a deliberate policy choice of Putin’s regime. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/02/26/putins-russia-is-becoming-more-soviet-by-the-day/?utm_term=.40b91e5f3cb6
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12-7-2018 Russia has signed billions of dollars worth of investment deals in Venezuela, the South American country's President Nicolas Maduro announced on Thursday after a three-day visit to Moscow….In a Twitter post on Thursday, Maduro announced that Russia had signed investment deals worth more than $6 billion dollars in Venezuela’s oil and gold sectors.
The Venezuelan (Marxist) President also said that a deal had been signed for Russian exports of wheat to the South American country. https://themoscowtimes.com/news/russia-signs-6-billion-investment-deals-with-venezuela-maduro-says-63743
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RISE ANYWAY, MOTHER RUSSIA.
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