Valentine,
How could you possibly campare the nutjobs that think that GW Bush was behind 9/11 to people who cite evidence that the murderous KGB/FSB are still busy killing their own people???!!!...the Soviets deliberately murdered over 30 million of their own people, and that's the low estimate. Putin is one of them, and now he presides over "Russia."
"the Soviets deliberately murdered over 30 million of their own people, and that's the low estimate. Putin is one of them, and now he presides over "Russia."
Yes, they did but the Gulags stopped in the sixties. That is where the mult-millions died. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that you will not be able to support your economic system with such population decreases. In fact, I would wager the Gulags what caused the economic collapse of the Soviet Union a short couple of decades later.
Also, Putin is a very young president. He would have been around 15 when the Gulags stopped, so he did not preside over it as you suggest. Don't get me wrong, I am no fan of Putin at all. I think he is a dangerous adversary but for other reasons.