It is worse than that. The Post-Cold-War era is worse than the Cold War, and the FSB are worse than the KGB. Assassinations, bombings, kidnap, false imprisonment, theft. They make the old KGB look lovable as an organisation.
Have a read of Alex Goldfarb’s “Death of a Dissident” on the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Goldfarb_%28microbiologist%29
The book makes exciting reading and is even more readable than the best Cold War memoir, Markus Wolf’s “Man Without a Face” but is depressing because the FSB are now the gangster capitalists which the old Soviet propaganda machine always accused the Imperialists of being.
The FSB killed Litvinenko alright, and the FSB is Putin.
They seem to have done at least two other hits with Polonium, but nothing is provable because with a large enough dose it kills you before it can be diagnosed. It half-life means that a year later, there is no trace of it anyway.
What went wrong with the Litvinenko assassination was the Lugovoi botched the dose, and Litvinenko was ill for long enough that they could contact institutions with machinery to detect Polonium. It does not show up on any normal tests in hospitals.
97% of the world’s Polonium comes from a plant near Gorky. It is not possible that it is Polonium from the old Soviet system because it has a half-life of only one year.
For the FSB to obtain the Polonium, they need to contact another state institution, and to do that they need co-operation at the level of Putin.
The FSB killed Litvinenko alright, and the FSB is Putin.==
Which is just one slander.. Goldfarb has no proves except the insinuations:).
97% of the world’s Polonium comes from a plant near Gorky. ==
But what is Gorky?
Cold War II and we had better win this one too!
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Goldfarb...Berezovsky’s little lapdog. A bunch of crooks.
And it seems you are gullible enough to believe his crap.
Lets not get carried away. A government of gangsters is bad, but no one is as bad as communists. Communists have killed millions more people than gangsters, and while gangsters know that what they are doing is evil, communists kill with a clear conscious. Communists take evil to levels gangsters can't get away with because there is no gangster ideology, no ideological support from the mindless masses, only cult of personality, the crutch of every brutal dictator.