Putin Out and Proud
Ken Blackwell & Bob Morrison / American Thinker
The Wall Street Journal recently showed Vladimir Putin in Crimea. There was the saturnine Slav in an unusually ebullient mood. He was standing in front of a banner ostensibly celebrating the victory of the USSR in what Russians still call “The Great Patriotic War” against Hitler in 1945.
Of course, some would argue that the only reason Vladimir Vladimirovich appeared before the large red banner with its Communist hammer-and-sickle insignia is for historical accuracy. Those victory banners from 1945 have a long history in Russia.
Defenders of Putin’s public association with the symbols of Soviet power might say it is rather like us celebrating America’s victory at Fort McHenry in 1814 with a fifteen-star, fifteen-stripe “Star-Spangled Banner.”
Or we might see all this for what it is. Vladimir Putin is a KGB agent who thinks the collapse of the USSR was an historic tragedy. During the champagne-fizzy euphoria of the 1990s, Russia had a new flag and a new hope for democracy. Then the woozy President Yeltsin charmed Westerners with his courage and his willingness to confront Russia’s grim Communist past. The Russian Orthodox Church even was allowed to recover the remains of the last Tsar and his family and re-inter them in sanctified ground.
In those heady days, the Moscow statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky was torn down. “Iron Felix” was the founder of the CHEKA. That was the predecessor of the KGB, where Putin trained. Earlier in this decade, however, Putin reportedly had a bust of Iron Felix restored to the Lubyanka, the main prison whose entrance was called, for generations of Russians, “the Gates of Hell.”
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WHAT ………………………………. ever.
Quit living in the past
John Rolls: dead ender. Your knowledge of current politics is about 20 years out of date
This writer needs to keep up to date. Putin WAS a KBG agent LONG AGO. But no more. He is against Commuism and warned Bush and Obama NOT to let it happen here. Since he has run his Russia as a Free country he has taken it OUT of terrible debt into great wealth. Putin has returned to his Christian roots. His country as been blessed by that . Wish we had him as our leader !