Alexander Litvinenko on the Murder of Anna Politkovskaya
In the video footage below, Alexander Litvinenko speaks at The Frontline Club regarding the murder of his friend and fellow dissident author Anna Politkovskaya:
Anna Politkovskaya was brutally assassinated on October 7th, 2006, Vladimir Putin's 54th birthday.
| In the last paragraph
of Politkovskaya’s book, she stated: “All we hear from the outside
world is ‘al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda,’ a wretched mantra for shuffling
off responsibility for all the bloody tragedies yet to come, a primitive
chant with which to lull a society desiring nothing more than to be lulled
back to sleep.” And yes, the West is asleep and wishes to remain
asleep. America accepts, as a matter of convenience, the rise of KGB President
Putin. “We cannot just sit back and watch political winter close
in on Russia for several more decades,” she warned. The problem is
not simply Russia’s. An emerging coalition of countries, secretly
led by Russia for purposes of destructive warfare, is a global problem.
But the West has always believed the Kremlin lies. It believed Stalin’s
lies. It believed Brezhnev’s lies. It believed Gorbachev’s lies.
And Putin knows we will believe his lies. We say to ourselves that Russia
is unimportant because Russia is poor. No, my friends, Russia is dangerous
because Russia’s rulers have nuclear weapons and they have mastered
the criminal underworld. The Kremlin can neutralize the security services
of any country through blackmail and murder. It can sabotage the most
powerful economy through false flag terrorism. It may eventually wage
nuclear war without regard to economic or environmental consequences.
The KGB’s intellectual forebears regarded capitalist civilization
with contempt. Let it burn. Such were the teaching of Marx, Engels, Lenin
and many American university professors.
The death of Politkovskaya is openly acknowledged in Russia as a political assassination. As such, it sends a chill through those who know the truth. Who will dare to warn the West in yet another book? Who would give their life in an appeal to the apathetic sneers of the indifferent? Such is the tragedy of Anna Politkovskaya. - From "The Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya" by J.R. Nyquist, 10/20/06 |