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Once a KGB thug…
During the Cold War, many on the political left in Western countries looked through the repression of the Russian people. Today, the moral equivalence of Russia’s “useful idiots” is on the populist political right.
Once a former KGB thug, always a KGB thug is the truth of the not-so-strange death in a Siberian gulag of Russian opposition democracy leader Alexei Navalny.
State-sponsored political assassinations by Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime is a reminder that crushing dissent at home goes hand-in-hand with the military invasion abroad to conquer and crush democracy in Ukraine.
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