It seems like Washington Times editors run out of sane persons to write op-ed on Russian politics. I cannot think of any rational reasons for publishing “Standing up to Russia” by Tsotne Bakuria. Below are some most interesting passages from his article:
They (Russian leaders) dream of restoring the Soviet Union to all its crumbling, dysfunctional glory. They dream of seeing the United States under a red flag (seriously). Communism is a latent virus in Eastern Europe, but forces are bent on seeing it become active again.
I grew up under communism and its harsh, vicelike grip on my country. Drinking Coca-Cola was prohibited.
KGB forced us to drink Pepsi.
Watching Hollywood movies might land you 12 years in a Siberian gulag.
On the other hand selling videos with Swedish hard porn could get you maximum 5 years in an ordinary prison.
Reading Alexander Solzhenitsyn? You might as well drink arsenic the next morning and get it over with.
I personally run out of arsenic when I was reading Solzhenitsyn with my friends. That’s why I’m still alive.
A schoolmate of mine showed up one day in a pair of new Nike sneakers. For the next three weeks, he was mysteriously absent from school. The local police took him in for days of questioning.
Soviets were fighting competitors of Adidas (that was produced in Leningrad), you know.
Torturing journalists. Killing opposition voices. I remember listening to the Soviet-scrambled Voice of America in a musty, dank basement, afraid we would go to jail. Cars stopping in the night; KGB officers in black leather coats branding Kalashnikovs, taking innocent people away in the dark.
Those KGB officers also wore chains, high heel boots, runes tattooed on their foreheads. They also spoke with heavy American accent. Almost forgot – watching those KGB officers might land you 12 years in a Siberian gulag.
Do gambling-crazed, oil-rich, nightclub hopping Russian citizens really yearn for their ignoble past?
Tsotne Bakuria is a former member of the Georgian Parliament and visiting scholar at George Washington University. George Washington University is definitely in a very poor state. How can anyone explain why they recruit scholars at mental asylums?
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Konstantin, this is such a funny break-down of the article, such an article should not be taken seriously :)The guy is really retarded, I can not put it in anther words; though the really retarded ones are those who gave him the title "visiting scholar ". It's like watching one of those clod war movies Hollywood used to produce every now and then . Now it seems to be a trend and a fashion to be Anti-Russian and to show as much “russphobia” in your writings as you can - it makes one look smart and "belongs to the modern world"!
This is not the 1st time we read something like this in Washington Post, almost weekly they have such "friendly" article about Russia. And the sad thing is that they are written by such ignorant people and such phobia-motivated ones that sometimes I feel time has flied back 20 years or something and Regan will be on TV in a couple of hours!
Nice blog, keep the great work!
“Reading Alexander Solzhenitsyn? You might as well drink arsenic the next morning and get it over with.
I personally run out of arsenic when I was reading Solzhenitsyn with my friends. That’s why I’m still alive.”
This is just awesome, I’m laughing loudly at this one!
Really love this blog
Those KGB officers also wore chains, high heel boots, runes tattooed on their foreheads. They also spoke with heavy American accent. Almost forgot – watching those KGB officers might land you 12 years in a Siberian gulag.
That's it! I doubt this georgian really wrote that article - it seems it's written by those who knows Russia only by low-minded halfpenny Hollywood movies.
No doubt: this IS the funniest comment I've read recently. Zhuganov and Luzhkov in charge of Russian policy? Is this just a Georgian conman or is he serious? And do these Yanks really swallow this crap? Woud explain a lot..
Coen van Zwol
Hi Konstantin, did you google the writer of this funny article? You should. He used to be from the once pro-Russian (?r more pro-smuggle) Revival Party of Adjaria. Guess he chose a new career.. Coen
Aha, here I find the Georgian ambassador warned the Washington Times already in september about the identity of this writer. Did'n help, obviously.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20050925-102112-6934r.htm
CoenvZ
And Z - this funny article is from the Washington TIMES, not the Washington POST. These are different animals altogether. The W.T. is the standard bearer of the neo-cons, the W.P. is a serious newspaper most of the time...Coen
What a KGB style comments by "Anonymous" and "Z" and Russia's another big thinker "Konstantine". bravo people just get in your mind the idea of your country's complex of inferiority. I wonder how those by Putin enslaved russians are getting so blind and rediculously stupid . I love the story published by Bakuria a year ago. by the way "genious" russian kgb advocate Mr.Z,A and K The Washington Times is one the of the most influential Newspaper in America.sounds like KGB propaganda did not tell you this. please get back in your who knows for how many times enslaved country and be quiet as long as the free media is having it's strong word.
Roland Stanes .Washington DC.
I'm just wodering why those Russian's always sound as if they were gays ? why those men are so weak and fool? Washington Times is The Amnericas Newspaper.as for as KGB Boris Pasternak was detained in 1960 for one reason only -reading loud out Alexander Solshenizin. well... kommunists do love being liars. what the hell is Coen?
Petra .Alexadria VA
Is there anybody who would listen to them seriously? no realy I just speachles how they could possibly being so naive claiming that Soviets were the best innocent angels on this planet. I just feel so sorry for you guys.
Greg .Arlington VA
I think I know who they are . Russia's worst and cheap agents who have got a mission to spread out their durty idea of killing everybody who dears to say the truth about their "the most free country". how about your zsar-putin brillllliant thinkers and blogers? actually all you need is somebody who would manipulate with your brain.this the way Mother-Russia works.you have to have a master .otherwise you people are lost forever.
Katie.Kiev.Ukraine
By the way the link that was posted bellow belongs to one of the Saakashvili's rat who tryis just to get his miserable salary to trow mud to anybody who dares to say the the truth about Saakashvili's regime loud out.
Gogla
Tbilisi.Georgia
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