Zbigniew Brzeziński: "Moskiewski Mussolini"

20.09.04, 16:23
komentarz Zbigniewa Brzezińskiego z The Wall Street Journal:

"MOSCOW'S MUSSOLINI"
In the name of a war against terrorism the U.S. may also ignore Mr. Putin's
intensifying efforts to encourage manipulated elections in Ukraine....whom
the Bush NSC has so studiously ignored while naïvely courting Mr.Putin.

COMMENTARY: by Zbigniew Brzezinski
The Wall Street Journal, New York, New York
Monday, September 20, 2004, Page A20

Thou art so pitiful,
Poor, and so sorrowful,
Yet of great treasure full,
Mighty, all-powerful,
Russia, my Mother!

Citing these stirring words of the poet Nekrasov, Vladimir I. Lenin, the new
dictator of Russia, published on March 12, 1918, his reasons for moving
Russia's seat of government from St. Petersburg (Petrograd) to Moscow.
Amid the chaos, confusion, and violence of those revolutionary days, Lenin,
having just five days earlier entrenched himself in the Kremlin, proclaimed:

"Russia will become mighty and abundant if she abandons all dejection and
all phrase-making, if, with clenched teeth, she musters all her forces and
strains every nerve and muscle. . . . work with might and main to establish
discipline and self-discipline, consolidate everywhere organization, order,
efficiency, and the harmonious co-operation of all the forces of the people,
introduce comprehensive accounting of and control over production and
distribution
    • stary.prochazka Zbigniew Brzeziński: "Moskiewski Mussolini" c.d. 20.09.04, 16:24
      Moreover, the Bush administration should wake up to the fact that what
      happens in Russia bears directly on what may also happen in the space of the
      former Soviet Union. Today, many in the newly independent post-Soviet states
      fear that in the name of a war against terrorism the U.S. may also ignore
      Mr. Putin's intensifying efforts to encourage manipulated elections in
      Ukraine, to promote separatism in Georgia (while fiercely crushing the
      Chechens for seeking it), and to isolate Central Asia from the international
      economy. The fact is that prospects for democracy within Russia are
      interconnected both with the existence of national pluralism within the
      space of the former Soviet Union and with the spread of political pluralism
      within Russia itself.

      There is a basic lesson for America in all this: For democracy to thrive in
      Russia, its neighbors must be truly secure, the rights of non-Russian
      minorities must not be forgotten, and Russian democrats must not be ignored.
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      Mr. Brzezinski, national security adviser to President Carter, is the
      author, most recently, of "The Choice: Global Domination or Global
      Leadership" (Basic Books, 2004).
      • stary.prochazka Mocno powiedziane 20.09.04, 16:29
        "Moscow is the home of a parasitic political elite that identifies the
        interests of Russia with its own interests"
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