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Putin’s New ‘Treason Bill’ Makes The Stalinization Of Russia All But Complete
It looks like the Soviet Union isn’t dead after all. Vladimir Putin has spent years gutting every democratic institution in Russia. No more free media or free speech. No right to assembly, no independent judiciary, etc. Now, it appears that Putin is putting the icing on his totalitarian cake with a new “Treason bill” that is expected to become law.
New legislation backed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin would allow Russian authorities to label any government critic a traitor—a move that rights activists said Wednesday was a chilling throwback to times of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
The bill, which is expected to become law, would expanded the definition of treason to include damaging Russia’s constitutional order, sovereignty or territorial integrity. That, rights activists said, would essentially let authorities interpret any act against state as treason—a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Activists said that would catapult Russia’s justice system back to the times of Stalin’s purges, calling it “legislation in the spirit of Stalin and Hitler.”
“It returns the Russian justice to the times of 1920-1950s,” the activists, which included Moscow Helsinki Group head Lyudmila Alexeyeva and Civic Assistance director Svetlana Gannushkina, said in a joint statement.
This is the final death nail for any kind of free speech in Russia. Putin’s grip on the country is now complete. Russia is once again a Soviet dictatorship with a KGB man at its head. Up to this point, Russia hasn’t been able to declare open season on human rights, because victims of the regime could complain to the European Court of Human Rights. These complaints are made through NGO’s and the new law will effectively neuter all NGO’s in Russia.
Putin will be free to re-open the gullogs and be the KGB strongman he’s always wanted to be. America haters love to call president Bush a ‘war criminal’ but somehow miss the fact that Vladimir Putin actually is a war criminal. The atrocities committed in Chechnya by the Russian military make Iraq look like Disneyland.
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“This is the final death nail for any kind of free speech in Russia.” “Makes The Stalinization Of Russia All But Complete”.
Do you know anything about Stalinism – or about Russia for that matter?
There are very active and critical newspapers in Russia. Novaya Gazeta is just one. It’s the TV channels that are pure propaganda.
Oh, and stalinism has returned! Hmm if that was true then I would have been shot already as I’m a foreigner living in Russia.
The situation regarding political freedom in Russia is serious enough as it is. There is no need to exaggerate and distort like you do.
Get your facts straight.
nice response from Sceptic to debunk the article unless Sceptic is part of the propaganda to tamp down criticism??!!! could be…
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I only believe what I know. I can’t know what happened before me and what will happen after me or how many days the world was created in or what happened to the dinosaurs. I don’t know if the leader is following the law exactly like I don’t if the world was created in seven days or if there is a heaven. Saying the leader follows the law is the exact same answer as saying the world was created in seven days. All it is is the search to know.
Civilocity is a solution to end genocide. What do you want to know? Politicians and people are asked one question, do you want to live in a society that is led by a person who ensures law or one that doesn’t? There are two sides and you have to pick one. Do you want to live in a society that is led by a person who ensures law or one that doesn’t. Watching the leader the entire time, live on public TV, would ensure the country is led by a person who follows the law. I wrote a new form of government called civilocity that ensures law.
I never thought it would be so hard to get someone to write an article about putting locks on the cock pits after 911 the same goes for I never thought it would be so hard to get a Iraqi to publish an article to put a camera on the person leading a country especially after whats happened in Iraq, the same goes for I never thought it would be so hard to get a german to publish an article to put a camera on the person leading a country especially after whats happened in world war two, and the same goes for I never thought it would be so hard to get a soldier to publish an article to put a camera on the person leading a country especially after whats happens in war. It already happened again a leader without law.