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I
am certainly not the only person who questioned where an ex-head of
SMERSH would take an emerging Russian democracy, but it was
actually a pretty easy call. Communists are, after all, merely
Liberals with an attitude. Liberals assume the moral high ground
in everything, which allows them to do whatever it takes to implement
their plan for us. Commies differ only in seeing guns as a useful
tool in the process. So it is that the Russkies have turned full circle in just
under a score years.
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MOSCOW:
On a talk show last autumn, a prominent political analyst named Mikhail
Delyagin offered some tart words about Vladimir Putin. When the program
was televised, Delyagin was not.
His remarks were cut and he was digitally erased from the show, like a
disgraced comrade airbrushed from an old Soviet photo. (The technicians
may have worked a bit hastily; they left his disembodied legs in one
shot.)
Delyagin, it turned out, has for some time resided on the so-called
stop list, a roster of political opponents and other critics of the
government who have been barred from television news and political talk
shows by the Kremlin.
The stop list is, as Delyagin put it, "an excellent way to stifle dissent."
It is also a striking indication of how Putin has relied on the
Kremlin-controlled television networks to consolidate power, especially
in recent elections. [Continue Putin's opponents ...]
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Update: Putin sees Keith Olbermann as a "team player," and has offered him Delyagin's old job. Developing hard.
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