by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with “The Russian Army stands for a moral defence of the country which [Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev] could no longer accept, either from Gorbachev or from Yeltsin. He said in his suicide note ‘I have earned the right to step out of my life’.   Now that is not possible except from a Russian […]

by Editor - Thursday, August 29th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with When is a politician’s state of being in two minds a sign of his trying to balance the views of competing constituencies or a sign of his indecisiveness, vacillation, weakness? Since the start of the Kursk invasion on August 6, the argument in Moscow over what happened before and followed in […]

by Editor - Tuesday, August 27th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Remember the old adage — sticks and stones will break  my bones but words will never harm me. In the war by the US and its Anglo-European allies to destroy Russia since 1945, the propaganda war has been lost by the Russians many times over. That war is still being lost. […]

by Editor - Monday, August 26th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Wherever you are, once you are in war, free speech doesn’t exist any longer. Truth telling is replaced by propaganda narratives enforced by censors and security services. Between the truth and the propaganda there is that burst of 280 characters – 40 to 70 words – which was first invented in […]

by Editor - Monday, August 26th, 2024
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On August 24, 1991, Marshal Sergei Fyodorovich Akhromeyev committed suicide. He had returned from his holiday at Sochi responding to the attempted removal of Mikhail Gorbachev from power. According to the reports of the time, he hanged himself in his Kremlin office, leaving behind a note. One version of what it said was: “I cannot […]

by Editor - Saturday, August 24th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The slogan on the 1960 Soviet poster by Kovalev and Godgold announces that to build your strength for work, the sun, air and water are necessary. That’s what we need in August.   For clear head, a smile on your face, and bulging muscles by September, read the book before the […]

by Editor - Thursday, August 1st, 2024
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