Posted on 08/11/2018 9:10:40 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Russia is the birthplace of modern terrorism,” with 19th century Russian nihilists and secret societies advocating a violent overthrow of Tsarist rule.
Soviet aid to terrorist organizations was a staple of Moscow’s strategy against the West and its allies during the Cold War.
Yasser Arafat, a founder of the Palestinian Fatah movement and future head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Palestinian Authority (PA), received KGB training in east Moscow in the early 1960s.
According to The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World, a book by historian Christopher Andrew and the KGB operative turned defector Vasili Mitrokhin, the “unexpected surge” of international terrorism in the early 1970s coupled with the successful backing of Sandinista guerrillas in Latin America “encouraged” Moscow to “consider the use of Palestinian terrorists as proxies in the Middle East and Europe.”
These groups, such as the Japanese Red Army, Italy’s Red Brigades, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) and various German organizations all “shared Marxist philosophies, a hatred of America” and “solidarity with the Palestinians,” Lockwood notes. On the latter point, the analyst pointed out: “Palestinian groups were enthusiastic participants in Soviet terror largesse.”
This went hand in glove with the USSR’s propaganda campaign to tar Zionism, the belief in Jewish self-determination, as racism; a tool, it was said, of Western colonialist oppression.
Together, communist-backed terrorist groups pioneered airplane hijackings and the purposeful targeting – including mass murder – of civilians. Indeed, General Alexander Sakharovsky, who headed the KGB’s First Chief Directorate that oversaw operations abroad, bragged in 1971: “Airplane hijacking is my own invention.”
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This should really upset the FR Putin butt kissers. Can’t understand why they are allowed to remain here. Weird.
All that stuff fed to the Arabs about Jews killing and eating Arab babies came directly from Moscow, starting in the 60s. The Soviets invented that crap.
Jul 6, 2017
President Trump called Russia a “destabilizing” influence in Europe and the Middle East, and urged it to “join the community of responsible nations,” in his strongest remarks yet against the regime of Vladimir Putin, whom he is scheduled to meet Friday in Hamburg for the first time.
His remarks in Warsaw’s Krasinski Square, which marks the 1944 Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, came after the U.S. agreed to sell Patriot missiles to Poland. The president also used the opportunity to reiterate the NATO commitment to mutual defense, a declaration he did not make during the NATO summit in May, prompting consternation among U.S. allies wary of Russia’s ambitions.
“To those who would criticize our tough stance, I would point out that the United States has demonstrated—not merely with its words but with its actions—that we stand firmly behind Article 5, the mutual-defense commitment,” Trump said Thursday. “Words are easy, but actions are what matters. And for its own protection, Europe, and you know this, everybody knows this, everybody has to know this, Europe must do more.”
Trump has repeatedly said NATO members must spend more on defense—a position in line with past U.S. administrations. But he has been criticized because he appeared to suggest U.S. commitment to mutual defense was predicated on its allies’ defense spending. ...”
https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2017/07/trump-russia/532761/
I don’t know how Putin thinks, but if he wanted to earn the trust (and indeed love) of right-wing people and movements, as well as strike a clear differentiation in everyone’s mind between the previous Soviet Union vs. present day Russia - he would admit to, and reveal the exact methods and facts of, the Soviet Union and Comintern’s cultural attack on the West.
You got zotted last time for the praise “Putin Pecker Puffers” - let’s see if it happens again.
Its not as clever a comment as you think.
Lol.
McCain, the Ayatollah of Russophobe nuts,
was a victim of USSR’s “terrorism”.
He was locked and beaten by USSR-backed Vietnam.
Along the way an awful lot of people, most of them innocent, had to die. I don't see the glory in this, but the t-shirts still sell.
Come on, that was the cold war.
America used to provide money, weapons and trainings to Mujahideens in Afghan and Pakistan.
No need to mention America-backed Pinochet regime, the war on left wingers in Chile was very bloody(massacre, torture,assassination.....)
Russophobe nuts are full of McCain’s old crap.
Yes, it was the Cold War, but it was an ideological war, above all.
Disagreements we have with Russia now are (at least on the surface) standard strategic, trade and special-interest disputes. Many reasons for the present poor state of relations with Russia may be on the USA side - the deep-state, military-industrial, Wall Street/Financial and of course, our own destructive leftist post-modern ideology are hiding a lot as well.
Post Nov 9 2016 we can see that the American Left are willing to play with very dangerous fire to maintain an absurd domestic political position
As mentioned, it probably fantasy, but I believe Putin could detonate much of this opposition by admitting and revealing the cultural war the Soviet Union waged on the West.
FR’s russophobe nuts would scream at Trump like a bunch of mad cows, if they know the history of MEK, Trump government’s ally (anti-Iran).
Or Kurds’ anti-Israel, pro-PLA stance during 1970-2000.
Claire Sterling talks about this in her early 1980s book - The Terror Network.
The democrat party is doing the same thing here with riots and using thugs to attack.
Beat me to it. This was on the required reading list at Ft Huachuca.
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