The myth about “Stalin engineering famines” was created by a Nazi, btw. https://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc9912/lies.htm
“War hysteria against Chechnya” was actually not against Chechnya but against another attempt to destroy Russia by proxy terrorism. Navalny, just so you know, is practically Russian Trump. It is such a huge shame that a Russian person seeks Washington and CIA protection and wishes such protection for Ukraine… be careful what you wish for. I can see why Schiff claims that they have “opposite values” with Russia. Obviously. About Navalny, Kasparov and Nemtsov, the “opposition”: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/01/09/nava-j09.html?fbclid=IwAR1Hr5Pzuu4TpYMp_1Q9ZmvfI0yqXUCfKRLinIauMfDrzl-0H7ozRF7iBC0
“It is not despite, but because, of his involvement with both the liberals and the far right that Navalny has become an attractive political figure to both elements within the Kremlin who are planning for the “post-Putin” period, and US imperialism. He is viewed as the perfect candidate to create an alliance between fascists and oligarchs, and sections of the upper-middle class, for a right-wing movement against Putin, which would be aimed at installing a pro-US puppet regime.
The campaign that Navalny has launched for the 2018 presidential elections has been massive in scale. Under conditions where literally no party or candidate even pretends to be campaigning, he has set up “campaign headquarters” in dozens of cities, including in Siberia and the Russian Far East. On his blog, he publishes commentaries and well-produced videos on an almost daily basis. Dozens of articles are published to support and promote him in the Western media. There is little question that a massive operation to promote Navalny in Russia and internationally is underway.
Yet there is a stark disjuncture between the overwhelming support that he receives from Western, and especially US, media and his near total lack of popularity in Russia itself. Despite massive media coverage in the West, and in Russian pro-opposition media, a recent poll indicated that only 2 percent of the electorate would vote for him.
There is good reason for this hostility. Navalny is not a democrat or a liberal, but a disgruntled entrepreneur and stockholder with distinct fascist leanings. On many levels, he represents the accumulated political filth that has burst to the surface in Russia after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.
Against the backdrop of this cataclysmic restructuring of society, the young Navalny developed a fascistic, social-Darwinist hatred of the working class. In a later interview, he stated, “I wanted a market economy in the most wicked form — the strongest survive, the rest are simply superfluous (ne nuzhny).”
He started working on the stock market and in a real estate company. But he did not make it. Navalny later recalled: “To market fundamentalists like me, it seemed like they would all become millionaires. Everybody thought that if we were smart, we would soon become rich … but then it suddenly became apparent that the rich are those that are somehow connected to the government.”
While still working on the stock market, he aligned himself with the liberal pro-market party “Yabloko” (The Apple), which has been headed by various figures, most notably Boris Nemtsov and Garry Kasparov, who have been notorious for their long-standing relations with Washington’s State Department and the CIA.”
