Srdjan,

No, I am not talking about KGB archives, I'm referring to military communiques. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a large number of records from the Defense Ministry and Party were declassified by the Russian government. Apparently, in the last few years, the Russian government has reimposed restrictions on access to those records. This is a fact and not an attempt to "recreate an arch-foe".

What the US classifies and declassifies has nothing to do with my beliefs about where Russia is heading. But don't you find it odd that the Russian government would restrict access to files that they had previously allowed? If the US did something like that all hell would break loose as the media would try to figure out what the government was hiding.

Something else to consider: In (and out) of Russia opponents to the government are being harrassed, jailed, and killed. Do you see that in the US? No. I suppose we have other uses of pollonium other than killing political dissidents with it. I suppose that the poisoning of the Ukrainian president had nothing to do with Russia?

History shows that Russia has a history of liberal reform followed by ruthless nationalism. This happened in the 1870's and after 1905 and it might be argued that this is happening now after the liberalization of the 1990s.

Srdjan, you must think me ill-informed and that you can tell me what the true Russia is. I noticed that you replied to someone on this thread that if they didn't know the Russian language that they missed out.

Well, Srdjan, guess what? I not only read, write, and speak Russian but I have over 30 semester hours (the equivalent to 2-3 complete semesters) in Russian history and culture. I love the Russian people and have many Russian friends but I'm not going to overlook where Russia is heading because of that.

Open your eyes. If you're a Russophile, as I am, you should be concerned where the current government is heading.


>>I was reading a book recently that described the fallacies of the Soviet response to the German invasion of 1941. What I found extraordinary was that in the afterward in the book the author said that he doubted that further insight could be gained because Putin had cut off most access to the Soviet archives.
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>>Russia is moving towards a nationalistic fascist state. It would not be the first time.
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>Based on what you have read about events that took place 60-70 years ago,(nothing to do with fascisam but anyway)
>or you are refering to Putin denying KGB archive books ?
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>Can you digg up for me some CIA archives on a short notice ? If you wanted to write book about US involvement
>in Colombia or Honduras for instance, (just tiny example). How far would they let you digg ?
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>Constantly blaming Russia is a cheap bid/drift by your policy makers to recreate it as arch-foe that once it used to be,
>whereas this is no longer truth for quiet a bit of time. Russia does things to protect their interests, but their interest
>is no longer changing social orders, enslaving other nations etc. They now care mostly about their own money/resources,
>just like everybody else. Unlike most of world countries, they have much more of a power to protect it.
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>This is perhaps sore point that additionally fuels this bad bad drift.