…who noticed that she is still out there defending communists:
When it is suggested that the Kremlin was involved in the assassination of journalists, including Putin critic Anna Politskaya, she shakes her head and tell Scarborough that the “rot started in Chechnya.” One reporter for Novoya Gazeta, a paper vanden Heuvel recently visited while in Moscow and holds up as an example of Russia’s free press, told Reuters that “prosecutors had tried to solve the case and were ordered to back off when the trail led to someone ‘quite high up in the ruling hierarchy.'” But when the deaths of journalist Anastasia Baburova and lawyer Stanislav Markelov are discussed, vanden Heuvel quickly assigns blame to “neo-Nazis,” though no arrests have been made in the case and many at Novoya Gazeta, where Baburova worked, suspect government involvement.
What people forget is the before the Soviet Union fell and the Venona files came out, intellectuals often spouted this nonsense, Kennedy, Biden et/al the worshiped senators/vp’s now where talking about working with or appeasing the Soviets. The press and the smart people hated Reagan for his willingness to stand up to Soviet Aggression. (At the time it was the one thing I agreed with him on.) After they came out they and the press conveniently forgot which side they had been on.
Expect a lot more of this stuff as these people are mainstreamed.
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