Looking more and more like it to me....
2006-10-08 13:11:34 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Why are so many people saying Bush is worse than this guy? Do they not realize what Putin's doing? He's marching them straight back towards a closed, Soviet-style society. Taking over private corporations, exerting more and more control over the media, gestapo style killings of dissenters.
For Christ's sake, the reason I asked this just now was because an outspoken critic of his, one whose anti-Putin book wasn't even published in Russia, was shot dead in cold blood. This also happened to happen on his birthday. Nice present.
2006-10-08 13:49:44 · update #1
Hey, Bud, that guy scares me.
2006-10-08 13:13:46 · answer #1 · answered by Babs 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't know. You can bet the conservatives in Russia want to go back to the old Soviet Union...how's that for irony...conservatives who want communism!?! But of course what they want is the security of life they enjoyed under communism. And you can hardly blame them.
And we haven't helped a lick. Instead of helping Putin with Chechen terrorism, we are constantly harping on him for waging war on people who kidnap and murder school children. And then of course we want Putin to support our war on terrorism. Go figure.
And then Bush decides not to let Russian in the WTO?? What the heck are we thinking?? Russia has enormous oil and mineral wealth that we should be finding ways to develop for and with them. The best way to save democracy in Russia is to employ Russians and get their economy up and running.
Russia and the US could be working together to knock the snot of our Islamic terror, but we can't do it by alienating the Russians and Putin every chance we get.
2006-10-08 14:02:29 · answer #2 · answered by KERMIT M 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I thought that honor went to Bush.
Besides, it was the USA that insured his ascent to power.
It's terrible about the journalist.
None of this would have happened if the west had allowed the Russians to make their own transition instead of ramming capitalism down their throats and helping a former KGB officer to power. Now it is becoming a nation of criminals.
2006-10-08 13:12:25 · answer #3 · answered by The Gadfly 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
No, the next Hitler would be George Bush.
2006-10-08 13:25:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
I'd put Bush there before Putin.
2006-10-08 13:13:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
Hear about his elections where people running against him were (i think) disappearing or dieing?
Scary
2006-10-08 13:24:08 · answer #6 · answered by DyrtByrd 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Stalin maybe...
2006-10-08 13:12:46 · answer #7 · answered by CHEVICK_1776 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, I'd say Bush.
2006-10-08 13:12:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋