Interesting engagement with recent prison letter.

https://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article67674

""It is a typically liberal and ’anti-communist’ line of thought that now, with Putin’s dictatorship, there is a sort of revival of Stalinism, Soviet authoritarianism and so on. Navalny, on the other hand, sketches a different genealogy. He accuses Yeltsin and the old post-Soviet elites of having missed the historic opportunity to give Russian society a democratic foundation.."

#Navalny #Yeltsin #Putin #Russia

L'inganno dell' allargamento #NATO

di Kit Klarenberg - Al Mayadeen

altrenotizie.org

https://www.altrenotizie.org/primo-piano/10062-l-inganno-dell-allargamento-nato.html

#clinton
#yeltsin
#ucraina
#russia
#ukraine

@xenophora

even relatively well informed lefty people dont even kniw about all that #Yeltsin shit -- they literally shelled parliament as #Clinton cheered -- #Putin himself has obscured this as well: that HE IS the benefactor of a CIA backed "color revolution" is one of histories great ironies.

@OlyaOliker @togoepfert "if Moscow, which has long been vocal about Ukrainian NATO membership being a red line, views admission itself as an act of war." NATO was founded to combat #moscow . What is the reason of being still alive since 1991? Was there any reason for #Gorbachev or #Yeltsin or even #Putin in the early 2000ths to *trust* NATO not to see Russia still as a potential enemy? Might this be one of the reasons that we failed to ensure peace in europe?

Bill Clinton: "I knew that #Putin did not support the agreement #Yeltsin made never to interfere with 🇺🇦's territorial boundaries...They were afraid to give [nukes] up because they thought that's the only thing that protected them from an expansionist 🇷🇺." https://t.co/dIBov7y0FG

@SueInRockville @georgetakei it is the responsibility of Russian people to protest the Kremlin like in the late ‘90’s s under Yeltsin, he sent in untrained Support Troops to Chechnya and they got slaughtered. Mothers of dead #Russian soldiers protested (they are powerful voice in Russia) and #yeltsin had to change the laws. Of course, #Putin does what he wants. Putin is “using up” the ethnic minorities first and sending them as canon fodder ..

@KK0000000000 something all #prigozhin followers forgets, #USSR ain't the same as #Russia and the peoples of the Soviet Union decided to split up into multiple nations, just Russia who can't accept that nor that #Yeltsin split USSR. Just look at #Ichkeria #Tatarstan #Georgia #Moldova #Ukraine
The right of secede was just on the paper, #stalin never lost control of #Ukraine or #Belarus at the same time #Karelia wasn't even allowed to have referendum which the Soviet had agreed on in the 1920s.

Former Russian Prez #Yeltsin Warned Bush Sr. about Nazi Problem in Ukraine in 1992: declassified transcript. He pointed out a worrying number of influential Extremist Nationalists in Kiev Parl.
There are 11 million ethnic Russians in Ukraine. They live E of Russian border. They are also majority in Crimea. They could vote for joining Russia. So in connection with this fact, I don't think, Ukraine will make some sharp turns. Off record: our main destabilizing factor is Ukraine- Yeltsin (Agent?)

The northwest province of #Moldova, #Transdniester is full of #Russians (the Russians always move more Russians in to conquered territories to dilute the local people). Right after Moldova declared independence, the Russians announced that Transdniester was a "sovereign country" and it suddenly "asked for help from Mother Russia", so #Yeltsin sent Russian forces to occupy it... they never left. EXACT same playbook the Russians always use. #ukraine #russianinvasion

#Russia Life is hazardous living in a kakistocracy #Yeltsin and #Putin wrote that book https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/how-the-mysterious-deaths-of-23-elite-russians-sparked-a-global-murder-mystery-20221230-p5c9gb.html?utm_content=TOP_STORIES&list_name=E2446F7A-1897-44FC-8EB8-B365900170E3&promote_channel=edmail&utm_campaign=am-smh-weekend&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=2023-01-03&mbnr=MjMwNjcwNjk&instance=2023-01-03-07-33-AEDT&jobid=29476467wrote the book on that one

There were only 86 out of the 213 House Republicans in the Chamber to hear the President of Ukraine speak yesterday.
Whether you agree with the aid package or not, the man flew here from front lines of a country that has been brutalized by an evil invader, for this. One of the things the MAGA Republicans lack the most is basic human decency and civility.
#Yeltsin #Ukraine #Politics

A huge cake in the shape of a larger-than-life Lenin laid out in the mausoleum is cut at a party in early post-Soviet Russia. Children in 'western' clothes and others are served by waiters in bow ties.

#Capitalism in #Russia
#postsoviet #soviet
#Yeltsin #Putin #Lenin
#symbolic #cannibalism

Surovikin , #Ruschist current supreme commander in #Ukraine, commanded the 1991 KGB Duma coup siege troops.

Within a day of that fiasco and their retreat in the face of 100,000 demonstrators called out by #Yeltsin (while Gorbachev was imprisoned in his villa in #Crimea), Ukraine declared independence.

https://twitter.com/decodingtrolls/status/1498946743098130432?s=46&t=SQDh6sI-232eW0aW-ALeAw

'When the zeal for #ShockTherapy in #Russia was at its peak, its cheerleaders were.. convinced that.. destruction of every.. institution would create the conditions for a national rebirth—the dream of the #BlankSlate that would recur in #Baghdad.. no matter how baldly #Yeltsin defied.. democracy, his rule was still characterized in the West as part of “a transition to democracy,”.. that would change only when #Putin began cracking down on the illegal activities of several of the oligarchs. '