Posted on 10/09/2022 12:41:55 PM PDT by tired&retired
This 2018 lecture appears very accurate retrospectively. The first 45 minutes is Pozner's lecture, followed by an equally good question and answer period.
It is one of the most objective presentations I have heard, especially about how the Clintons created Putin.
I'm seeking greater understanding and not taking political sides on this.
Take the time and listen to it. It's worth it.
I sat through one of this lying shill’s lectures when I was in college and he was spouting Communist Soviet propaganda. I can’t believe he doesn’t have the shame to shut his mouth and hide his face.
A ridiculous idea. Not worth the powder to blow it up.
Name is familiar. Is he Gorby’s translator.
Bkmk
Long time old school commie “news” personality. Shilled for the commies his whole life until the USSR collapsed. Then got a gig with Phil Donahue on cable and was never questioned about his support for Siberian prison camps and political detention.
I watched a chunk of it. It basically says — we are to blame for expanding NATO. Of course it’s always our fault, right?
Yale?
Feggedabowdit!
There is a slim chance that their STEM departments may have only small to moderate leaks in their intelligence, but the rest? Bwahahahahahaha.
Must really suck being the last official Russian communist left holding the bag.
Not going to listen. I am a long term Russian linguist for the DoD and State Department, lived over there and did a missionary (baptist) tour over there. Beslan created Putin and kept him in power all these years.
Putin was in charge but Beslan cemented him as the strong man who would protect the Russian people. And he did till this debacle in Ukraine.
I saw the name “Posner” and I wondered I that was the same SOB that made me want to spit on my television decades ago.
I try to avoid knee jerk reactions to names like that, because there was some other “Posner” I came across a few years back and I dismissed it as being the same guy, but it wasn’t.
Seems like this guy is. I wouldn’t be inclined to listen to any of his schtick. No doubt he is one of those guys who long for the ‘old days’...
I hadn’t thought of Beslan as being the thing that “made” Putin, but it makes sense. It seems to me (a distant observer) that he became a strongman rather than just being a President around that time probably because he knew he could get away with it. I read somewhere that Russia’s recent exploits in Syria also boosted Putin’s popularity. I’m not a Putin fan, just trying to connect the dots.
I remember Posner from the old Radio Moscow days. I guess once a shill, always a shill.
I remember Joe Adamov, too. Later, after the Soviet Union fell, he basically admitted everything on Radio Moscow was BS.
I remember Joe Adamov too. Well, good for him for admitting it was bs. Better late than never.
I bet you used to listen to Radio Tirana. Boy now there was some entertaining listening there.
Pushing the same Putin line that James Baker, in conversation and no where else, promised Gorbachev that with a reunited Germany the U.S./NATO would not move “one inch east”.Gorby himself has said that conversation was in relation to U.S. & NATO forces in Germany. Remember at the time Poland was still a Soviet/Warsaw pact state, and Poland shared borders with Eastern Germany. The Gorby-Baker discussion was not about the future of former Soviet states of Eastern Europe and what decisions of those state, regarding their own security concerns, that the U.S. and NATO would prevent them from making.
Yep, I listened to all of them more or less - I know, it’s an odd idea for entertainment. Radio Tirana was really militant and so was Radio Prague.
OMD actually did a sample of Radio Prague’s Interval Signal on the album “Dazzle Ships”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oWSJpIHhYk
Thank. I recognized the name. The Left played him and Gorby up as the good guys.
I got a QSL card from Radio Havana Cuba. I’m sure the CIA made a note of it, LOL!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.