Once again the Russian newspaper Gazeta does what many of us thought couldn’t happen in the land of Putin: it excoriates the Kremlin leadership – not only for its false anti-Americanism, but for letting the nation’s military go to hell in a hand basket while feeding the population a steady diet of jingoistic bromides.
Pointing out that it was the Soviets who first called America the ‘evil empire,’ For Gazeta, Yevgeniy Trifonov writes in part:
“Everything is blamed on America. First, Americans robbed us of Alaska. Then they didn’t allow us to ‘catch up’ and moreover, they ‘surpassed’ us and threatened us with atomic bombs and attacked our friends – Vietnam, Cuba, Iraq. The evil empire during Soviet times, it nurtured consumerism and other foreign evils and then completely broke up the Soviet Union. And now by inciting ‘orange revolutions,’ it’s even displacing Russia from the former Soviet republics.”
“Like all anti-Westernism, the anti-Americanism of the current authorities is laughable and pathetic. Their foreign exchange is kept in the United States, their children are taught in England and they buy villas in France and Spain. … only the simple minded now take a military confrontation with the United States seriously. This national idea is intended specifically for the kind of ‘people’ that those at the top, evidently, consider us to be.”
By Yevgeniy Trifonov
Translated By Yekaterina Blinova
March 31, 2009
Russia – Gazeta – Original Article (Russian)
Russian authorities consistently throw fuel on the fire of the anti-American sentiments of the people. The United States, particularly in a time of crisis, is perfectly suited to the role of the chief global villain.Everything is blamed on America. First, Americans robbed us of Alaska. Then they didn’t allow us to “catch up” and moreover, they “surpassed” us and threatened us with atomic bombs and attacked our friends – Vietnam, Cuba, Iraq. The evil empire during Soviet times, it nurtured consumerism and other foreign evils and then completely broke up the Soviet Union. And now by inciting “orange revolutions,” it’s even displacing Russia from the former Soviet republics. And the global [financial] crisis, according to [first deputy chief of staff to President Medvedev] Vladislav Surkov, is a “wave of impoverishment coming from the West.” Even the protests in Primorye are organized by Americans; at least, that’s what Duma Members Belokonev and Ivanov say. Former Murmansk Governor Yury Yevdokimov, it turns out, wanted to sell his province to the United States. All in all, “we are surrounded on all sides by evil vipers. Comrades, we are in the middle of a ring of fire!”
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