Panzermann Posted April 30, 2019 Posted April 30, 2019 (edited) What happens, when a certain president steps through the closet that leads to Narnia? ​ ​ The Ride-On King Alexander Purchinov is president for life of the country of Pursia, a country ruled by violence and the influence of its government. Alexander always desires to be dominant, and "ride" things, whether literally or figuratively. Now that he has already ridden his country, his next target is a fantasy world that has orcs, wyverns, and centaurs. similarities to actually living persons unintenional of course. Edited April 30, 2019 by Panzermann
Stuart Galbraith Posted June 28, 2019 Posted June 28, 2019 (edited) https://uk.news.yahoo.com/vladimir-putin-liberalism-obsolete-070434243.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmluZy5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMP9KziZNJvv_Gb8phaMJKIGuECkE1e7kOZGNFW_T2bzTe3-jAsZGJFLkiIQO4ymOCi18VjvF4ZLVX-KlnnouAjsxqwpBZ3gLwi0h8i-d59_4gaLgas4e5w-c_K6Toi75rRQdVq48DzGQRfjNXDvoWRtwvCtiR8_7-_CnVF-wbP5Vladimir Putin has come under fire for suggesting that liberalism is ‘obsolete’ and has outlived its purpose.The Russian President also suggested that LGBT rights are ‘overshadowing’ culture, traditions and traditional family values, as well as saying migrants can “kill, plunder and rape with impunity”.In an interview with the Financial Times ahead of the G20 summit, Mr Putin said: "The liberal idea has become obsolete. It has come into conflict with the interests of the overwhelming majority of the population".He said: “[Liberals] cannot simply dictate anything to anyone just like they have been attempting to do over the recent decades. This liberal idea presupposes that nothing needs to be done.” He also said while Russia had “no problems with LGBT persons”....“some things do appear excessive to us”.“They claim now that children can play five or six gender roles,” Mr Putin said.“Let everyone be happy, we have no problem with that. But this must not be allowed to overshadow the culture, traditions and traditional family values of millions of people making up the core population.” During the interview, the Russian leader also praised Donald Trump for his attempts to stop migrants entering the US from Mexico.He said liberalism: "presupposes that nothing needs to be done. That migrants can kill, plunder and rape with impunity because their rights as migrants have to be protected". His comments have prompted anger from European Union president Donald Tusk, who hit out at the Russian president to reporters and via Twitter.Mr Tusk said: “We are here as Europeans also to firmly and unequivocally defend and promote liberal democracy.”He said Mr Putin’s comments suggested a belief that: “freedoms are obsolete, that the rule of law is obsolete and that human rights are obsolete”.He added: “What I find really obsolete are: authoritarianism, personality cults, the rule of oligarchs. Even if sometimes they may seem effective.” Donald TuskVerified account @eucopresident I strongly disagree with President Putin that liberalism is obsolete. What I find really obsolete are authoritarianism, personality cults, the rule of oligarchs. Edited June 28, 2019 by Stuart Galbraith
Stuart Galbraith Posted July 18, 2019 Posted July 18, 2019 Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow expects to rebuild partnerships and launch constructive dialogues with the European Union (EU) after the European Commission elected its new president, the Kremlin said Wednesday. http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1158286.shtmlIn a congratulatory message to Ursula von der Leyen on her election as the president of the European Commission, Putin said that her rich political experience and international standing will contribute to the European Commission's constructive work and help "restore the equal and mutually beneficial partnership between the EU and Russia," according to a Kremlin statement.He also reaffirmed Russia's readiness to engage in constructive dialogue with the EU on major political, economic and humanitarian issues, it added.On Tuesday, German Defense Minister Leyen was elected as the new president of the European Commission, making history as the first female chief executive of the European Union.Relations between Russia and the EU soured in 2014 when Crimea was incorporated into Russia following a referendum. Western countries have since imposed various sets of economic sanctions on Russian entities and individuals. What do you know, I guess that Russian farmers cheese has lost some of its luster.
Chris Werb Posted July 18, 2019 Posted July 18, 2019 One for you, Stuart https://www.fort-russ.com/2019/07/russian-general-we-made-a-big-mistake-when-we-withdrew-from-kosovo/
urbanoid Posted July 19, 2019 Posted July 19, 2019 “They’ve thought up six or five genders – transformers, trans… I don’t even understand what it is myself,” he said at a press conference at the summit. Putin at G20 summit
Stuart Galbraith Posted July 19, 2019 Posted July 19, 2019 One for you, Stuart https://www.fort-russ.com/2019/07/russian-general-we-made-a-big-mistake-when-we-withdrew-from-kosovo/ Not to worry, they are trying to put that one right as we speak. https://www.stopfake.org/en/new-russian-ambassador-to-serbia-starts-mandate-with-false-claims/ “They’ve thought up six or five genders – transformers, trans… I don’t even understand what it is myself,” he said at a press conference at the summit. Putin at G20 summit Putin is the 6th Gender, Homo Sovieticus, with 12 inches of Urals steel as backbone.
FlyingCanOpener Posted July 19, 2019 Posted July 19, 2019 At the local 24-hour eatery: Others in the series:
Stuart Galbraith Posted July 19, 2019 Posted July 19, 2019 I must admit, I do like the sound of a Kimburger. Does it come with extra relish, or just plenty of hubris?
JWB Posted November 1, 2022 Posted November 1, 2022 Vladimir Putin Using At Least Three Body Double Doppelgängers As Rumors About Russian Leader's Health Continue To Swirl (msn.com)
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BansheeOne Posted June 7, 2023 Posted June 7, 2023 Quote Putin the Pen-Pusher? Russian President's Years in Germany Seem Less Exciting than the Stories Wild stories have circulated for years about Vladimir Putin's time with the KGB in Dresden. There are even rumors he helped orchestrate a murder carried out by German terrorists. But reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the Russian leader was more of a pen-pusher than a top agent. By Sven Röbel und Wolfgang Tietze 07.06.2023, 11.13 Uhr For a number of years, a story has been circulating about the Russian president. It goes like this: During the 1980s, Vladimir Putin was on a top-secret mission in East Germany as a young officer in the feared Soviet secret service agency KGB. From the agency's station in Dresden, he purportedly maintained contacts with left-wing terrorists belonging the Red Army Faction (RAF) in West Germany, supplying them with both weapons and instructions. Putin is said to have repeatedly led conspiratorial meetings between the KGB, the East German Ministry for State Security (the notorious Stasi) and the RAF, at which attacks on prominent targets were also discussed – such as the assassination of Deutsche Bank CEO Alfred Herrhausen. The narrative of Putin's alleged RAF connections found its way into two standard international works on the Kremlin leader's life – including British journalist Catherine Belton's bestseller "Putin's People." The same informant apparently served as the source in both works: an alleged former RAF member who was granted anonymity. For quite some time, experts puzzled over who the source for the RAF story could be. Now, it seems, the mystery has been resolved: The person in question is believed to be Dietmar C. from the town of Dillingen in the western state of Saarland. That fact could prove to be a serious problem for the credibility of the Putin narrative. It turns out that C., now 71, has been many things in his eventful life: a hippie, a bank robber, a key source of questionable revelations – but he was very clearly never a member of the RAF. Instead, he is considered a notorious fabulist and has several previous convictions, including for making false statements. The case highlights a broader problem with some of the reporting that has been conducted into Putin's KGB past. Ever since the former spy ascended to become Russia’s leader, researchers, journalists and biographers have been combing through his years of service in East Germany from 1985 to 1990. In the eagerness to find new details, fact and fiction have sometimes blurred, and somewhere along the line, the man from Leningrad gained the reputation for being a Soviet super agent. The literature is full of speculation about Hollywood-like special missions in which Putin is alleged to have been involved: a secret operation to overthrow the East German government; the establishment of a network of agents made up of defected Stasi employees; or the blackmail of a toxic materials researcher, on whom pornographic material was to be planted. Even today, there is no convincing evidence for these stories. In the Stasi files that have been made public so far, there are only a few pages in which Putin is even mentioned at all. They cover rather banal events such as birthday greetings, administrative matters or German-Soviet friendship evenings, captured in slightly faded photographs. The fact that there is so little about him in the files itself provides grounds for speculation: Were Putin's assignments so explosive that all traces were consistently erased from official documents? Or was he actually just performing routine work that was simply too trivial to be archived by the Stasi? According to Horst Jehmlich, the chief aide to the last Dresden Stasi chief, Putin played only a minor role in the neighboring KGB station. Putin was more of an "errand boy" at the regional KGB station, Jehmlich told DER SPIEGEL. Although Putin sometimes signed requests to the Ministry of State Security (MfS), important matters were always clarified personally by the Soviet head of the KGB station – with the help of an MfS interpreter and without Putin. Putin's former office neighbor at the KGB office in Dresden echoed Jehmlich's view. He said that his colleague was "a complete conformist" whose work consisted mainly of sifting through an endless stream of applications to visit family in West Germany or searching for potential informants among foreign students at the University of Dresden. None of that served to diminish speculation about explosive special missions, especially since Putin himself has never made any explicit statements about the work he performed in East Germany. The legend of having been a top spy shrouded in secrecy isn't likely one that he finds particularly bothersome. [...] The supposed Dresden connection between the RAF and the KGB isn’t the only narrative that captured the imagination of biographers, journalists and Putin scholars. The reports range from Putin’s purported secret spy network to a known neo-Nazi whom the KGB man is said to have handled as an informant. There is no evidence for any of these episodes in the Stasi files that have been made public so far. The titillating stories first began circulating at the beginning of 2000, when Putin had just become Russian president and hordes of reporters went in search of clues about his past. Britain’s Sunday Times reported on a "ring of 15 agents" that Putin had allegedly built. The Sächsische Zeitung newspaper wrote that among the secret inductees was the notorious Dresden-based neo-Nazi Rainer Sonntag, who was shot dead in 1991. And in the German daily Die Welt, one could read about an East German medical doctor on whom Putin's agents allegedly wanted to plant "pornography with young girls" in order to get him to feed false data about "chemical warfare" into a computer network. Public broadcaster ZDF and the newsweekly Focus, meanwhile, also reported on a spy network, and the Reuters news agency made the story virtually official in May 2000. The spokesman for the Stasi records office, the news agency reported at the time, confirmed that Putin had set up an agent ring of former Stasi employees in 1990 to continue working for the Soviets after the end of East Germany. However, the statement from the agency turned out to be false. In fact, the records office wrote the next day in a little-noticed "clarification" that it had neither knowledge nor documents "on the activities of the former KGB officer Vladimir Putin in Dresden." The journalists from various media had based their reporting primarily on the information provided by a dismissed Stasi employee named Klaus Z., who operated under pseudonyms such as "Peter Ackermann" or "Michael Mannstein." The now 66-year-old did not have a glittering career at the Stasi. In the early 1980s, he initially worked as a low-level employee in Department XV of the Dresden district administration before being transferred to the less prestigious Department VIII in 1988. There, according to his personnel file, he dealt with "conspiratorial residential area investigations," among other things. The following year, he was transferred again and took care of "technical security" at Stasi properties. Confessions to West German Intelligence His superiors were ambivalent about the young lieutenant: On the one hand, he was characterized by a "high level of commitment and maximum utilization of working time," but on the other hand, he tended to get lost in the thicket of information. Because he always strives to "clarify facts down to the smallest detail," the comrade quickly loses sight of the big picture, his superiors noted. Klaus Z. also provided a large number of details to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution after the fall of communism. Following his release from the Stasi, he traveled in frustration to Cologne during Christmas 1990 and offered his services to West German counterintelligence. At this point, a good year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the interest of the agent hunters for internal information from the Dresden Stasi field office was no longer all that pronounced. Their interest increased only when the conversation turned to the "friends" from the KGB. Klaus Z. reported on an alcohol-filled party at the end of 1984, to which he had been taken by his wife, who was working for the East German criminal police at the time. At the party, he claims to have met a certain Georg S., who went by the nickname "Schorsch." Officially, he was with Department K1 of the Volkspolizei, the East German national police, but in reality, Klaus Z. reported, he worked mainly for the KGB. Klaus Z. claimed to have met a Russian named "Volodya" during Stasi company sporting activities in 1985, and that they visited each other privately and went on excursions. Later, Klaus Z. claimed to have learned that "Volodya" was a contact of "Schorsch" at the KGB. Once it became clear that East Germany was soon to disintegrate, he said, they jointly considered whether Z. could henceforth work for the KGB in a conspiratorial capacity, but the plan was never implemented, he said. Following his Cologne Christmas confession in 1990, Klaus Z. started a new life in West Germany - including a stint as a security man at public broadcaster ZDF. He fell off the radar at that point - until he surprisingly contacted his case worker at the Office for the Protection of the Constitution again in 1999. He said he had recognized "Volodya" on television, the Soviet intelligence man he had once met in Dresden. The person in question was none other than the recently appointed Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. He claimed the he had played sports and went on excursions with him during that time in Dresden. He said that the last time he had met Putin was in January 1990, in his apartment, together with another KGB man. He said he spontaneously pulled out some paper from the cupboard himself and wrote a handwritten declaration of commitment to the KGB. But no one ever responded to it, he said. In order to find out more details about Putin's KGB past, Klaus Z. was apparently supposed to try to reactivate his old contacts with "Schorsch," who in the meantime was working as a private detective in Dresden. The operation ended in a fiasco. Klaus Z. shared his knowledge about "Volodya" not only with the Cologne counterintelligence, but also with various media, which then spun the information he fed them into juicy stories. [...] Few Stasi documents exist about Putin himself. Among the few papers in which his name appears is a letter from 1989 in which he, representing the KGB liaison officer actually in charge, asks the Dresden Stasi chief for help. The letter references a KGB informant named Gerhard B., whose phone had been cut off. The former captain of the East German criminal police was considered a security risk because of drunkenness and debts and had been removed from service. Putin now asked the Stasi on behalf of his boss to unblock the man's telephone line, because he continued to provide support to the KGB. The role of supplicant for a washed-up informer doesn't quite fit the image of a top spy. But it probably describes Putin's everyday life in the Dresden KGB station more aptly than the stories about terrorists and secret weapons caches. In fact, things were far less glamorous in the Saxony KGB station than some non-fiction books claim. In one of the office's duties, Putin was quite familiar from his time as a secret service agent in Leningrad: the suppression of the opposition. As late as October 1989, Putin's superior, Major General Vladimir Shirokov, turned a student at Dresden Technical University in to the Stasi. "By means of the printer in his possession," the young man had duplicated an appeal from the democracy movement "New Forum" and distributed it among the students. A few weeks later, the Wall fell and the communist Socialist Unity Party (SED) regime was history. On the evening of December 5, 1989, civil rights activists marched in front of the KGB station in Dresden's Angelika Strasse, where they came face to face with Soviet soldiers who were tasked with securing the area. The scene provided the backdrop for the final myth about Putin's time in East Germany: According to one version, he heroically confronted the demonstrators, with a determined look and armed soldiers at his side. According to another version, a small man was standing at the entrance of the nearby Stasi headquarters, watching the spectacle from a safe distance. Whether Putin was even there at the time cannot be proven. https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/were-vladimir-putin-s-years-in-germany-less-thrilling-than-the-stories-a-178de140-b799-472d-83bc-5e3b1adf65b2
JWB Posted June 11, 2023 Posted June 11, 2023 Was Putin the elite spy he says he was or just a KGB errand boy? (msn.com)
JWB Posted July 28, 2023 Posted July 28, 2023 According to a Russian military insider named Igor Girkin, there is a group of wealthy Russian businessmen and bankers dubbed “the Ozeros” currently working to remove Putin from the Kremlin.
Roman Alymov Posted July 29, 2023 Posted July 29, 2023 On 6/11/2023 at 7:53 PM, JWB said: Was Putin the elite spy he says he was or just a KGB errand boy? (msn.com) No idea what is "errant boy" but we could roughly rank KGB men into following tiers 1)(top) - "Illegal" (under cover) agents on enemy territory. Extremely potent people, very carefully selected for theior talent and then trained for years for their missions. 2) "Legal" agents (working in embassies with diplomatic cover etc) on enemy territory 3) "Legal" agents and representatives on friendly territory (for example, DDR) 4) People working in USSR As you see, Putin as KGB officer was not even close to be top tier. We could safely say that the main factor in his career was not his KGB legacy, but his position of Anatoly Sobchak aid (Sobchak, formally modest mayor of Leningrad/StPete, was one of the political "stars" of late 1980th/90th)
Roman Alymov Posted July 29, 2023 Posted July 29, 2023 On 7/28/2023 at 4:33 AM, JWB said: According to a Russian military insider named Igor Girkin, there is a group of wealthy Russian businessmen and bankers dubbed “the Ozeros” currently working to remove Putin from the Kremlin. What a nonsence.... Strelkov is not "military insider", he is now in jail awaiting trail, and "group of wealthy Russian businessmen and bankers dubbed “the Ozeros” (actually "Ozero" - "Lake" ) is just close group of people from StPete who became prominent for their high positions in Rus elite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozero
JWB Posted July 29, 2023 Posted July 29, 2023 8 hours ago, Roman Alymov said: "errant boy" .... is a messenger. 8 hours ago, Roman Alymov said: Strelkov is not "military insider" He was years ago.
seahawk Posted August 3, 2023 Posted August 3, 2023 Good for Russia https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/24/vladimir-putin-signs-law-banning-gender-changes-in-russia
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