Posted on 11/11/2001 1:22:50 PM PST by CommiesOut
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New World Order and Serbs - Part XX
WHO IS THE REAL PUTIN?
He is lean, tough, scrupulous and a born-again Christian. No wonder Vladimir Putin is the most
popular politican in his home country. By a country mile. No wonder the unscrupulous, cowardly,
godless fat cats of the New World Order, who applauded when NATO “Uebermenschen”
(supermen) were killing women and children in Serbia last year when they weren’t bombing
wooden MiG and tank dummies, are sounding a “Red Alert?” (in a Wall Street Journal editorial Jan.
24, 2000). In a typical style of communist propagandists - tell a lie, omit some truth, tell the victim
he’s uncouth - the Journal editors were calling Russia’s acting president a Stalin sympathizing
communist.
Once upon a time, Winston Churchill described Russia as a "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an
enigma." But that was back in the days when Joseph Stalin ran the Kremlin communist show; when
things were “red” and “white,” if not black and white in Russia. And when the American and British
people were supposed to forget Stalin’s murderous crimes against their Christian brothers in
Russia, because this FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Churchill pal was killing more German
(Christians, again) than Russians during WW II.
Nowadays, however, things are far more complicated in Russia. Who is the real Vladimir Putin? A
former KGB apparatchik, who has been biding his time pretending to be a “reformer,” until he got
to power when he is showing his true communist nature? That’s certainly the prevailing view of the
New World Order (NWO) Russophobic commentators.
Or is Putin a new “savior of Mother Russia,” a true patriot who will restore this vast country to its
former place as a world superpower?
Or is he just another “here today, gone tomorrow” Russian politician, just like a series of prime
ministers whom the former Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, had recycled through the Kremlin’s top
management post.
Ever since the Truth in Media ran the piece, “Putin Putting Russia Back on World Powers Map,” TiM
GW Bulletin 2000/1-2, Jan. 5 (which has been subsequently republished in Russian in Moscow and
in Serbian in Belgrade - see my Jan. 18 Beograd.com column), we’ve received lots of interesting
feedback from the TiM readers in Russia and around the world.
To the skeptics I replied that, the jury is still out on Putin. But with passing week this January, the
world could see more signs which suggested the point two above may be the most likely. Here’s an
excerpt from my Jan. 10 comment sent to a Russian TiM reader, now living in Baku, Azerbaijan:
“The jury is still out on Putin. My own mind's not made up about him, either. But his early moves
have been encouraging. Such as firing Dyachenko (Yeltsin's daughter), for example, and going
down to Grozny on New Year's Day. And that's all we can go by. For now...
Since Jan. 10, of course, Putin has made quite a few other moves which reaffirmed my initial
assessment. Such as firing on Jan. 11 Pavel Borodin (of the “Yeltsin family”), and demoting Mikhail
Aksyonenko (of the “Berezovsky family”). And his doing an end-around the “reformists” in the
Russian Parliament, whom he frustrated enough to shoot themselves in the foot, by boycotting a
crucial session of the Duma in late January.
But perhaps the most surprising and revealing part of Putin, which may have caused all the wrath
the godless NWO commentators unleashed on him, was that, far from being a hardcore
communist, Russia’s new popular acting president may be a born-again Christian.
It was Orthodox Christmas Eve (Jan. 6), and Vladimir Putin went straight to the essence of the
Christian understanding of the holiday. "Why did Christ come into the world?" he said, apparently
speaking without prepared text, or a teleprompter. "To liberate people from sickness, troubles,
from death. In its essence, Christmas is a holiday of hope."
Putin's Jan. 6 remarks were vastly different from the conventional holiday pronouncements by
Russian politicians, who usually confine themselves to praising the role of the Orthodox Church in
Russian history, and in promoting social harmony.
Putin's remarks could have come straight from a sermon.
“As the world tries to understand the often-inscrutable acting president, attempting to figure out
what exactly he did as a KGB officer in Germany and an aide to the mayor of St. Petersburg, at
least one of his personal characteristics is becoming clear: He is an active Orthodox Christian with
a more than passable knowledge of the faith,” the Moscow Times reported on Jan. 21.
When Putin became president on Dec. 31, he specifically asked for the Russian Patriarch Alexy's
blessing for the three-month transitional period. And Putin received it, as the Russian news
agencies and television reported.
Putin also made the sign of the cross and listened attentively during the televised Christmas
service in the newly opened Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow (which Stalin had razed).
At the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity on the Sparrow Hills, where Putin stopped by for half an
hour on Christmas Eve, people could easily tell he was a real believer. "You can instantly tell if a
person is a believer or not," Priest Alexander Antipov, who serves at the church, said in an
interview with the Moscow Times on Jan. 18. "Putin is a believer."
"He was the first politician who asked for the Holy Patriarch's blessing," he said. "If any cause
begins with prayer, it is already good. It means that the person has a moral basis in life. Let's
hope!"
A prominent Orthodox priest in Moscow who asked not to be identified said he had talked with
Putin about matters of faith before he became prime minister, and confirmed that he is a
"believing Orthodox man."
But did you ever hear about any of this - in America, a predominantly Christian country (America),
and the “land of the (supposedly) free?” I certainly haven’t. I’ve only learned this from our Russian
sources. Instead, Americans been inundated with various Russophobic comments.
One exception is the Newsweek, which reported in January that Putin became religious three years
ago, after rescuing his two daughters, now ages 13 and 14, from a fire at a “dacha” (country
home) near St. Petersburg. Journalist Yevgenia Albats, who co-authored Newsweek's profile of
Putin, said she had received the information from "a very close friend of Putin's," according to the
Moscow Times.
Priest Maxim Kozlov, dean of Moscow State University's St. Tatyana Chapel, said the fact that Putin
is a believer does not necessarily say much about him as a politician. "But it gives us hope that a
person, who understands himself as an Orthodox Christian, would refuse to do certain things in
politics," Kozlov said. "Unfortunately, we cannot say the same about others. There, money rules
everything."
A man who “has a moral basis in life” has become the head of the only country in the world with
the means to confront the world where “money rules everything.” No wonder the Journal is calling
Putin a communist and is sounding a “Red Alert.” For, the Wall Street-centered New World Order
based on a “might is right” principle may be starting to unravel. And that’s something America’s
Main Street should cheer.
But unraveling of the “NWO empire” did begin in Serbia, a country known as the “graveyard of
empires.” As one Russian reader recently put it, “the Serbs stand like a rock and fall like a cliff.”
The “tsunami” which the fall of Kosovo has caused is yet to reach America. And it may be a while
before it crashes on our shores. But it is certainly on its way, via Russia, India and China.
And it all started as NATO’s bombing of Serbia ended last year… The Serbs and the 250 Russian
troops executed a Slavic version of American football’s “end around” play last June, snatching the
sophisticated and heavily fortified underground Pristina (Kosovo) Slatina military airport right
under the noses of their gleeful but klutzy NATO “Uebermenschen.”
It was from that day forward, June 11, 1999, that Boris Yeltsin became merely a model for a
future wax figure in a New World Order museum. And that the epitaphs for Bill Clinton, Tony Blair,
Gen. Wesley Clark or Madeleine Albright were already written.
After that, it was just a matter of time before the official Russian foreign policy began to reflect the
reality of Cold War II. Yeltsin’s appointment of Putin, a total unknown in the West, to the post of
the prime minister on Aug. 9, was the first step. Yeltsin’s stepping down as Russia’s president on
Dec. 31, completed his transition from a president to a wax figure. (Notice even God’s symmetry
with the way Yeltsin cam to power - failed coup in August 1991, Gorbachev’s resignation in
December 1991?).
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Who's the hater, Carol?
Although that KGB training neglected to relieve him of the natural human facial reponses to questions that are dead give aways to a lie. I noticed this in his 20/20 interview, very telling to say the least. He's quite the readable guy if you know what to look for, which is why the title of this thread made me LOL.
the russians, not us, are now operating under a 13% FLAT PERSONAL INCOME TAX, thanks to putin
private real estate ownership just became legal in large cities, thanks to putin
the list of initiatives goes on, and the russian economy will perform relatively better than we will in the foreseeable future
as for huff-and-puff-tex, m. thatcher is appropriating my recent estimate of iq being "somewhere between the body weight of calista flockhart and room temperature" after an equally inane comment on another thread
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