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Kasparov Arrested By Russian Police
New submitter perdelucena writes "Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov was arrested outside a Moscow court, where the verdict in the trial of the Pussy Riot group members was being announced on Friday, Russian police said." Update: 08/18 01:14 GMT by T : Kasparov has written an account of the arrest.
Some one want to explain to me why we're supposed to care about this?
The radical leftist press, e.g. alternet and the Huffington Post will of course either ignore this or suddenly decide to defend Putin. Why?
He's not a rocker chick
He's a Jew.
Chairman Mao (and Stalin) wasn't alive and in power last time I checked. But CIA is still there up and running.
As I said Russia are not the bad guys anymore, and guess what neither is China.
Currently all the worst communist regimens still in place in the world, terrible as may be locally, even combined do insignificant damage to the World compared to US.
As someone alive when the USSR was still around. FUCK YOU! Those assholes got what they deserved! It's not our fault that their system imploded because of a failed philosophy that was communism. It wasn't called an Iron Curtain for no reason too. And it's certainly not our responsibility to hand out welfare to that nation. At the time, we were sworn ideological enemies.
Now days, Russia is Russia. Not my friend, but not my enemy. Let bygones be bygones I always say. But this time, Russia is on its own to figure this out. They might even have a civil war. I wish them luck however they resolve this issue of oppression. As for Putin, he can wave his dick all he wants. Any and every move he makes it purely for political gain.
Life is not for the lazy.
You can see the reason in what we did after the fall of the Soviet Union. We kept our bases all over the world. Only two countries really won World War 2, but for the US that was one too many.
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