tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post5823023087480862049..comments2023-10-06T10:10:06.982-04:00Comments on La Russophobe: You tell 'em, Garry: Kasparov, Touring Canada, Says Russia is PatheticLa Russophobehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05672264388217953086noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-23620554134798127472007-06-22T14:03:00.000-04:002007-06-22T14:03:00.000-04:00More up to date estimates (sterile statistics - ot...More up to date estimates (sterile statistics - otherwise known as unpleasant facts) are available from the <A HREF="http://www.who.int/whosis/database/core/core_select_process.cfm" REL="nofollow">World Health Organization</A>. The 2005 life expectancy for males is 59.0 years.<BR/><BR/>The word "hypocrite" has a specific definition. What you are accusing LR of being is dishonest not hypocritical and the dishonest charge is not right either. Many nations with far less troubling life spans have programs like 'baby bonuses' to deal with demographic problems and many of them have failed. If and when these programs work they will become relevant. <BR/><BR/>The idea of attracting people back to Russia who have left might be more realistic if the nation was not in free fall to failed state status while informing the world that democracy is not an important issue for Russians. Even if Russia's birth and repatriation rates were great the low life expectancy would still be disturbing to someone who was not in denial. People working and drinking themselves to death is not a sign of a healthy society. <BR/><BR/>Until people realize that the old Soviet ways were what destroyed the USSR and stop electing leaders who are nostalgic for these good old days, Russia will not be able to move forward and will risk meeting up with Zimbabwe at the bottom of the ladder.Snake Oil Baronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14365352742028282744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-66859722585381893212007-06-22T06:35:00.000-04:002007-06-22T06:35:00.000-04:00Ok, then I'll try to see your point. Link please t...Ok, then I'll try to see your point. Link please the sources which state men's life expectancy in Russia. I hope the reference period will be written, because if it refers to 1998 or 2000, like the other sources you linked in the past, that's quite outdated.<BR/><BR/>I see an urgent need for action, but certainly not your kind of action, which is useless and dangerous. I'm quite sure you are NOT moved by the best intentions. But even if you were, don't you realise that your blog concentrates all the ignorant Russia-haters in one place?<BR/><BR/>By criticising EVERYTHING is Russian, and NOT ONLY the government, and by making simplistic, and often naive generalisations, you are spreading the seeds of hate. Should the best possible future occur (ie. Russia having a democratic president, who cares about his population), Russians will still be hated, on the basis of YOUR activity. So if there will be more ignorant Russia-haters even in that instance, it will be YOUR fault!<BR/><BR/>YOU are working to DESTOY Russia, and the fact that you say you're doing the exact opposite, makes a big HYPOCRITE of you!<BR/><BR/>You often bring "facts" which are outdated, which refer to a particular period, or are everything, BUT comprehensive (your poll on zhirinovsky, for instance).<BR/><BR/>In the meanwhile, I've never found even a tiny reference on your blog to the fact, that, in order to fight the demographic crisis, Evil Putin started a scheme for 30 million expats to repatriate and couples to have more than 1 child, by granting 250,000 rubels to each new child. If you're so informed of Russia, you certainly should know about these schemes, and not even mentioning them makes of you AGAIN a HYPOCRITE.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-75474439390949112872007-06-21T20:32:00.000-04:002007-06-21T20:32:00.000-04:00KAPTUR:Again with your silly propaganda when confr...KAPTUR:<BR/><BR/>Again with your silly propaganda when confronted by facts.<BR/><BR/>If you are comforted by the fact that a few Russian men live past 60 while most don't (the average age is below 60), instead of seeing a need for urgent action, then you are a venal hater of the Russian people and we despise you for it.<BR/><BR/>If you are just trying to blow a silly neo-Soviet smokescreen to disctract people from the facts then you're really kinda cute and amusing and welcome proof of the need for this blog.La Russophobehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05672264388217953086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-86383513684306574762007-06-21T18:28:00.000-04:002007-06-21T18:28:00.000-04:00Again with your OWN propaganda and sterile statist...Again with your OWN propaganda and sterile statistics.<BR/><BR/>Men DO live over 60 in Russia, or do you personally know men who died on their 60th birthday? The people I know, didn't.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, you don't get paid much in Russia, this is why people have to work hard. But why should this be the their fault?<BR/><BR/>The 1 million story starts to get boring. I already destroyed this point of yours in an other post, but you keep trying to sell it. The yearly death figure is anyway high enough, but it's not as catchy as "ONE MILLION", isn't it?<BR/><BR/>You once told me, you're working to make the figure zero. I don't see Russia getting any better after your activity, which is basically useless. Go and volunteer for an NGO, instead of sitting on your butt.<BR/><BR/>And criticise the Kremlin as much as you want, but you won't spread hate propaganda about the Russian people without me pointing out your distortions, misrepresentations and lies.<BR/><BR/>What are you talking about anyway??<BR/><BR/>The Third Reich died WITH Hitler, the USSR died almost 50 years AFTER Stalin.<BR/><BR/>Since you're so fond of opinion polls, statistics and linking sources, can you link please the source which CLEARLY proves that all people of the USSR supported Soviet conquest of Eastern Europe?<BR/><BR/>You call me a liar. I call you a manipulator, distorter, and a hypocrite. You don't care about Russians, you couldn't care less. You're trying and failing to hide your arrogant hate, by saying a lot of bla bla. If you really cared about Russian people, you would have been a critic of the government and wouldn't spread hate propaganda about common people who did nothing to you, never threatened you and your family and who are just trying to make it in their everyday life.<BR/><BR/>P.S.: I'm repeating the same things all over again, but that's something I borrowed from you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-55115474269392915542007-06-21T17:52:00.000-04:002007-06-21T17:52:00.000-04:00KATPUR:You are a liar. The Russian people support...KATPUR:<BR/><BR/>You are a liar. The Russian people supported the Soviet conquest of Eastern Europe and still support Russian imperialism aimed at the Baltics, Ukraine and Georgia. Can't you even try to tell the truth, or at least try to lie a little more intelligently?<BR/><BR/>Lots of people wrote that they didn't believe Hitler was destroying Germany and Stalin was destroying the USSR. They kept on writing it right up until the time both countries were, in fact, destroyed.<BR/><BR/>All you are doing is reciting the Kremlin's propaganda like a parrot. You make yourself look like an utter fool. Russians work for $3/hour, men don't live to 60 and 1 million are lost from the population. If you think that is not destruction, you hate Russia more than any person alive.La Russophobehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05672264388217953086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-78474732306452995532007-06-21T17:15:00.000-04:002007-06-21T17:15:00.000-04:00I think you are wrong about Russian people destroy...I think you are wrong about Russian people destroying themselves. And if they are to an extent, it's not more than in any other place in the world.<BR/><BR/>Actually, an Italian thinker, namely Massimo Fini, says the whole West, and everybody who is living according to the Western pattern, is heading towards total autodestruction. I personally don't agree with him on this point, but he brings sources and quite convincing reasons to support his idea. So he thinks it that way, but it doesn't necessarily mean he's right. You think it your way, but it doesn't necessarily mean you're right.<BR/><BR/>Germans supported Hitler in WW II, in a war of conquest, Russians will never do that. Most of them are just people, who try to make it in their everyday life and don't want to die.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-4692759285217290372007-06-21T15:44:00.000-04:002007-06-21T15:44:00.000-04:00KAPTUR:Adolf Hitler was viewed as being a savior b...KAPTUR:<BR/><BR/>Adolf Hitler was viewed as being a savior by most Germans right up until he destroyed the country.<BR/><BR/>Russian people should be condemned, because (once again) they are destroying themselves. You praise and defend them, and in so doing you murder them.La Russophobehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05672264388217953086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-59238326147118977662007-06-21T07:53:00.000-04:002007-06-21T07:53:00.000-04:00"Jenya, 24, and her husband are what are generally..."Jenya, 24, and her husband are what are generally referred to here as "New Russians" - people who have benefited from Mr Putin's rule"<BR/><BR/>This is completely phalse. "New Russians" first referred to oligarchs, now it a broader meaning of people who got rich in a debatable manner and in a very short time, who also may have very bad manners. So, "people who have benefited from Mr Putin's rule" is a wrong definition.<BR/><BR/>By the way, I don't know if la Russofoba is rich, but she certainly has the bad manners of a New Russian.<BR/><BR/>"But, for most Russians, Mr Putin is a saviour, the man who brought them stability and prosperity after the dark days of the 1990s."<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, this is the main point. But, luckily,<BR/><BR/>"Polls showed widespread disapproval by Russians of the violent suppression of rallies."<BR/><BR/>and Mr Kasparov himself said that <BR/><BR/>"They know that lots of people are unhappy. Today it could be 5,000, tomorrow 50,000. The regime feels it is unstable. It feels the growing protest."<BR/><BR/>By the way, Germans citizens claimed they didn't exactly know what was going on in the concentration camps. This, of course, IS NOT A JUSTIFICATION, but it's FAR DIFFERENT from saying that they knew millions were being killed and they didn't care as long as they were getting better. Indeed, when allied soldiers forced Germans citizens to "pay a visit" to the camps and witness with their own eyes the inhumanity of Nazi rule, many of them fainted.<BR/><BR/>But of course la Russofoba will always try to throw in some hate propaganda to condemn Russian common people, because she would like to see them extinct and she is doing everything fo this purpose.<BR/><BR/>Finally, Mr Kasparov never mentioned that "Russia is pathetic". What he said is there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com