Blowing up Russia by Litvinenko Alexander & Felshtinsky Yuri

Author:Litvinenko, Alexander & Felshtinsky, Yuri
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gibson Square
Published: 2019-09-11T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

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The FSB Against the People

SO FAR THE TERRORISTS had not been identified, or rather they had been identified as not being Chechens. The failed bombing attempt in Ryazan prompted the public to think that the FSB might be behind the bombings. For the “party of war” this was just one more indication that a full-scale war in Chechnya had to be started as soon as possible. The date of September 24 was no coincidence, for if the bombing in Ryazan had succeeded, Putin and the heads of all the military and law enforcement ministries were scheduled to make hard-line speeches in response.

On September 24, like a chorus in some well-planned stage performance, Russian politicians began demanding war. Patrushev announced that the terrorists who blew up the apartment houses in Moscow were in Chechnya. We know this is a lie. Patrushev did not identify his sources, since he had none. Patrushev did not offer any proof. His press secretary Zdanovich had spoken only of the possible or probable withdrawal of the terrorists to Chechnya (or to the countries of the CIS). But Patrushev needed to start a war, and so he claimed that Chechnya had been transformed into a hotbed of terrorism.

Rushailo claimed that organized crime inside and outside Russia had used the “Chechen bridgehead to unleash a wide-reaching campaign of subversion against Russia.... The law enforcement agencies and the armed forces have adequate potential to defend the interests of Russia in the Northern Caucasus... The federal forces are prepared to mount armed operations.” In other words, the MVD was preparing to wage war against Chechnya as part of the effort to combat organized crime, including criminal groups. As though the fight against crime was going perfectly well on all the rest of Russia’s territory!

The situation in the Northern Caucasus and the possible consequences for Russia were outlined by the chairman of the Security and Defense Committee, Alexander Ryabov, in an interview he gave to the newspaper Segodnya. In his opinion the world was undergoing a new geopolitical division under the cover of Muslim slogans. For Russia’s enemies, the most important thing was to create a weak zone in Russia’s “soft underbelly.” This theory is reminiscent of the conspiracy of the Elders of Zion, except that this time the elders are Muslim, not Jewish. “A new geopolitical division of the world” is serious business. It will take a serious war to sort it out.

The newspaper Vek published an interview with the vice president of a Collegium of Military Experts, Alexander Vladimirov, who expressed the belief that the best solution right now would be a small victorious war in Chechnya. In his opinion the safety cordon around Chechnya proposed by Putin was a good idea, but it should be only the first step, since a cordon for its own sake is a pointless exercise. (Vladmirov’s opinion must certainly have been noted, since they actually started with the second step, full-scale war.)

The final, decisive word in support of war was

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