Russia shuts down human rights group Sakharov Center ( www.aljazeera.com )

Blake , 11 months ago

Haven’t heard about him before so looked him up, found a couple of interesting quotes about the Soviet Union.

“At first I thought, despite everything that I saw with my own eyes, that the Soviet State was a breakthrough into the future, a kind of prototype for all countries". Then he came, in his words, to “the theory of symmetry: all governments and regimes to a first approximation are bad, all peoples are oppressed, and all are threatened by common dangers.”

Pretty based stuff.

“Yet our state is similar to a cancer cell – with its messianism and expansionism, its totalitarian suppression of dissent, the authoritarian structure of power, with a total absence of public control in the most important decisions in domestic and foreign policy, a closed society that does not inform its citizens of anything substantial, closed to the outside world, without freedom of travel or the exchange of information."

Sounds familiar.

Unfortunately, he was a “free market” advocate and, from the sounds of it, a tool of the capitalist western powers, which is a shame.