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All Dead Politicians Become Angels

By David Truskoff

30 April, 2007
Countercurrents.org

While in Moscow in 1996, I was privy to the most outrageous, scandalous, so called democratic elections ever perpetrated on one nation. An old, not bright drunk, who plunged his country into chaos, and brought his people to the brink of starvation, was one of the candidates. He was on the verge of being tried for corruption, and he already gave away his own countries assets. Can you believe that person was running for re-election to the presidency? He had a rating of only 8% in the Russian candidate polls, but he was still catapulted by western intervention back into office.

How you might ask is that possible, How was it possible to put George W. Bush into the position of world leader? His polls are now down to less than 30%, but if need be the same kind of machinery could get him re-elected. All that is needed is money.

Russians deprived of education under the czar, fought the revolution and then had to endure the horrors of the Great War, were not enlightened about what the West really meant by "Democracy". They were led to believe that it meant really free elections. In Russia in 1996 operating behind the scenes were Americans like Richard Dresner and Steven Moore both public relations specialists financed by billions in Western money. Prior to the election they were busy keeping alcoholic Boorish Boris from further destroying himself. It was the most blatant illegal intervention into sovereign states' politics in history. $14 billion in, so called, loans came directly from the US. Hundreds of millions, more were channeled through Germany and France. International Monetary Fund managing director Michel Camdessus committed the IMF to a $Billion. Huge amounts of this money went to the Video International (VI) whose staff was trained in the way Americans promote a candidate by the American advertising firm Ogilvy and Mather .

Everywhere you went in Moscow you saw huge billboards of a smiling and even sober looking Yelstin. Boorish Boris himself was not visible. He was having another serious heart problem. A subject the controlled media did not emphasize. Yes, It was like taking a cadaver and bringing it to the presidency. Very little was heard about other candidates.

As one who spent some time producing television commercials, the directness and unabashed hyperbole and downright delusive commercials running frequently on Russian Television stunned me.

The viewer first saw, in black and white, what was purported to be old films of prisoners in prison garb trudging through the snow at some awful Soviet gulag, The announcer would ask,"Is this what you want to go back to?" The picture would then turn to lovely color, just like in the film classic "The Wizard of Oz," and the colorful picture would depict a handsome couple driving a new expensive convertible down one of the most expensive shopping streets in Moscow at that time, and the announcer would ask, "or would you rather have this." See, If you voted for Yelstin you would be rich like Americans.

The first time I saw it I laughed, but my host, a Soviet writer, did not. "We have been under an embargo for almost fifty years," he said, "and we have endured almost a century of war; the revolution, the Great war, the cold war, people are tired and they want things. They want their children to have an enjoyable life. They want to believe. They just may be led further away from Marx."

At the same time two Harvard- based men were injecting more agonizing poison into the Russian economy. After all these years a U.S. District Court judge found in April of 2007 that Mr. Shleifer and former Harvard employee Jonathan Hay "conspired to defraud" the US government while on a "Special mission to re-structure the Russian economy in the 1990s. Shleifer and Hay, actually became part of the corruption that was already out of control while Yeltsin was giving away the store.

And then there was Jeffry Sachs also from Harvard USA who was appointed, (actually no one is sure how he was appointed, or by whom) to be the chief economic advisor to Boris Yeltsin from 1991 to 1994. Sachs installed "shock therapy" to further torture the agonizing population. "Shock Therapy" really opened the door for the oligarchs to steal the assets while employees went unpaid and Russians actually lived in starving conditions. An unbelievable decline in life expectancy shocked the world as Russians died from lack of nutrition and health care. Wages and pensions often went unpaid. The nation's population fell by more than 2 million, due largely to the steep decline in public health. For most Russians the country still has not recovered.

One has to wonder what the director of the CIA had to say to Yeltsin when he went to Russia and met Boris in 1992. When all the money in the world could no longer prop up Yeltsin because of his deteriorating health and drunkenness, he was forced to make a choice of resigning or going to jail. He resigned because the bribery scandal, supposedly involving Mobitex Switzerland, and reports of other kickbacks and gifts given to him and his family made it impossible for Yeltsin to survive, He made a deal. He appointed Putin to succeed him and in return he received a full pardon for him and his family.

As I write this Ex American Presidents George H. Bush, (yes the same Bush that once said, "We will bleed them (Russians) White") and old Yelstin buddy Bill Clinton are in Moscow to pay their RESPECTS to the great man that defeated Communism.

One might think that all Russians are slow thinkers. How could they have tolerated it for so long, but then some names come to mind…Nixon…Reagan…Bush…Bush. How could we have tolerated it for so long?

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