Search: United States,USSR (4 materials)

Republic of Georgia Shows Trump & His Fans Depressingly Normal

... entirely convinced…[these people] that they were full partners alongside the rest” of the Russian Empire and the USSR, and Georgia‘s current President, Mikheil Saakashvili, “took a holy oath” as part of his presidential inauguration ... ... nations today, many of the dynamics still resemble those of Russian/Soviet intranational politics; conversely, the South of the United States experimented with secession as a unit from 1861-1865 and tried to form its own nation, an experiment which failed ...

12.10.2016

Trump, Putin, Russia, DNC/Clinton Hack, & WikiLeaks: “There's Something Going on” with Election 2016 & It's Cyberwarfare & Maybe Worse: UPDATED 8/15

... driving this project way Bayrock, was a company run by Tevfik Arif, a man who in the Soviet-era was an economic official for the USSR. His point man for the deal, Felix Sater, was a convicted Russian mobster; financing involved money from an Iceland firm ... ... “a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond” and that “I have always felt that Russia and the United States should be able to work well with each other towards defeating terrorism and restoring world peace, not to mention ...

16.08.2016

Regime change diplomacy. Washington and Russian “adventurism” in Brazil

... electoral law specialist Torquato Jardim on his appointment as Temer's new Transparency Minister. It went on the official government website last Tuesday (June 14th) and was amped up by major online and print media throughout Brazil, but not in the United States. Meanwhile, three key ministers in Temer's government have resigned from their posts having been linked to bribery and corruption allegations stemming from the Petrobras and Lava Jato scandals that involve influence peddling, corruption ...

20.06.2016

Hooray for Hollywood!

... of state security) and their puppet justice minister. Holding to the tradition of USSR-style “historical revisionism,” to this day the Kremlin has never acknowledged that Fisher was a spy on behalf of the Soviet Union operating in the United States. It is known, however, that Fisher was a Soviet citizen. A heavy smoker, he died of lung cancer in 1971. Ironically, he was later honored by the USSR in 1990 when a postage stamp featuring his portrait was published using the name Рудольф Иванович Абель. Probably his best work for the Soviet Union was done not as a spy, but during World War II when Fisher trained radio operators ...

04.11.2015

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