Russian 'spies' arrested over $50 million military electronics smuggling network

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Russian 'spies' arrested over $50 million military electronics smuggling network - topic here ..

Russian 'spies' arrested over $50 million military electronics smuggling network: on businessinsider.com : http://www.businessinsider.com/alexander-fishenko-indicted-feds-bust-houston-spy-network-accused-of-shipping-50-million-in-high-tech-electronics-to-russia-2012-10

Aaa .. 'Alexander Fishenko - was charged with operating as an 'unregistered agent of the Russian government' ..

Fishenko was born in the Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan ..'

 

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An old Soviet loyalist...........
We are asking for trouble all the time. We get soft and then wonder why this kind of thing happens. That is what political correctness does for you.
While I have met some very friendly and humble Russians, I know that the U.S.A. and Russia will always be sworn enemies. One can easily do without the other. Even in WWII, as important as Russian assistance was, we were strange bed fellows. If by some miracle Pyotr the Great was still ruling things would be a lot better and I think they would have a lot more in common interest with the West. I would much rather have Pyotr over there than Stalin, Kruschev, Putin or Medvedev. Pyotr would have been eager to align with us rather than Iran or China. We would have been serious trade partners.
Thomas Jefferson had a residence in France. It would have been really neat if Pyotr (Petrus) and Thomas Jefferson were of the same generation and Jefferson could have met Pytor. Pyotr met William Penn on his "Great Embassy". Pyotr went on two of those enlightenment tours.
If not for Basil III, Ivan III and Pyotr the Great, Stalin would not have been able to assist in WWII and they would not have been the first into space. That foundation was laid long ago and matured handsomely with Pyotr in power.
If I am not mistaken, Ivan III was the first Tzar and Pyotr was the first Autocrat (absolute power). I have a lot of respect for those two and Basil III. They were very interested in nation building and getting Russia out of the dark ages.
Katherine the Great deserves some credit too, though she, like Stalin, relied heavily on the foundation that Basil, Ivan and Pyotr laid.
The "German Suburb" in Moscow was originally put in place by Basil and relied upon heavily by Pyotr, especially his early development of the Russian Navy. His first ship building adventures were coordinated by two Dutch men he met and socialized with in the German Suburb. He was considered the "antichrist" by many Russians for adopting Western attire, technology, religion and tradition, and socializing with foreigners in the German Suburb. No matter what they thought of him, he was doing his very best to help Mother Russia. Pyotr was a genius. He was also humble, and while he dealt with the Streltsy ruthlessly (one of the best things he ever did), he generally did not abuse authority in that way.
Pyotr would not have needed spies nearly as badly as the Bolsheviks and Stalin's proteges (Putin, Krushchev, etc.) always seem to.
Breshnev was the best modern Russian (Soviet at time) premier, IMHO.

 

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Zou, you wrote:
'Breshnev was the best modern Russian (Soviet at time) premier, IMHO.'

Brezhnev & Honnecker: .. ..

.. with the inscription: 'My Lord! help me to survive between this deadly love' .. Image source: Wikipedia French edition, link below. And look in English Google translation from the French language : Mon Dieu, aide-moi à survivre à cet amour mortel (My God, help me to survive this deadly love) : http://translate.google.fr/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMon_Dieu%2C_aide-moi_%25C3%25A0_survivre_%25C3%25A0_cet_amour_mortel

Brezhnev? - NO, thanks.

'During Mikhail Gorbachev's tenure as leader there was an increase in criticism of the Brezhnev years, such as claims that Brezhnev followed "a fierce neo-Stalinist line".' - here (in 'Legacy') on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev

'Brezhnev's assertion that the Soviet Union had the right to interfere in the internal affairs of its satellites to "safeguard socialism" became known as the Brezhnev Doctrine' .. - too on Wikipedia.

Look: the military intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968; martial law by Wojciech Jaruzelski in Poland in 1981 etc intervention in Afghanistan ..

'To East European satellites, the position adopted by the Soviet leaders, quickly dubbed Brezhnev doctrine was without ambivalence, as witnessed by the case of Czechoslovakia . In 1968 , the attempt of the local Communist leader Alexander Dubček to liberalize largely political and economic system, following the slogan of socialism with a human face , quickly aroused the skepticism of Moscow, which feared a repeat of the 1956 Hungarian events. In July, Brezhnev denounced the Prague Spring as "revisionist" and "anti-Soviet." The 21 August 1968 , after fruitless pressure on Dubček, Brezhnev triggered the invasion by the forces of the Warsaw Pact , which replaced the government by men devoted to the Soviet Union. This brutal intervention for two decades marked the limits of the autonomy that Moscow gave its satellites'.. - on Wikipedia French edition here in English Google translation: http://translate.google.bs/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FL%25C3%25A9onid_Brejnev

.. and this too from Wikipedia, why not:
'Brezhnev is probably one of the most decorated in the history. He displayed forty decorations on his uniform. This figure exceeds 120 by including foreign decorations.
In 1978, he was back the order of Victory. This Soviet decoration, created in 1943, rewarded the leaders who led large military operations during the Second World War. But Brezhnev during the conflict that was political commissar with the rank of colonel, and walked no major military operation.The pressure of war veterans, Gorbachev canceled this decoration in 1985.'


An old Soviet dictator, IMHO.

Tell me, you may have mistaken Brezhniev with Gorbachev? ..:dodgy:

.. and from GhostShell message, some true words:
'For far too long Russia has been a state of tyranny and regret. The average citizen is forced to live an isolated life from the rest of the world imposed by it's politicians and leaders. A way of thinking outdated for well over 100 years now. The still present communism feeling has fused with today's capitalism and bred together a level of corruption and lack of decency of which we've never seen before.
Even though the country is going through hard times and many people are starving, the Russian Government has enough resources to spend on its spies.
There have been many arrests this year (just like in any other year).' ..
- here: http://malwaretips.com/Thread-GhostShell-releases-2-5-million-Russian-government-accounts