"Mad Vlad' urges West and Russia to destroy Islam," By Julius Strauss in Moscow, 13/02/2004
"The West should unite with Russia against Islamic radicals and Chinese immigrants, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the flamboyant Russian ultra-nationalist, said yesterday.
"The firebrand politician, who is making a moderate political comeback in Russia, gave warning that if the former Cold War enemies did not form an alliance they would be overrun. . .
"Washington, London, Moscow and Tel Aviv need to form a common front. If we don't, the terrorist attacks we see today will continue for another 50 years. . .
"Russians fear that the growing threat of militant Islam in the Caucasus and central Asia will strike at their soft and ill-protected underbelly. . . ." [End excerpt]
Yes I know that years ago "the former lawyer. . .called for the Russian army to invade Alaska and India, drop nuclear weapons on Japan and flood Germany with radioactive waste." But that was then this is now. Some say he "has a reputation as a political weather vane who skilfully mines a rich lode in the Russian popular psyche."
Obviously communism worked well educating these terrorists. Putin seems to be in over his head.
I thought Zhirinovsky was still working covertly for the KGB, trying to destroy the credibility of the right-wing in Russia through non-coherent radical talk (thus exposing them to ridicule)?
In February, 1996, Vladimir Zhirinovsky hailed Pat Buchanan's victory in the New Hampshire presidential primary. He wrote a letter to Buchanan, saying: ``You say that Congress is 'Israeli-occupied territory.' We have the same situation in Russia. So, to survive, we could set aside places on U.S. and Russian territory to deport this small but troublesome tribe.''
Zhirinovsky called Buchanan a ``brother in arms'' and wished him a ``convincing victory'' in November's U.S. presidential ballot. Buchanan rejected Zhirinovsky's endorsement.
Zhirinovsky then changed tone. "I thought you were really defending the interests of your nation," said the letter, the text of which was released by Zhirinovsky's office. "And you've turned out to be just like Clinton and other corrupt politicians, moved by greed and vanity, not by love for the fatherland."