something else entirely. victims most of all been russians killed by foreigners, because of course, there was no gulag, there was no great tara, no great purge. stone was a standup guy. russia s history is pristine. anyone that says otherwise is obviously a degenerate. a monster. after the historian who heroically tracked down records and discovered that site, after he was locked up and charged randomly with pedophilia, did the same thing than the head of the local museum. glad effectively been the onside caretaker once it was discovered. he had also been vocal in his opposition to the russian government, coming in and digging up with bulldozers. he too, they did the same thing to them. they arrested him, charged with being a pedophile. in both cases, the charges were widely believed to be trumped up and completely false, but they were nevertheless trumpeted on russian state tv. and the association they re trying to make was clear.
pedophile. the russian government then announced plans to bring bulldozers into the site. they re gonna dig up the bodies and show that this wasn t a mass burial site of stalin s victims, it must of been something else entirely. victims most of all been russians killed by foreigners, because of course, there was no gulag, there was no great tara, no great purge. stone was a standup guy. russia s history is pristine. anyone that says otherwise is obviously a degenerate. a monster. after the historian who heroically tracked down records and discovered that site, after he was locked up and charged randomly with pedophilia, did the same thing than the head of the local museum. glad effectively been the onside caretaker once it was
that is a horrific abuse of its own. and has become one of the hallmarks of the modern authoritarianism not only, russia but especially in russia under vladimir putin. as i said, it s basically up and got his job in the late 1990s. i ve recently been reading about the great purge, the great terror and specifically putin s efforts now to erase evidence of it. to erase evidence of past russian, past soviet atrocities. it is amazing to me. it shouldn t to, me but it s amazing to me that the use false pedophilia charges against gulag historians for that. to justify bulldozing that memorial site. but that s what they did, and they ve done that repeatedly. it s an obvious and frequent enough political tactic in putin s russia, that, in 2016, not long after a bizarre 2016
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evidence of it, to erase evidence of past russia, past soviet atrocities and it is amazing to me, it shouldn t be, but it is amazing to me that they used false pedophilia charges against gulag historians for that to justify bulldozing that memorial site. but that s what they did. and they did that repeatedly. it s an obvious and frequent enough political tactic in putin s russia, that in 2016, not long after our bizarre 2016 presidential election, the new york times ran a feature on how this particular tactic kept coming up increasingly in putin s russia. you see the headline there. foes of russia say child pornography is planted to ruin them. the story of a veteran soviet dissident who had resettled in cambridge england had somebody hack in his community and put child pornographer images on his