Those stalwart defenders of mother Russia, the communists of St. Petersburg and Leningrad, are at it again. In the past, they’ve called for the arrest of James Cameron for stealing the story of Avatar from Soviet science fiction writers, they have demanded that the Russian Orthodox Church canonize Joseph Stalin, and they’ve complained about the way the KGB was depicted in James Bond films and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
This time their target is what they claim to be a U.S.-capitalist conspiracy regarding the Olympic Games and specifically, figure skating and the defeat of Evgeny Plushenko at the hands of American Evan Lysacek.
Hold on to your Cold War-era hats. Speaking for the Communists of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region and the Central Committee of the Communists of Russia, Duma member Sergei Malinkovich is quoted by Ukraine’s Wek newspaper as saying in part:
For me it’s obvious that there’s a dirty political game going on in Vancouver. Puppet judges ignored the Russian figure skater’s brilliant performance and his cosmic leap, and let the dark American Lysaceka win. Clad all in black, his boring moves were suspiciously reminiscent of the latest generation of android. … All who are versed in global politics know that Canada has never had real sovereignty, that it’s a colony of the United States and that all of its judges are under the thumb of the White House. An exponential humiliation of Russia – this was the supreme task of the global capital-funded Olympic Games in Vancouver.”
The big question that arises is whether we should continue our country’s participation in these Western farces, where all the prizes are awarded in advance and the judges aren’t guided by objective criteria, but by instructions from the Pentagon. … we must consider whether it’s advisable to invite a number of Western countries to the Sochi Olympics. Without the Americans, the Sochi air will be cleaner!
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