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Flashback The "Wild 90s" in Russia, as reflected in people's memory, part 1


Stanislav.org
Fri, 20 Nov 2015 00:00 UTC
Clinton and Yeltsin 1995
© Alexander Zemlianichenko, Associated PressU.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin, May 10, 1995 in Moscow's Kremlin Hall of Facets
I previously published a translation of an article For Russia 90's Were Worse Than WWII, which tells the extent of the destruction caused to Russian industry and science in the course of the 90's.

That was the time, when the West's darling Yeltsin was in power, and when every parliamentary, every minister had an American "advisor" attached to him or her.

Let us remember that in October-November 1993, the Russian Parliament tried to pass an impeachment of Yeltsin, trying to save the country in a democratic way. The response back then, authorised by Clinton, was to bring tanks into the streets of Moscow, open fire at the Parliament building and kill almost 2000 people, who came to defend the young democracy from APC machine guns. That was effectively a coup d'etat, which kept Yeltsin in power and descended Russia into a dark stretch of destruction of the country and its people, which lasted until 2000, when Yeltsin released his American-backed grip, and Putin started slowly, but surely, save the county.

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Flashback What was so 'wild' about 1990s Russia?

Ksenia Zubacheva
Russia Beyond
Sun, 09 Feb 2020 19:47 UTC
Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev
© Getty Images"Boris Yeltsin" and "Mikhail Gorbachev"
From chaos and crime to freedom and opportunity - this period in Russian history was sort of a roller coaster ride - one we commonly refer to as the "wild 90s".

Do you remember a time before iPhones and social media? In 90s Russia, the period of my childhood, we used to find joy in other things (like a new Barbie, a handheld Tetris game, or bubble gum) and connected with friends in real life, not through WhatsApp or Telegram.

1991-1999 was an exciting period to grow up in. Russians witnessed many things: the 1991 coup attempt, the collapse of the USSR, and the new Constitution of 1993, opening the door to democratic freedoms, the first free elections, the privatization of state assets, two wars in Chechnya, the fall (and rise, and fall again) of the ruble - the list goes on! In the collective Russian consciousness, this period settled as "the wild 90s" (лихие девяностые). Let's take a closer look.

Comment: See also: The former Republics of the Soviet Union all went through a 90s period, some more, some less, while life in Western Europe was easier. With the advent of an economic crisis, Western Europe will be hugely disadvantaged, because many do not have a living memory of what hard times are and how to live through them. A difference between Russia in the 90s and the world of today might be the increased digital control, but how will that work if society collapses to a degree not seen in recent times?

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Eugenics and the awakening of sleeping monsters

Matthew Ehret
The Canadian Patriot
Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00 UTC
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© The Socjourn/organism.earth/KJNCharles Darwin • Sir Julian Huxley
In this presentation delivered to the Day 6 proceedings of the Coronavirus Grand Jury hearing organized by Dr. Reiner Fullmich and his team of international lawyers, Canadian Patriot Review Editor-in-Chief Matthew Ehret was asked to deliver remarks elucidating the origins of the quasi-science of eugenics, and its role in mis-shaping the 20th century.

This exercise required a brief overview:
1) how the Malthusian science of population control as it arose in response to the spread of republican concepts of humanity and freedom in the late 18th century,

2) how Charles Darwin himself (under the control of Thomas Huxley) took his ideas directly from Malthus' Essay on Population, and

3) how this in turn expressed itself in Francis Galton's "new science" of eugenics.
It may be hard to believe but Galton himself had stated in 1904 that his new science (a repackaged Malthusianism) was always designed to be a new macro religion shaping the worldview of a new post-Christian managerial elite:
"[Eugenics] must be introduced into the national conscience, like a new religion. It has, indeed, strong claims to become an orthodox religious, tenet of the future, for eugenics co-operate with the workings of nature by securing that humanity shall be represented by the fittest races.... I see no impossibility in Eugenics becoming a religious dogma among mankind."
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Europeans may have been mummifying their dead as far back as 8,000 years ago, oldest evidence of practice ever discovered

Michelle Starr
Science Alert
Fri, 04 Mar 2022 12:00 UTC
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Figure 7. Arapouco 1962, skeleton unknown 3 shares the basic characteristics of all the burials at the site but was placed in a hyperflexed position which in combination with the lack of movement of the bones in the feature suggests the body was prepared and desiccated before burial.
Archaeologists may have just uncovered evidence for the oldest known practice of mummification.

Human remains interred 8,000 years ago in the Sado Valley in Portugal, during the Mesolithic, appear to have been deliberately treated for mummification prior to burial. This is the first evidence for Mesolithic mummification in Europe.

It's also possibly the oldest in the world. Previously, the earliest evidence we had for deliberate mummification was dated to 7,000 years ago, to the Chinchorro mummies found in the Atacama desert in Chile.

In Egypt, famous for its ancient burial customs, the earliest evidence we have for deliberate mummification is from 5,600 years ago.

"Our study combines archaeothanatological analysis with insights from experimental taphonomic research, thus adding a new dimension to our understanding of Mesolithic mortuary practices," wrote a team of of researchers led by archaeologist Rita Peyroteo-Stjerna of Uppsala University in Sweden.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: MindMatters: The Holy Grail, Comets, Earth Changes and Randall Carlson



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The Harvard boys do Russia

Janine R. Wedel
The Nation
Thu, 14 May 1998 04:09 UTC
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© Getty ImagesFirst Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais (L)
First Architect of Economic Reform Yegor Gaidar (R)
December 1991
After seven years of economic "reform" financed by billions of dollars in U.S. and other Western aid, subsidized loans and rescheduled debt, the majority of Russian people find themselves worse off economically. The privatization drive that was supposed to reap the fruits of the free market instead helped to create a system of tycoon capitalism run for the benefit of a corrupt political oligarchy that has appropriated hundreds of millions of dollars of Western aid and plundered Russia's wealth.

The architect of privatization was former First Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais, a darling of the U.S. and Western financial establishments. Chubais's drastic and corrupt stewardship made him extremely unpopular. According to The New York Times, he "may be the most despised man in Russia."

Essential to the implementation of Chubais's policies was the enthusiastic support of the Clinton Administration and its key representative for economic assistance in Moscow, the Harvard Institute for International Development. Using the prestige of Harvard's name and connections in the Administration, H.I.I.D. officials acquired virtual carte blanche over the U.S. economic aid program to Russia, with minimal oversight by the government agencies involved. With this access and their close alliance with Chubais and his circle, they allegedly profited on the side. Yet few Americans are aware of H.I.I.D.'s role in Russian privatization, and its suspected misuse of taxpayers' funds.
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The consequences of humiliating Russia

Michael Brenner
Consortium News
Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00 UTC
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© Tass/Kremlin.ru/CC BY 4.0/Wikimedia CommonsDec. 31, 1999: Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin leaving Kremlin the day he resigned
Vladimir Putin • Aleksandr Voloshin
The Mafia is not known for its creative use of language beyond terms like "hitman," "go to the mattresses," "living with the fishes" and suchlike. There are, though, a few pithy sayings that carry enduring wisdom. One concerns honor and revenge:
"If you are going to humiliate someone publicly in a really crass manner, make sure that he doesn't survive to take his inevitable revenge."
Violate it at your peril.

That enduring truth has been demonstrated by Russia's actions in the Ukraine which, to a great extent, are the culmination of the numerous humiliations that the West, under American instigation, has inflicted on Russia's rulers and the country as a whole over the past 30 years.

They have been treated as a sinner sentenced to accept the role of a penitent who, clad in sackcloth, marked with ashes, is expected to appear among the nations with head bowed forever. No right to have its own interests, its own security concerns or even its own opinions.

Few in the West questioned the viability of such a prescription for a country of 160 million, territorially the biggest in the world, possessing vast resources of critical value to other industrial nations, technologically sophisticated and custodian of 3,000 + nuclear weapons. No mafia don would have been that obtuse. But our rulers are cut from a different cloth even if their strut and conceit often matches that of the capos.
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Wild grain consumption occurred in Ancient Europe before the arrival of agriculture

Bruce Bowers
Science News
Tue, 01 Feb 2022 18:37 UTC
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© Emanuela CristianiFood deposits on the teeth (one shown) of ancient people who inhabited what’s now Serbia and Romania contributed to new evidence that hunter-gatherers ate wild cereals for several thousand years before crop cultivation reached Europe.
People living along southeastern Europe's Danube River around 11,500 years ago never planted a crop but still laid the foundation for the rise of farming in that region some 3,000 years later, a new study finds.

Hunter-gatherers living in this part of Europe avidly gathered and ate wild cereal grains for several millennia before migrants from southwest Asia introduced the cultivation of domesticated cereals and other plants, say archaeologist Emanuela Cristiani of Sapienza University of Rome and her colleagues. A well-established taste for wild cereals among hunter-gatherers of the central Balkan Peninsula, near what's now Turkey, smoothed the way for farming to take root in Europe, the scientists conclude January 21 in eLife.

Previous chemical studies of human bones from Balkan sites indicated that ancient hunter-gatherers had eaten a lot of animal protein, mainly fish. Plant remains have not preserved well at those sites, leaving uncertain any role for grains on the menu of people who lived there.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: MindMatters: The Holy Grail, Comets, Earth Changes and Randall Carlson

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Best of the Web: Russia declares war on the Straussians

Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network
Tue, 01 Mar 2022 21:43 UTC
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Russia is not waging war on the Ukrainian people, but on a small group of people within the US power that has transformed Ukraine without its knowledge, the Straussians. It formed half a century ago and has already committed an incredible amount of crimes in Latin America and the Middle East without the knowledge of the United States. This is their story.

At dawn on February 24, Russian forces entered Ukraine en masse. According to President Vladimir Putin, speaking on television at the time, this special operation was the beginning of his country's response to "those who aspire to world domination" and who are advancing Nato's infrastructure to his country's doorstep. During this long speech, he summarized how NATO destroyed Yugoslavia without the authorization of the United Nations Security Council, even bombing Belgrade in 1999. Then he perused the destruction of the United States in the Middle East, in Iraq, Libya and Syria. Only after this lengthy presentation did he announce that he had sent his troops to Ukraine with the dual mission of destroying the Nato-linked armed forces and ending the Nato armed neo-Nazi groups.
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Fyodor Lukyanov: The end of an era

Fyodor Lukyanov
RT
Tue, 01 Mar 2022 08:43 UTC
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© Sputnik/Konstantin MichalczewskiThe Russian president told his Turkish counterpart that nationalists use civilians as human shields
Russia's military intervention in Ukraine has spelled the end of an epoch in the state of global affairs after President Vladimir Putin launched the action last week. Its impact will be felt for years to come, but Moscow has positioned itself to "become an agent of cardinal change for the whole world."

The Russian Armed Forces' operation in Ukraine marks the end of an era. It began with the fall of the Soviet Union and its dissolution in 1991, when a fairly stable bipolar structure was overturned by what eventually came to be known as the 'Liberal World Order'. This paved the way for the US and its allies to play a dominant role in international politics centered around universalist ideology.

The crisis manifested itself long ago, although there was no significant resistance from major powers who were left unsatisfied with their position in the new political playing field. In fact, for quite a long time (at least a decade and a half), there had been practically no opposition at all. Non-Western countries, namely China and Russia, made efforts to integrate into the hierarchy. Beijing managed not only to do this, but also made the most of the situation to gain a foothold as a dominant player. Moscow, however, came out much worse and took longer to adjust to this new world order and cement a respectable place within its ranks.
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Flashback Best of the Web: To Catch a Nazi: The Secret History of Ukraine's Extensive Nazi Network, And How The US Government Gave Them Safe Harbor

Joe Conason
The Village Voice
Tue, 11 Feb 1986 00:00 UTC
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"SUBJECT D" IS THE LABEL MOST RECENTLY used by the federal government to de­scribe a certain high-ranking Nazi collab­orator, an alleged war criminal whose co­operation with the Central Intelligence Agency allowed him to enter this country in 1949 and later become a U.S. citizen. Subject D's history was supposed to remain hidden; indeed, he felt so secure that his telephone number is listed under his real name. Now, after nearly 40 years, his secret is out.

Last June, the General Accounting Of­fice (GAO) completed a three-year inves­tigation of the illegal postwar immigra­tion of Nazis and Nazi collaborators, and of the secret assistance they allegedly re­ceived from U.S. intelligence agencies. This sensitive federal study was ordered by the House Judiciary Committee to supplement a 1978 review of accusations that federal agencies obstructed the pros­ecution of alleged Nazi war criminals.

After reviewing voluminous files and conducting many interviews, the GAO found "no evidence of any U.S. agency program to aid Nazis or Axis collabora­tors to immigrate to the United States." But among the 114 cases it reviewed — ­dealing with a small fraction of the sus­pected war criminals — the GAO did dis­cover five cases of Nazis or collaborators "with undesirable or questionable backgrounds who received some individual as­sistance in their U.S. immigrations." Al­though the 40-page report said that three of them were already dead, it named no names, or even nationalities, and referred to the five only as Subjects A through E. Much of the information about them and their activities remains classified. In two cases, the assisted individuals were pro­tected by their intelligence contacts from authorities seeking to enforce immigra­tion laws that prohibit the entry of war criminals and other persecutors.

The authors of the GAO report seem eager to justify the actions of the govern­ment, and regardless of bias, their effort hardly represents a comprehensive ex­amination of this historic problem. Yet despite its shortcomings, the report is a landmark — an official admission that Nazis and Nazi collaborators were assist­ed in entering the United States by the CIA.

The Voice has learned that the collaborator discussed in the GAO report as "Subject D" is a prominent Ukrainian nationalist.

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