The friends of Putin
By Julieta Muñoz Portal
07/10/2012
The past 3th of October, the newspaper Proceso published a special report
entitled “The friends of Putin"; The
article talks about how to be friends with Vladimir Putin in Leningrad equals
to hitting the jackpot in the lottery, it Talks about several cases in which
childhood friends of the Russian president have now become the richest men in
the world, some of them even making the ranking of Forbes magazine richest men
on the planet.
How far is the concept of freedom within the
Putin administration, to the one that a fascist government has? In my opinion is
not that far away, the Putin administration has been known for his questionable
methods and has certainly been not afraid to show how they rule with a fist of
steel, crushing their opponents and whoever gets on the way of the interest of
the state.
Fascist reject any form of individual liberty,
the only concept of Freedom known to them is the unquestioning submission to
the will of the leader and the absorption of the individual into the national
community, in other words the individual becomes one within the state, he
cannot question the state interest because by definition those are the interest
of the whole country. When it comes to fascist we can certainly apply the
well-known phrase “you’re either with us, or against us” or as said by Darth
Vader to Obi-Wan Kenobi In the climax of
the film Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith,, "If you're not with
me, then you're my enemy." And ever since in power it seems that president
Putin takes this very literally.
Russian media is controlled by the state as
well as television, and those who decide to expose the flaws and as you can say
"dirty business" of the president receive the full weight of justice,
but justice is not given by the state but by a series of underground networks
that are linked directly with President Putin and his close social circle. A
perfect example would be the famous case of journalist Anna Politkovskaya,
author of books like Putin's Russia or Chechnya Hell, who had reported receiving
death threats because of her anti Putin work. Finally on October 7, 2006 she
was killed in the elevator of the building where she had his home in Moscow, also
linked is the case of Alexander Litvinenko
a former Russian spy poisoned, according to Western media allegedly for
criticizing Putin government, when he was on the process of investigate the murder of Politkovskaya began
receiving death threats. Putin's government has denied any connection with the
death of such persons, stating that it could sue those who slander the Russian
government on the subject.
From what it looks like is that when working
in the high ranks of the Russian government or in the “free” media, whether you
are %100 supportive of the Putin agenda or you are against them (and most
likely close to disappear or be murdered under mysterious circumstances).
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