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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