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11.09.04, 16:47
Rosyjska ??? Szesciu z tych "siedmiu wspanialych" to zydzi - Berezowsky bez
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Six out of the seven are Jews.
By the way, Berezovsky boasts that he caused the war in Chechnya,
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The Oligarchs Or: How the Virgin became a Whore
This is a TV series about Russia. But it could have been about Israel.
Or about the United States. It is entitled “The Oligarchs” and is now being
screened on Israeli television.
Some of its episodes are simply unbelievable – or would have been, if
they had not come straight from the horses’ mouths: the heroes of the story,
who gleefully boast about their despicable exploits. The series was produced
by Israeli immigrants from Russia.
The “oligarchs” are a tiny group of entrepreneurs who exploited the
disintegration of the Soviet system to loot the treasures of the state and to
amass plunder amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars. In order to
safeguard the perpetuation of their business, they took control of the state.
Six out of the seven are Jews.
In popular parlance they are called “oligarchs” – from the Greek word
meaning “rule of the few”.
In the first years of post-Soviet Russian capitalism they were the bold
and nimble ones who knew how to exploit the economic anarchy in order to
acquire enormous possessions for a hundredth or a thousandth of their value:
oil, natural gas, nickel and other minerals. They used every possible trick,
including cheating, bribery and murder. Every one of them had a small private
army. In the course of the series they are proud to tell in great detail how
they did it.
But the most intriguing part of the series recounts the way they took
control of the political apparatus. After a period of fighting each other,
they decided that it would be more profitable for them to cooperate in order
to take over the state.
At the time, President Boris Yeltsin was in a steep decline. On the eve
of the new elections for the presidency, his rating in public opinion polls
stood at 4%. He was an alcoholic with a severe heart disease, working about
two hours a day. The state was, in practice, ruled by his bodyguard and his
daughter; corruption was the order of the day.
The oligarchs decided to take power through him. They had almost
unlimited funds, control of all TV channels and most of the other media. They
put all these at the disposal of Yeltsin’s reelection campaign, denying his
opponents even one minute of TV time and pouring huge sums of money into the
effort. (The series omits an interesting detail: they secretly brought over
the most outstanding American election experts and copywriters, who applied
methods previously unknown in Russia.)
The campaign bore fruit: Yeltsin was indeed reelected. On the very same
day he had another heart attack and spent the rest of his term in hospital.
In practice, the oligarchs ruled Russia. One of them, Boris Berezovsky,
appointed himself Prime Minister. There was a minor scandal when it became
known that he (like most of the oligarchs) had acquired Israeli citizenship,
but he gave up his Israeli passport and everything was in order again.
By the way, Berezovsky boasts that he caused the war in Chechnya, in
which tens of thousands have been killed and a whole country devastated. He
was interested in the mineral resources and a prospective pipeline there. In
order to achieve this he put an end to the peace agreement that gave the
country some kind of independence. The oligarchs dismissed and destroyed
Alexander Lebed, the popular general who engineered the agreement, and the
war has been going on since then.
In the end, there was a reaction: Vladimir Putin, the taciturn and
tough ex-KGB operative, assumed power, took control of the media, put one of
the oligarchs (Mikhail Khodorkovsky) in prison, caused the others to flee
(Berezovsky is in England, Vladimir Gusinsky is in Israel, another, Mikhail
Chernoy, is assumed to be hiding here.)
Since all the exploits of the oligarchs occurred in public, there is a
danger that the affair might cause an increase in anti-Semitism in Russia.
Indeed, the anti-Semites argue that these doings confirm the “Protocols of
the Elders of Zion”, a document fabricated by the Russian secret police a
century ago, purporting to reveal a Jewish conspiracy to control the world.
In Israel, too, talk about “Money and Power” is now in vogue. Ariel Sharon
and one of his two sons have been suspected of accepting bribes from a real
estate magnate. An indictment was blocked by the new Attorney General who
happened to be appointed by the Sharon government at the height of the
affair. Another investigation into Sharon and his sons is still pending. It
concerns millions of dollars that reached his election coffers by roundabout
routes, crossing three continents.
Shimon Peres’ connections with multi-millionaires are well-known, as are
the huge sums poured out by American Jewish multi-millionaires for extreme
right-wing causes in Israel. One of the Russian oligarchs is the part-owner
of the second biggest Israeli newspaper.
A political scandal concerning the Israeli Minister for Infrastructure
has mushroomed into an affair involving giant multi-national corporations
competing for contracts for supplying natural gas to the Israeli Electricity
Company, an affair of billions in which underworld figures, politicians and
private investigators play their parts. This disclosure has made it clear to
Israelis that here, too, politicians of the highest rank have long ago been
acting as mercenaries for powerful financial interests.
These facts must alarm everybody who cares about democracy . Oligarchy
and democracy are incompatible. As a Russian commentator in the TV series
said about the new Russian democracy: “They have turned a virgin into a
whore.”
