Love Russia but hate the Kremlin?

Question

I’ve been in love with traditional Russian culture since I was 10. Classical music, history, and literature, and the giants of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Pasternak, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Pushkin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Ilizarov, Solzhenitsyn, and many others. However, I cannot get it in my mind how anyone can consider Russia a democracy. Over the years I’ve come to hate the Russian government, for many reasons. One, the repeated killings of Kremlin critics. How can any of you ignore the brutal murders of Anna Politkovskaya, Aleksander Litvinenko, Magomed Yevloyev? The ink on Yevloyev’s death certificate hasn’t even dried and already the Kremlin has conveniently moved past it! The infuriating invasion of Georgia, so reminiscent of the blatant terrorism committed by the Soviet Union all over the Eastern bloc as recently as the late 1980s. The Comintern and its instigation of bloody national socialist revolutions in all the former colonies of the west and the sadistic dictatorial regimes that resulted that survive to this day—from Burma to Libya to Syria to Sudan to Belarus to North Korea (it goes on and on)—the military and economic aid it continues to give the world’s most oppressive governments, like Iran—I’m no American lackey, I come from one of those countries and I wish the Soviets had never had anything to do with it. How can anyone consider the Kremlin, far from being democratic, even civilized?

Answer 1

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hi,
i think , all the countries have the same political problems...

http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-art…

http://www.aclu.org/privacy/35968prs2008…
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/…

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/washin…

How can anyone consider the WhiteHouse,far from being democratic, even civilized,too.

Answer 2

yeah R
i copletely agree with you, but you know u cant change their menthality, thats how they were brought up.. you have mentioned many people, but do you remember Listiev, he was a journalist either and talked everything he thought about, he was shot near his house..Russian TVs broadcast what Kreml wants and they dont even have oppositional TV channels, their language is the language of aggression and war and they teach the west whats democracy? rediculous,,
Russia has revealed its real face not only in front of the governments but in front of the people from all over the world

Answer 3

you're not the only one. Millions people in the world share your opinion. All that you've said is obvious. You can love a girl but hate her parents. It's the same. Of course, Russian people may have a choice to choose their government. But as History shows, Russia never even had a GOOD candidate for a power. All of them were bad and some of them were just terrible (e.g. Ivan the terrible, Peter the "great", Stalin, Yeltsin). What can be done NOW? nothing. It COULD HAVE been done in 17th centure when Russian STATE was almost "occupied" by Poles and two guys called Minin and Pozharsky equipped the Second Volunteer Army. If they wouldn't have done it, may be Russia had a more democratic policy and was ruled by the Polish

Answer 4

Russian have much rights then people of UK or of the USA,yes,they have no much power,but its just 20 years gone after soviet collapse,show me real democracy in ex soviets...Middle Asia? Belorussia,Nazist eSStonia with Latvia? National-nazist Ukraine with Yushenko whom hates 92%? Nazist Georgia with Georgia for georgians? Azerbaijan? Even in Armenia democracy is far from reality,about Moldova with communists in power i even dont say...

Answer 5

If you embrace Western "democracy", liberalism and whatever other rubbish those people are producing just move to Sweden or USA or somewhere and remain silent. No one truly care whether or not you agree with current Russian government, go tell it to a mountain. And to Alex: "Ivan The Terrible" is also known in Russia as Ivan The Amazing or Ivan The Great. Josef Stalin may not have been a perfect man but are you or I? One thing I say about Stalin. When he came to power, he inherited an impoverished peasant land, ravaged by war and revolution... When he died, he left an empire, an industrialized global super power and one of the most powerful entities on earth. When he died, people all over USSR cried, there was a shroud of solemn bleakness felt all over Soviet Union.

Answer 6

to author R: you sound hypocritical comedian! At tender age of 10 best you could know was brilliant Russian cusses! A normal adult hardly knows half of the names you mention in your rant!
To all lovers of Georgian democracy, and leluu in particular; Go to Gori, Georgia; see a unique museum of widely known dictator Stalin and his huge monument! I’ve seen it there two weeks ago safe and sound! Enough of Georgians like Stalin, Beria, Gamsakhurdija, Wily Fox, and puny Saakashvilli! Is there a single sane Georgian there?
Gmadlobt!

Answer 7

When I see people writing this :

"How can any of you ignore the brutal murders of Anna Politkovskaya, Aleksander Litvinenko, Magomed Yevloyev? The ink on Yevloyev’s death certificate hasn’t even dried and already the Kremlin has conveniently moved past it! The infuriating invasion of Georgia"

I think : 1° that your question is a speech requiring no answer - you're just shouting primitive things that we could ask you where you found them - doing this you're at the lowest level of propaganda - and this is not the right place for this -

2 ° Politkovskaia : Nobody knows who killed her - there are presomptions, hypothesis - this eg could be the deed of russian para-military agents not controlled by the Kremlin but YOU know and even the murderer would be found - imagine somebody from the west - and you would still refuse the truth -

Litvinienko - nobody knows but YOU know and you write it
not expensive - does not mean any ounce of responsibility in what you say - but if there is a freedom of speech - there's also a must to shut up when ignoring facts - Until today there are as many presumptions
of guiltiness on the UK special services as on russian side - nobody knows - but YOU know

Yevloyev ??? - Who is that - Tchetchen ? If cute people such as you whine on chechen terrorists - the "good" terrorists - your terrorists - Talibans, why don't they whine on Beslan children -
what country was behind the chechen commando in Beslan - ? you don't know, of course - I'll not tell you, and this few people know - and many people ignore to know - your words KILL

Now for Georgia - Your propaganda denies to russians the right to defend indepedent small countries, and their right to say which country they want to protect them - IT CANNOT be Russia -no of course it cannot - because Russia basically bad can only do evil - of course....

Amen- don't forget your prayers