Russia – Nation Overrun by Traitors and Thieves
Table of Contents
- Introduction
Description: The introduction establishes the central thesis of the page: that the destruction of the Soviet Union and the post‑Soviet order should be understood not merely as a political transition, but as a civilizational rupture whose human cost, in the author’s view, has never been honestly measured or adequately named.
- Beginning of the End
Description: This section frames the late Soviet period not as an accidental decline, but as a stage in which corruption, passivity, and elite betrayal combined to make later disintegration and expropriation possible.
- The Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Description: Here the narrative moves from gradual weakening to formal state collapse, emphasizing the tension between constitutional legitimacy, popular referendum results, and the acts of a narrow group of decision‑makers.
- Atrocities and Economic Genocide
Description: This section is written to intensify the moral charge of the overall argument by linking political collapse to violence, social disintegration, and mass human suffering across the former Soviet space.
- The Robbery of the Century
Description: The purpose of this section is to reinterpret post‑Soviet privatization not as flawed reform, but as organized seizure of collectively owned wealth on a scale the author considers historically extraordinary.
- Putin to the Rescue
Description: The discussion of Putin introduces a more complicated figure: a leader portrayed as restoring a degree of order while preserving the underlying oligarchic structure that, in the author’s view, remained responsible for continuing national decline.
- Khodorkovsky Show
Description: This section extends the broader skepticism of the page to high‑profile conflicts within the elite, suggesting that apparent confrontations may themselves have functioned as political theater rather than genuine rupture.
- “The Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe”, or Silent War and Genocide against Russian People?
Description: At this point the page turns explicitly toward legal, demographic, and definitional questions, attempting to connect political statements, population losses, and international legal language into one accusatory framework.
- The Soviet People’s Assets under the Constitution of the Soviet Union
Description: This section seeks to recast the ownership question in constitutional and moral terms, arguing that post‑Soviet wealth transfer cannot be understood without returning to the prior legal idea of collective national ownership.
- Moscow, the Capital of Russia, is a Potemkin Village
Description: Here the page contrasts visible metropolitan wealth with broader national impoverishment, using Moscow as a symbolic concentration of post‑Soviet inequality, theatrical prosperity, and elite insulation.
- Feast in Time of Plague
Description: This section broadens the critique beyond Russia’s domestic elite to include foreign governments, businesses, and celebrities portrayed as beneficiaries, enablers, or willing recipients of wealth extracted during post‑Soviet collapse.
- Opposition
Description: The page concludes its political argument by criticizing not only the ruling system but also the opposition, presenting both as structurally inadequate to confront the deeper economic and historical grievances described above.
- Conclusion
Description: The conclusion functions not merely as a summary, but as a call to reclassify and reinterpret the entire post‑Soviet period in far harsher political, legal, and moral terms than are ordinarily accepted.
- References
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It is a noble thing to do when someone helps their countrymen free themselves from the oppression and tyranny of a ruling dictatorial regime, but it is a crime of unprecedented proportions when, under hysterical howls about communist repressions, tyranny, executions, etc., the very people who supposedly volunteered
to help
their countrymen in building
a democratic and free society ruthlessly and brazenly robbed their countrymen of everything those countrymen had built and owned, leaving them to die without any means of survival in the worst economic war and genocide against their own nation, which claimed over 60 million lives in 25 years of so‑called democratic reforms
. This is exactly what happened to the people of the former Soviet Union.
Starting in the mid-1980s, throughout the 1990s, and into the 2000s, under the pretense of reforms, democratic changes, the need for a free‑market economy, and promises of a happier and better future, 290 million people of the former Soviet Union were ruthlessly robbed by their criminal government and a couple of dozen oligarchs who, without asking and in violation of the constitution, took into their private ownership all hard‑earned assets and the entire national wealth of the Soviet people — i.e., everything that was built with the blood and sweat of the Soviet people, defended with 24.6 million lives of the same Soviet people during World War II, rebuilt after the war, and owned by the entire population of the Soviet Union (i.e., 290 million Soviet people). The preparation
for the robbery of the century
began during Mikhail Gorbachev’s treacherous glasnost
and perestroika
, and the actual robbery was accomplished under Boris Yeltsin’s oligarchic and openly criminal regime, when the most valuable assets of the Soviet people were stolen‑privatized
for 0.1% to 1% of their real value, using money provided by a dysfunctional government that was puppeteered by oligarchs who, in turn, were trained and puppeteered by Western intelligence agents (CIA, MI6, and Mossad), while their countrymen were left to die—literally.
In the past 25 years, as a result of destructive policies by their criminal government and cruel robbery by oligarchs, 290 million Soviet people were put into such harsh social and economic conditions that tens of millions of them did not survive. For example, in the 1990s, people of the former Soviet Union continued to work but were not paid for months and, in some places, even for years. At that time, people of the former Soviet Union did not have any other means of support, and the only hope was their government, but it became so criminalized and heartless that it ruthlessly left its people to their fate, causing the worst economic genocide against a nation in the history of mankind. The betrayal by its criminal government resulted in such widespread devastation and loss of purpose and interest in life among Soviet people that it led to the worst imaginable tragedy of the 20th century: over 60 million lives, out of whom over 32.5 million — people of Russian nationality (i.e., 25% of the total Russian population in the world) — were irrevocably lost during so‑called democratic reforms
, when there were no wars, dictatorships, communist executions, repressions, etc., because 22.26 million children of Russian nationality were never born (excess deaths
, i.e., decrease of the population due to lower‑than‑expected birth rates), and 10.28 million people of Russian nationality died prematurely, out of whom over 800,000 committed suicide, and the rest were either killed or died from alcoholism, drug overdoses, disease, poor nutrition, poor health care, poor or no housing, poor economic conditions, and loss of hope in general.
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Government corruption has always been and still is pretty much every nation’s problem, and the former Soviet Union was not an exception. Since the inception of the Soviet system, corruption was an integral part of it, but under Mikhail Gorbachev between 1985 and 1991, corruption reached unprecedented proportions, especially in the highest echelons of power. In order to damage beyond repair the credibility of the Communist Party, Mikhail Gorbachev intentionally let corruption flourish at the highest levels of party ranks because his main goal was the destruction of the Soviet system, as was admitted in 1999 by Gorbachev’s right hand
and the creator of perestroika
, Mr. Alexandr N. Yakovlev, in his foreword for the Russian edition of the book The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by Stéphane Courtois. Mikhail Gorbachev knew that by opening the Pandora
box of corruption and thievery with his treacherous glasnost
and perestroika
, and by doing nothing to change and correct things, he would destroy people’s trust in the communist system, and that it would be the end of the Soviet Union.
schools of treasonin London, United Kingdom.
The crucial first step toward the downfall of the Soviet Union and its political system was made during the 19th All-Union Conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in June 1988, when party delegate and special prosecutor Mr. Telman Gdlyan, during his speech, accused several party delegates and party leaders of taking bribes and spoke about the cover-ups of numerous corruption cases by top party officials in the government. Mikhail Gorbachev, who was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and was leading the conference, refused to discuss the corruption case of top party and government officials at the conference, which was broadcast on television throughout the entire country. Instead, Gorbachev took Gdlyan’s folder with all supporting documents about the corruption case and said that he would look at them later. According to Mr. Vitaly Korotich, former editor-in-chief of the popular Ogonyok magazine, when he later followed up with Mikhail Gorbachev about Gdlyan’s government corruption case, Gorbachev asked Korotich not to rock the boat
.
By the time the 19th All-Union Conference corruption case cover-up happened in the summer of 1988, all branches of power in the former Soviet Union, including the KGB — the sole provider of national security in the Soviet Union — were already so corrupt that nobody in the top echelons of the Communist Party or KGB ever attempted to raise the question of Mikhail Gorbachev’s removal from power and imprisonment, along with the corrupted top government officials for whom he was covering up, because they all violated the constitution, broke the law, and belonged in prison. Mikhail Gorbachev and his supporters within the Communist Party knew very well that Soviet people would not revolt and would not demand that he and all corrupted government officials be put in prison, because for over 70 years Soviet people were taught not to question their government and blindly believed that the government would always take care of them, and they never could imagine that the Soviet Union could be destroyed because of their inaction. The mentality of the majority of the last generation of the Soviet people, and especially of the post–World War II generation, was such that they selfishly cared only about themselves and their families, and not about their society or the system they lived in, and their credo in life was that it’s not our business
, leave us alone
, we don’t want to know anything
, and we don’t want to be involved in anything
— all of which was skillfully used against them and led to their destruction and the demise of their country.
victory paradewith champagne bottles in front of Lenin’s Mausoleum on Red Square after senior GKChP members — who tried to save the USSR — were arrested on 22 August 1991 by Mikhail Gorbachev, whom they wanted to remove from power and charge with treason.
Because the Soviet people failed to act following the events at the 19th party conference, their corrupted government officials became so emboldened that they devised a plan to rob 290 million of their countrymen of everything they owned under the constitution of the Soviet Union: natural resources, plants, factories, schools, hospitals, buildings, land, etc. This was the beginning of the end of the Soviet system, which turned into a silent war
and genocide against the people of the Soviet Union. Mikhail Gorbachev knew that his actions would devastate the Soviet people, but he did not care about his countrymen, because his hatred toward communism turned into hatred toward his own countrymen, and it showed — in the 25 years after his treacherous glasnost
and perestroika
, over 60 million lives of his countrymen were irrevocably lost.
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On December 8, 1991, Boris Yeltsin, together with Leonid Kravchuk and Stanislav Shushkevich, leaders of the Ukrainian and Belorussian republics of the Soviet Union, met in secret at the state dacha near Viskuli in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, Belorussia, and, in violation of the constitution of the Soviet Union, signed the agreement to dissolve the Soviet Union. In later years, Boris Yeltsin himself told the story to Russian media — how he bluffed his way into the signing of the agreement to dissolve the Soviet Union. According to Boris Yeltsin, on December 8, 1991, right from the dacha in Belovezhskaya Pushcha and before any documents were signed, he first called Mr. George H. W. Bush, the President of the United States, and told him that he and the other leaders of the republics had decided to dissolve the Soviet Union, and assured the President of the United States that he was in control of the country and its nuclear weapons. It was a grave mistake on the part of the President of the United States, Mr. George H. W. Bush, to speak with Boris Yeltsin on that day without the direct participation of Mikhail Gorbachev, and especially to agree to the bluff that Boris Yeltsin was in full control of the country and its nuclear arsenal, because Boris Yeltsin was not in control of anything, even of himself. Right after the phone conversation with the President of the United States on December 8, 1991, Boris Yeltsin went to the room where Leonid Kravchuk and Stanislav Shushkevich were waiting for him, and there they signed the agreement to dissolve the Soviet Union. Then Boris Yeltsin called Mikhail Gorbachev and informed him that the Soviet Union was officially dissolved
and that the President of the United States, Mr. George H. W. Bush, knew about it and supported the dissolution of the USSR.
According to the stories told by Boris Yeltsin, Leonid Kravchuk and Stanislav Shushkevich, and everybody who was with them that day, they were very scared and expected that the KGB at any moment would arrest and execute them for treason. Of course, they should have been scared, because they knew that on December 8, 1991, they committed treason against their country and its people, but their fears
were groundless, because the KGB had already been undermined and destroyed back in 1988, although Mikhail Gorbachev officially dissolved the KGB on December 3, 1991 — five days before the official
dissolution of the Soviet Union. By all measures, the agreement to dissolve the Soviet Union, which was signed by Boris Yeltsin, Leonid Kravchuk and Stanislav Shushkevich on December 8, 1991, in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, was treasonous, unconstitutional and undemocratic, because the leaders of the remaining 12 republics of the Soviet Union did not participate in the signing of the agreement to dissolve the Soviet Union, and the fate of the multinational state was decided
by only three members instead of all fifteen — not to mention that during the March 17, 1991 referendum, 78% of Soviet people (i.e., 113,512,812 out of 148,574,606) voted to save the Soviet Union. Of course, Mikhail Gorbachev, who was the President of the Soviet Union at that time, could have arrested Boris Yeltsin, Leonid Kravchuk and Stanislav Shushkevich for treason if he had wanted to, and the Soviet people were waiting for him to act on the matter and save the country because they had voted to save it, but Mikhail Gorbachev betrayed his countrymen. On December 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev officially resigned from his post as the President of the Soviet Union. This was the end of the Soviet Union and the beginning of full-scale genocide against its people.
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The periods of Mikhail Gorbachev’s rule (1985–1991) and Boris Yeltsin’s rule (1991–1999) will be written down in history as the darkest periods for the people of the former Soviet Union and Russia. Beginning in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, millions of Soviet people—majority ethnic Russians—who lived in the former republics and autonomous regions of the Soviet Union were betrayed by their governments and left to die, because local nationalists demanded that all people of non-local nationality
give up their homes and move back to their historic lands (that is, other republics or Russia) or be killed. Families that refused or were unable to leave their homes were brutally killed, beheaded, and gutted like animals; their mutilated bodies and severed heads were put on display as an example to others. In broad daylight, in the former republics and autonomous regions of the Soviet Union, armed and raging nationalistic gangs seized homes and raped women of non-local nationality in the streets; they also raped children (girls and boys) of non-local nationality in front of their parents before killing them along with captured and tortured adults. No wonder that former Soviet and current Russian government officials do not like to talk about these atrocities of the late 1980s and 1990s and try to deny this fact, because admitting to having the blood of all those people on their hands would be equivalent to signing a death sentence for themselves and voluntarily stepping onto the beheading scaffold. Nevertheless, their cowardly disavowal does not mean that the above-mentioned atrocities did not happen, because there are witnesses who lived through that hell.
In the 1990s the situation inside Russia was no better: millions of ethnic Russians were dying prematurely from suicide, disease, alcoholism, drug overdoses, poor nutrition, inadequate health care, and poor or nonexistent housing and economic conditions. There were tens of millions of homeless people, at least five million street children, and tens of millions of drug users and alcoholics. Human trafficking, slave trading, prostitution, and crime reached unprecedented proportions. Every day dozens of businessmen were brutally killed because crime syndicates were clearing out
spheres of interest for their bosses, the oligarchs. Russian cities literally became war zones, and machine-gun fights between crime groups could be heard day and night, especially in Moscow. This was Russian democracy
and freedom
at their best. Homeless and hungry children sat at nearly every corner asking for money to buy bread; in Moscow they even sat in front of the State Duma (Russian Parliament), where senators arrived in luxury vehicles with personal drivers. It is simply impossible to recall all of this without shuddering at how horrible it was. No wonder that the former vice president of Russia, Alexander Rutskoy, turned against Boris Yeltsin and called his reforms
an act of economic genocide
.
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After Mikhail Gorbachev fulfilled his role in the destruction of the Soviet system by delivering a significant blow to the credibility of the ruling Communist Party and deliberately failing to protect the country and its people from destruction, he was quickly replaced by Boris Yeltsin. It was a well-calculated plan by the criminal ruling elite
, and a well-performed theatrical show for the masses: Boris Yeltsin opposed the evil
Mikhail Gorbachev and became the only hope
and savior
of Russia.
In the 1990s, while millions of Russians were dying, the criminal Russian government, headed by Boris Yeltsin, was preoccupied with privatization
—in other words, transferring national wealth into the private ownership of a small group of oligarchs who puppeteered Boris Yeltsin and the rest of the Russian government. They created laws to suit themselves, because every vote in the State Duma was either bought or enforced
by threats of physical violence against deputies and their families; senator positions were on sale and could be bought for $500,000 (later becoming more expensive, as admitted by several presidential candidates during debates in the 2012 Russian presidential elections). This was not a democratic
government; it was a criminal enterprise.
Point of Viewon the YouTube channel
Red Line. In this video he says that all members of the Russian government are subjected to a thorough interview process in London, United Kingdom, before they are granted positions.
Largest oil and natural gas companies, factories, plants, television stations, land, and other most valuable assets that had been built and owned by the Soviet and Russian people were stolen in broad daylight and sold in private
auctions to designated individuals among the oligarchs for 0.1–1% of their real value or even less. For example, Russia’s largest oil companies were privatized
for $150–300 million; the aviation company Ilyushin (an equivalent of Boeing) was privatized
for $50,000; and numerous buildings in the center of Moscow were privatized
for as little as $15 each. The money used for privatization
came from loans and funds the Russian government received from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Instead of using that money to pay overdue pensions and salaries to starving people, the government gave low-interest loans to oligarchs for privatization,
while the population went unpaid for months and people died from malnutrition and hunger. The revenues of the companies the oligarchs and corrupt officials privatized
were measured in hundreds of millions of dollars per year—amounts less than or equal to the sale prices—so within a year the oligarchs and corrupt officials became full owners of virtually the entire national wealth of Russia. This is how the robbery of the century happened in the former Soviet Union, when national wealth built by the Soviet people was stolen, privatized, and transferred into the private ownership of a few dozen oligarchs and their corrupt government accomplices.
By the time Boris Yeltsin resigned on December 31, 1999, and tearfully pleaded in his televised farewell speech to save Russia
, over 30 million lives of former Soviet people had already been irrevocably lost, of whom over 16 million were people of Russian nationality. Hundreds of billions of dollars in Soviet people’s assets—covered in the blood and sweat of those lost poor souls—were stolen by oligarchs and corrupt government officials and converted into private ownership, then transferred to foreign banks (primarily in Europe—England, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, Germany—and in North America—the United States and Canada) and/or converted into foreign tangible assets such as expensive real estate, businesses, investments, sports clubs, private planes, yachts, and cars. In the 1990s, criminal governments from the former Soviet Union and oligarchs made treasonous pacts with various Western governments and businesses, exchanging acceptance
and legalization
of stolen billions for deals against the national interests of their post-Soviet countries and countrymen, resulting in economic genocide and the loss of over 60 million lives of the Soviet people. Thus, from 1991 to the present day, using sophisticated currency manipulation schemes and specific economic policies, the corrupt Russian government and oligarchs continue economic genocide and rob their countrymen by deliberately turning Russia into an inflation dump
and transferring billions of dollars per day in real goods—oil, natural gas, coal, wood, steel, precious metals, diamonds—into Western economies.
Russia’s Central Bank issues rubles primarily by purchasing U.S. dollars and euros received as payment for those real goods, but then knowingly evaporates
those purchased dollars and euros in Russia’s foreign-exchange reserves by investing them in long-term foreign government securities with low interest, presenting those securities as the best and most secure investments while downplaying their significantly lower yields compared with actual inflation. This gradually but effectively erases
hundreds of billions of dollars and euros from Russia’s foreign-exchange reserves due to the substantial difference between low interest rates on held long-term foreign securities and high real-life inflation rates. By continuing these policies, the corrupt Russian government and oligarchs act as enemies of their own country, intentionally subjecting Russia and its people to economic occupation
[1] by foreign nations. That allows Western countries and their reserves to print more money (not backed by real goods and services) equal to the amounts held in their governments’ long-term securities purchased with Russia’s foreign-exchange reserves, and then credit their own governments with that newly printed money—effectively transferring inflation onto Russia while adding money to their own budgets without damaging their own economies.
By various estimates, in Russia alone during the last 21 years, between $24–27 trillion were stolen from Russian people (children, the elderly, teachers, workers, doctors, scientists, etc.), of which $18–21 trillion were transferred into the economy of the United States. Between $8–10 trillion of that sum stems from the sale of 500 tons of weapons‑grade uranium under the Chernomyrdin–Gore agreement, for which the United States paid just $8 billion—over 1,000 times less than the actual cost—thus robbing the Soviet people of uranium the Soviet Union had been accumulating for over fifty years; the sale was an illegal and shady deal by the Russian puppet government of the West, carried out by Boris Yeltsin and his regime to secure the support of the United States.
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During Boris Yeltsin’s second term, when he was not doing much, except urinating on the airplane’s wheel during a US visit and drinking heavily, Russia was run by several oligarchs and was immersed in such chaos that it put Russia and its people on the brink of civil war and extinction. Of course, such a turn of events and the loss of control over their slaves
, i.e. the remaining Russian population, were not acceptable to the oligarchs and their cronies in the Russian government; therefore, they quickly replaced Yeltsin with Vladimir Putin, who was one of their own, although he had a KGB background, not to mention that he started his political career under Anatoly Sobchak—another democratic reformer
and contributor to the destruction of the Soviet system.
Russian oligarchs made a good choice with Vladimir Putin, because he had charisma and could connect
with people, and there is no denying that he made for Russia’s stability more than Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin combined, but he was still the representative of the criminal oligarchic regime, because in his first televised interview after replacing Yeltsin as President of Russia Putin said that he would not revise the privatization
of the 1990s. Therefore, Russian oligarchs and their cronies in the government could sleep in peace, knowing that all national wealth, which they stole from the Soviet people in the early 1990s, would not be taken from them and returned to the rightful owners, i.e. all former Soviet people. Interestingly, there are between 6–8 million legal and 1–2 million illegal workers of non‑Russian nationality from the former Soviet republics who currently live and work in Russia; their parents, before the fall of the Soviet Union, were equal owners of all natural wealth that was stolen from them by their very employers, i.e. oligarchs. Now, ironically, these people have become a cheap labor force that the oligarchs disdainfully call gastarbeiter.
Except for building his power vertical
, stopping the war in Chechnya, and making sure that at least minimal wages and pensions were paid on time, Putin did not change most things, because the economic policies and political course of the country remained the same as those adopted by his predecessors after the demise of the Soviet Union. Under Putin’s watch the population losses came to over 32.5 million people of Russian nationality (25% of the total Russian population in the world); not to mention that Russia still has over 18 million drug users (13% of the total population, of whom 4 million are heroin addicts), over 42 million alcoholics (30% of the total population), 5–6 million homeless people, 3–4 million street children, etc. Putin and his oligarchic regime did nothing to stop what the author characterizes as the genocide of the Russian people.
Putin and his oligarchic regime are trying to make Russian people believe that Russia is getting back to its previous superpower status, and even arranged for Russia to host the 2014 Winter Olympics and the 2018 Soccer World Cup, but all their attempts are in vain, because Russia is never going to be the superpower the Soviet Union was—not with the traitors and oligarchs sitting at the top of the power and food chain with all the money they stole from their countrymen in the 1990s, and only the blind cannot see it. Putin even requested his political advisers to come up with a unifying idea for the Russian people so they could make an economic miracle
in Russia, but it is never going to happen, because who in their right mind would want to work for the oligarchs who ruthlessly robbed their own people and stole the entire country during privatization
of the 1990s, or, for example, who would want to have more babies (even if there were normal economic conditions for it, which there are not, because 91% of Russia’s population live at or below poverty), so there would be more slaves for the criminal oligarchic regime?
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In order to stay in power longer and still be under Putin’s protection
, Russian oligarchs needed to make it look to the masses that Vladimir Putin was tough with the oligarchs, so they either collectively volunteered
the youngest, i.e. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the owner of Yukos Oil Company, to play the victim in disguise, or he volunteered
himself. What looks odd about the whole story of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s imprisonment is that if it had been Vladimir Putin’s real fight with the oligarchs, then all oligarchs and pretty much the entire Russian government would have ended up in jail, because all of them were stealing, and everything they stole in the 1990s would have been returned to the people; but that did not happen, and Putin had put in prison
only one oligarch, i.e. Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Why him? What else could Putin have done if, in the 1990s, he himself was helping
to redistribute
all that stolen wealth into the private hands of oligarchs and their cronies in the Russian government?
Interestingly, there is still a lot of money that was stolen by Mikhail Khodorkovsky from the Soviet people during privatization
, and is currently located in various foreign bank accounts or invested in properties around the world, including Russia, which are controlled either by Mikhail Khodorkovsky himself or by his family members and representatives. While he is in prison, those resources provide his immediate family members with security and such high incomes that all families in Russia (with the exception of oligarchs, members of the Russian government, and their families) could only dream about. For example, in 1994 Mikhail Khodorkovsky privatized
for almost nothing the former manor of Prince Alexander Vasilchikov in Korallovo, near Moscow, which in Soviet times was transformed into a sanatorium for children. Mikhail Khodorkovsky changed that sanatorium into his private lyceum-boarding school for needy children, made his father and mother the main organizers and curators of the lyceum, and opened endowment funds in the United States and Great Britain in the name of the lyceum. At first glance, it looks as if Mikhail Khodorkovsky did a noble thing, i.e. opened a lyceum-boarding school for kids whose parents were killed by terrorists or in the line of duty, but at second glance the lyceum, with its enormous territory and numerous buildings, is worth at least $150–300 million, if not more; and to operate such an institution, which houses a couple of hundred kids, using only the earned interest on the endowment money in foreign banks — and especially with Moscow’s prices — means that those endowments must be at least $100–200 million each, if not more. It also means that Mikhail Khodorkovsky used at least half a billion dollars of stolen money in order to set it all up.
People should ask themselves the following question: what is worse — knowingly stealing the national wealth from the Soviet people and thus causing economic genocide of 60 million people, out of whom over 22 million are children of Russian nationality (due to excess deaths
, i.e. a decrease of the population due to lower-than-expected birth rates), or building, with a part of that stolen money, a lyceum-boarding school for a couple of hundred needy kids so the Khodorkovsky family could hide
behind their school as noble doers
, and thus have a secure life with high incomes while managing and living in that institution? The whole story with Khodorkovsky’s lyceum-boarding school goes along with those anecdotal stories being told in Russia, in which Russian people seem to be puzzled
about their feelings
towards those criminals who take government loans for doing noble things (i.e. to build a cancer center for children, a boarding school for the poor, a homeless shelter, etc.), but through various illegal schemes use
half of the money on themselves. As for Mikhail Khodorkovsky, he did not even take a loan; together with other oligarchs and their cronies in the Russian government, he knowingly took what was not his to take and what belonged to the Soviet and Russian people. He knew it would cause devastation, and he could have walked away if he had any conscience and sympathy for the very people he was robbing, but he didn’t.
The fact that the Kremlin did not take from Mikhail Khodorkovsky all his properties and money, except for Yukos Oil Company, and left the ownership and management of the Podmoskovny Lyceum-Boarding School to his parents, and did not touch
the endowment funds, speaks volumes. It is possible that the political imprisonment
of Mikhail Khodorkovsky could be a sham, and in reality Mikhail Khodorkovsky himself agreed to become a victim
for Putin’s toughness with oligarchs
show for the masses, knowing that his family would be well taken care of. If this is really the case, then Putin and the oligarchs have fooled everyone and had a good ride
for the last 12 years. Therefore, it will be interesting to see what will happen after Mikhail Khodorkovsky is released from prison, and whether Putin will nominate him as his successor, of course if Putin remains in power till that time.
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Interestingly, when, on April 25, 2005, during his annual state-of-the-nation address, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century
, he conveniently forgot to mention the cruel genocide and the silent war
that are still going on against his countrymen.
According to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article II, adopted in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly, the definition of genocide is the following: …any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
- (1) killing members of the group;
(2) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(3) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(4) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(5) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Also, under international law, genocide is a crime regardless of whether committed in time of peace or in time of war
(Article I).
On several counts of the above UN Articles I and II, what was and still is happening in Russia during these last 25 years is an act of genocide, because it resulted in the loss of over 32.5 million people of Russian nationality (25% of the total Russian population in the world), not to mention that today’s Russia has over 18 million drug users (13% of the total population, of whom 4 million are heroin addicts), over 42 million alcoholics (30% of the total population), 5–6 million homeless people, 3–4 million street children, and around 1 million people with HIV infections — i.e., all those horrible things that Russian people never knew or experienced until Mikhail Gorbachev introduced his treacherous glasnost
and perestroika
and started the chain of events that led to the demise of the Soviet Union and the annihilation of over 60 million of its people.
Let’s look at some facts and numbers, because numbers do not lie; these numbers represent the 86-year history of human population growth in the former Soviet Union, and later in Russia, from 1926 to 2012. The average annual population growth in the former USSR from 1926 to 1991 was 2,200,000 people, of whom 1,060,000 (48.2%) were people of Russian nationality. As for the average annual population growth during the same years in the Russian Federation alone, it was 858,000 people, of whom 753,000 were people of Russian nationality.
| Population Growth in the USSR during the period from 1926 to 1991 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Countries | All Nationalities | Russian Nationality |
| USSR | 2,200,000 per year | 1,060,000 per year |
| Russian Federation | 858,000 per year | 753,000 per year |
When we look at total population growth in the Russian Federation from 1991 to 2010, during the years of so‑called perestroika
and democracy
, there was no growth in a single year and the total population declined by 5,600,000 people, from 148,500,000 to 142,900,000 — and this is after 6,400,000 migrants were added from 1992 to 2010, meaning 12,000,000 people died, of whom 10,280,000 were people of Russian nationality. From 2012 to 2025 the population in Russia increased only by 916,000, to 143,816,410, but these are just officially available numbers; unofficially there are claims that the total population of the Russian Federation is somewhere between 70–90 million people. Officially, from 2012 to 2025 an additional 19,360,000 people have died, of whom 13,000,000 were people of Russian nationality. Therefore, the total number of deaths in Russia from 1991 to 2025 was 31,360,000, of whom 23,280,000 were people of Russian nationality.
Now, if we use the average annual population growth in the Russian Federation from 1926 to 1991, i.e. 858,000 people, to calculate the number of unborn children for the 1991–2025 period (34 years), we get the following numbers: 29,172,000 (858,000 × 34) unborn children, of whom 25,602,000 would be children of Russian nationality. The number of unborn children of Russian nationality outside the Russian Federation would be 10,438,000 (i.e., (1,060,000 − 753,000) × 34).
If we add the numbers for unborn children and those who died, we get the following: 60,532,000 (31,360,000 + 29,172,000) lives were lost in the Russian Federation from 1991 to 2025 due to: 1) missed births that should have happened but did not; 2) premature deaths (killings, suicides, disease, alcoholism, drug overdoses, poor nutrition, poor health care, poor or no housing, poor economic conditions, etc.); and 3) natural deaths (a relatively small number compared to premature deaths). Of these, 48,882,000 are people of Russian nationality in the Russian Federation alone, and over 10,438,000 are in Post‑Soviet independent states, making a total loss of at least 59,320,000 people of Russian nationality from 1991 to 2025.
| Russian population loss in post‑Soviet Russia during the period from 1991 to 2025 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Countries | Unborn Children | Premature Deaths | Total Loss | Combined Total Loss |
| Russian Federation | 29,172,000 | 31,360,000 | 60,532,000 | 70,970,000 |
| Post-Soviet Independent States | 10,438,000 | unknown | 10,438,000 | |
The above numbers are for people of Russian nationality, and if we take into account all former republics of the former Soviet Union, then the total loss becomes over 109,730,000 (i.e., 70,970,000 + ((2,200,000 − 1,060,000) × 34)), without taking into account premature deaths in Post‑Soviet independent states, which should be between 10–20 million. Thus, the treacherous policies of Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost
and perestroika
, which led to the demise of the former Soviet Union; Boris Yeltsin’s so‑called democratization
of Russia, which led to the complete criminalization of Russia and the stealing of all assets owned by 290 million Soviet people by a couple dozen oligarchs; and the power vertical
of Putin’s oligarchic regime, were carried out at the cost of over 120 million lives of former Soviet people, of whom at least 71 million are people of Russian nationality.
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All national wealth stolen from their countrymen and now privately owned by Russian oligarchs and their cronies in the Russian government made them all so dizzy from success
that for the last 25 years they can’t seem to get out of their euphoric condition and can’t seem to grasp (actually, these monsters and traitors simply do not care) that in the process of enriching themselves they have annihilated over 60 million of their countrymen (and continue to annihilate) in the worst and most treacherous genocide that ever happened on this planet…
According to the constitution of the former Soviet Union, the country’s entire national wealth — i.e., land with all its natural resources and infrastructure — belonged to the Soviet people, and the Soviet people were and still are its rightful owners. Not to mention that the Soviet people not only built all that national wealth, but they protected it by sacrificing tens of millions of lives during World War I, the Civil War, and World War II. In the 1980s and 1990s, small groups of traitors and thieves in the Soviet government, headed by Mikhail Gorbachev, and then in the Russian government, headed by Boris Yeltsin, decided that they could simply take all national wealth and assets from the Soviet people and transfer them into their private ownership. Having built nothing and living like parasites, all those thieves (i.e., criminal Russian government officials and oligarchs) are insinuating that they are better managers of stolen assets than the Soviet people ever were, while all these thieves have ever done is hire huge numbers of business managers and advisers from abroad and pay them multimillion salaries (in US dollars and euros) with stolen money. As for the former Soviet people, who were and still are the rightful owners of all that national wealth stolen from them in the 1990s by their criminal government officials and oligarchs: in the 1980s or 1990s they should have fired their entire government and hired the best business managers and political advisers from abroad, paid them the same multimillion salaries that oligarchs now pay, and enjoyed the perks of national wealth ownership — and the people of Russia and the former Soviet Union can still do it.
To understand what really happened in the Soviet Union, imagine that 70 years ago your grandparents founded a private business in your country (e.g., the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, etc.), and through vision, hard work, and devotion your grandparents and parents grew that business into a successful multibillion-dollar company with hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenues. Then your corrupt government officials and their business representatives
decided that you were a bad owner and bad manager and that they could do a better job with your assets than you do; without asking, they took your company from you for 0.1–1% of its real value, took your private land, real estate, and entire infrastructure, and made it all their own — and you did not even get that 0.1–1% because the government took it too. Now imagine that the same thing happened to all private companies in your entire country: all small, medium, and large businesses were taken over (for 0.1–1% of their real value) by your corrupt government officials and their helpers (e.g., oligarchs), including all land, buildings, and infrastructure, into their private ownership; then, in various forms, most of the assets were transferred abroad, leaving former owners and their families with nothing, i.e., with no means of support or survival. This is exactly what happened to the people of the Soviet Union, who were and still are the rightful owners of everything in their former country but were robbed in broad daylight by their criminal government officials and oligarchs.
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Moscow, as the capital of the former Soviet Union and the Russian Federation, including its selected inhabitants, always enjoyed special
treatment and status, but not as much as during the post‑Soviet period. In fact, during Yeltsin’s and Putin’s oligarchic regimes, Moscow, with its fake façade of prosperity for the entire country, was turned into the so‑called Potemkin village, where, using assets stolen in the 1990s from the former Soviet people, oligarchs, government officials of all levels, and successful
businesspeople (primarily relatives and close friends of government officials and oligarchs) surrounded themselves with privately owned $50–100 million custom‑built palaces in Moscow’s elite areas and suburbs, including custom‑built elite mansions for $10–30 million apiece for family members and lovers; custom‑designed and armored luxury vehicles (e.g., Bentley, Rolls‑Royce, Aston Martin, Maybach, Maserati, Ferrari); custom private jets; custom designer clothes and jewelry from the world’s top couturiers; expensive art collections; etc. Without concern for the costs of goods and services (after all, they did not have to earn that money and just took
it from their countrymen), they spent so much money that Moscow became a magnet for numerous foreign businesses — construction companies, commercial and investment banks, automakers, boutiques, restaurants, spas, etc. It is no wonder that German automakers are doing great, because many Russian government officials, senators, or businesspeople, including their family members, who cannot afford customized armored Bentleys, Rolls‑Royces, Maybachs, Maseratís, or Ferraris, drive S‑Class Mercedes‑Benzes, or Audi A8, R8 and S8 models, or BMW 7 Series armored luxury vehicles, which cost from $200,000 to $1 million. It is not surprising that Moscow has the highest number in the world of luxury vehicles on its streets; with flashy storefronts and unbelievably high prices, the capital of Russia has become one of the most expensive cities in the world.
If anyone asks about the fall of the Soviet Union and what happened during privatization
and mortgage auctions
of the 1990s — and how a few selected people suddenly
became ultra‑rich (the oligarchs, previous leaders of the former Soviet Union, previous and current leaders of the former Soviet republics, all previous and current government officials, including their family members — collectively, thieves
, all of whom politically and financially benefited from the demise of the Soviet Union) — they do not like to talk about it and instead brazenly say that it was a tragedy
. The fact is that, starting with Mikhail Gorbachev and ending with Vladimir Putin, all their previous and current cabinet members, including other previous and current government officials, in one way or another abused the system and their power to enrich themselves and their families at the expense of their countrymen, and have, in their names and in the names of their children, grandchildren, spouses, lovers, and private businesses, tens of millions — and some even hundreds of millions and billions — of dollars in stolen assets. Not to mention that their children and grandchildren occupy top executive positions in various state and privately owned companies, while 91% of the Russian population, whom they sacrificed, cheated, and robbed under the pretense of democratic
reforms (i.e., pensioners, workers, teachers, scientists, doctors, etc.), are living below or at the poverty level:
13% are extremely poor with incomes below 4,600 rubles per month ($145/mo or $1,740/yr);
28% are below the poverty line with incomes from 4,600 to 7,500 rubles per month ($145–$250/mo or $1,740–$3,000/yr);
39% are at the poverty line with incomes from 7,500 to 15,000 rubles per month ($250–$500/mo or $3,000–$6,000/yr);
11% are slightly above the poverty line with incomes from 15,000 to 25,000 rubles per month ($500–$830/mo or $6,000–$10,000/yr).
This means that 114 million people in Russia (i.e., 80% of the total 143 million) do not have enough money to buy, every day, one loaf of bread and a bottle of milk while also paying housing and utilities; it is not enough to support a family and raise even one child, even if both parents work full‑time and bring into the family up to $1,000/mo. The remaining 9% of the population who live above the poverty line live primarily in Moscow, Russia’s capital, and are included in its population of 24 million people (16.8% of the total population, which includes illegal aliens and people in Moscow suburbs). Of 143 million people in Russia, only 1 million people (0.7% of the total population) have incomes over $30,000/yr; this includes 440,000 people with incomes over $100,000/yr and 160,000 people with incomes over $1,000,000/yr, meaning 400,000 people have incomes between $30,000/yr and $100,000/yr. Some of Moscow’s high‑earners
, according to Forbes[2], are top managers of Russia’s largest companies, who have incomes between $5 million and $30 million per year, while the average Russian family (i.e., 130 million people out of the total 143 million) would have to work and save for 3,000 to 15,000 years to match the money some government officials and top managers pay themselves in a single year. It is worth mentioning that average salaries in Moscow are 6–10 times higher than in the rest of the country, and although the population in Moscow and its suburbs accounts for one‑sixth of Russia’s total population, Moscow is not the whole Russia; it is unfair to the rest of Russia’s people, who face costs of living as high as those in Moscow but receive significantly lower salaries. No wonder the majority of Russians do not like Moscow and its inhabitants, with all their flashy shows, live concerts, and other entertainment
events, which are designed to keep Muscovites happy but are, in reality, more of a marauders’ feast in time of plague than entertainment for the whole of Russia.
For comparison, in the Soviet Union — before Mikhail Gorbachev with his glasnost
and perestroika
— wages depended on the level of education and position and varied from a minimum of 70 rubles to a maximum of 500–800 rubles per month, with the average wage around the country being 150–180 rubles per month. At that time, 1 ruble was worth $4–5, and average Soviet people could afford to buy with their wages 10–30 times more goods and services than the average Russian can buy today. Wages of top government officials, top managers, celebrities, and leading doctors and scientists in the Soviet Union were only 3–5 times higher than wages of average Soviet people; if someone was getting substantially more money, it meant they were stealing, and when caught, tried, and found guilty, such people were severely punished by the government — all their assets were confiscated and some were executed for inflicting large‑scale damage on the state and its people. As strange as it may sound, in the totalitarian
and supposedly unhappy
Soviet Union (population over 290 million), with its brutal treatment of thieves and traitors, there were no jobless people, no homeless people, no guns, no crime, no gangs, no drug addicts, no prostitution, no human trafficking, no slave trade, no HIV‑infected people, no millionaires, no poor; all types of education and medical care were free, and government housing rent with utilities was no more than 10–15% of the average wage. In other words, as ordinary Soviet people said, commies in the government were living in complete communism,
because everything for them and their families was free, while the rest of the people were living in socialism,
because they had to work and provide for commies in the government. It is truly ironic that the evil
communist system of the former Soviet Union was replaced by a thousand times more evil pseudo‑democratic criminal oligarchic regime of ruthless killers and thieves, who in the last 25 years annihilated over 60 million of their countrymen so a couple of hundred greedy top‑level commies, who suddenly
turned into capitalists in the late 1980s and 1990s, could get super rich. Having almost everything at their disposal and free in the Soviet Union, but not personally owning it, was not enough for them; therefore they betrayed their country and its people, robbed their countrymen, and forced 91% of them (i.e., 130 million people) into poverty, economic occupation, and genocide.
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Not long ago, central Russian media proudly
declared that 101 Russian oligarchs, who own
one-third of all Russia’s assets, were listed on Forbes’s list of billionaires, and Russia was in fourth place by the number of US-dollar billionaires after the United States, Germany and Great Britain. Among cities, Moscow, the capital of Russia, was in first place (third time in five years) with its 79 billionaires. To begin with, it is a shame that Forbes actually keeps listing Russian
oligarchs and their
billions of dollars, because everybody knows, including Forbes, that those oligarchs did not earn their
money, since that money was stolen from the Soviet people during the criminal privatization
of the 1990s. Shockingly, the fact that over 60 million lives were sacrificed so that a couple of hundred oligarchs could take into their private ownership the hard-earned assets of the former Soviet people does not seem to concern Western countries, which would investigate and give 150-year prison sentences (with confiscation of all assets) to their Madoffs for stealing billions of dollars from their own citizens, yet in an open demonstration of double standards would welcome Russian oligarchs with their hundreds of billions of dollars stolen from the former Soviet people. Apparently the saying money has no smell
is true, because the smell of blood, sweat, tears and suffering of over 150 million people of the former Soviet Union — whose lives were sacrificed (i.e., over 60 million lives lost in the 25 years after Gorbachev’s perestroika, and another 90 million lives in total lost in World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Civil War, World War II, and due to communist repressions, executions, famine, etc., from 1917 to 1991) — in order to build and protect the wealth that in the 1990s was stolen from their children and grandchildren by Russia’s criminal government and oligarchs, does not repel Western countries, their governments or businesses. For example, thousands of high-end real estate properties in England, located in central London — i.e., in Kensington, Chelsea, including Mayfair, Knightsbridge and Notting Hill — and in the United States (New York City, Miami, Los Angeles, Palm Beach, etc.), with prices ranging from $5–10 million to $100–300 million, were purchased with money stolen from the Soviet people. Similar high-end properties were also purchased in France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, etc. Of course, it is one thing when highly paid actors, singers, athletes or businesspeople buy high-end properties for $5–10 million or more with money they earned honestly and through hard work; it is another thing when oligarchs, former or current government officials from Russia or former Soviet republics, their family members, or representatives, readily pay up to $100–300 million — sums they could not possibly have legitimately earned during their lifetimes — and buy various prime properties in Europe and the United States. In addition, it is sickening to see how various Western celebrities — politicians, actors and singers, and Russia’s celebrities
too — for a $1–2 million fee readily attend, give speeches at, or sing at corporate events and birthday parties organized by Russian oligarchs and criminal government officials at private mansions in Moscow, London, New York, etc., and even on private islands. It is doubtful that those celebrities, especially from Russia, do not know that the money they are being paid is drenched in the blood, sweat, tears and suffering of millions from the former Soviet Union, yet they shamelessly accept it anyway.
Turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to the fact that 91% of Russia’s population lives in poverty, Russian government officials continue the economic genocide of Russia’s population, which already cost over 32.5 million lives in the past 21 years, while they act as if their country is the richest in the world. Strangely enough, Russia has paid and continues to pay all its foreign debts, which, in combination with old debts of the former Soviet Union — including debts of tsarist Russia — exceeded $100 billion, while at the same time it has written off over $86 billion to debtors such as Vietnam, Ethiopia, Mongolia, Syria, Algeria, Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq and North Korea. It appears that Russian government officials, who are so concerned
about the well-being and survival of their nation, decided without asking their countrymen that Russia could afford
to forgive all debts owed to it by poor
countries, yet pay in full all Russia’s, the former Soviet Union’s and even tsarist Russia’s debts, including billions in interest. But handling Russia’s debt situation is not the only example of savvy
economic policy by Russian government officials. For example, Russia decided to hold its 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, a Black Sea resort area that rarely has snow; the government decided to spend close to $100 billion — almost half of it stolen — to build ski slopes and tracks with refrigerant cooling surfaces and artificial snow, while over half of Russia’s vast territory is year-round covered with natural snow and ice. Besides spending tens and hundreds of millions on buying numerous mansions and other luxury items for themselves, their family members and numerous lovers — primarily in Europe, the United States and Asia — other examples of money well spent
by Russian government officials and oligarchs include: 1) wasting another hundred billion dollars on the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia and $1.3 billion on building a single soccer stadium in Saint Petersburg, again stealing at least half the money in the process; 2) wasting $2 billion on police reform initiated under Dmitry Medvedev, which ended in failure and amounted mainly to a name change from Militsiya
to Police
while leaving the force and its leadership as corrupt as ever; it is therefore not surprising that the new mayor of Moscow, Sergey Sobyanin, called Moscow the most corrupt city he had ever seen. Interestingly, having drawn conclusions from the events of the August 18, 1991 coup in the Soviet Union, when Militsiya, KGB and the Soviet Army became politically divided because officers were unpaid for months and became unhappy with the system, the oligarchic Russian government is now systematically paying higher-than-average salaries to police and army officers across the country (between 90–120 thousand rubles per month, or $3,000–$4,000/month), so that during an uprising the police and army would not turn against the ruling regime as they did during the 1991 coup; 3) wasting money on purchasing the latest iPads for the State Duma and widespread use of iPhones and iPads in government — starting with the president and members of his cabinet — even though these devices are not secure and have built-in GPS locators, making them inappropriate for government use; 4) wasting $1 billion on installing webcams in every polling place during the 2012 presidential elections in Russia so the whole world could see how honest
the presidential elections were, while unwillingly showing how poor much of Russia and its citizens are in comparison to Moscow and a couple of other large cities; this was visible not only from polling-place interiors in different regions, but from how people were dressed and how they looked. If anything, the Russian government and oligarchs should be ashamed of what they have done to their countrymen, but it is obvious that they do not feel any guilt at all, because they have no conscience. Otherwise they would not betray their country and its people, and would not watch while over 60 million of their countrymen were annihilated and disappeared into oblivion as the oligarchs grew richer.
As for the former Soviet elite — represented by a post-war generation and a new breed of top-level politicians, military figures, managers, economists, writers, singers, actors, and people close to them — after the Soviet Union’s demise they turned into the so-called new Russian elite and now like to be called the beau monde
. They are the actual cause behind the troubles of the former Soviet Union and present Russia. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, approximately 2–4 thousand representatives from these ranks, including the oligarchs, chose to betray their country and its people and orchestrated the collapse of the system and the country because they saw in the demise of the Soviet Union an opportunity to enrich themselves at the expense of the Soviet people; like vultures, they started ripping apart their fallen country, trying to get a bigger share of valuable assets that belonged to all Soviet people, and they killed anyone who stood in their way. It is no secret that these vultures are the oligarchs and criminal government officials. After the vultures privatized what they wanted, they were joined by jackals — the lower-level former Soviet elite, currently represented by the so-called Russian beau monde
, who received the crumbs
; these multimillion-dollar crumbs were enough for them to lead lavish lifestyles for the rest of their lives, including those of their children and grandchildren, all in plain sight of the very people they betrayed and helped to rob. The rest of the former Soviet elite, although they did not participate in the robbery, also betrayed their country and its people because they remained silent and did not attempt to save either their country or its people, with the exception of members of the State Committee on the State of Emergency (Государственный комитет по чрезвычайному положению, ГКЧП) and their supporters, whose August 18, 1991 coup attempt misfired because it was directed only against Mikhail Gorbachev, while it should have been directed against both Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin and their supporters; not to mention that the coup attempt itself was too late, as by the time it happened the Soviet Army and many other branches of power were already divided into pro-Soviet and pro-Democratic
camps. As for ordinary Soviet people, they blindly trusted their democratic
government and naively believed that Boris Yeltsin really wanted to build a better future for them and their children, so they did not expect betrayal and did not see it coming; they paid a heavy price for it. In the past 25 years the vultures and jackals have been enjoying and celebrating their success
, but it is a feast in time of plague, on the bones of over 60 million of their countrymen whom they ruthlessly sacrificed in the worst economic genocide, which is still going on and will bring an end to the entire Russian nation within the next 40–50 years if it is not stopped immediately.
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The opposition
, with its mink revolution
, as well as the oligarchic regime’s fight
against corruption in Russia, is a parody, because in both cases they pretend to do something while constantly appearing in the news and on television. Needless to say, the current opposition movement
in Russia does not have a clearly defined goal or program that would resonate with average Russians, and the opposition’s slogans Russia without Putin
, Honest Elections
and Back to Democracy
are ridiculous. Every Russian knows that there was never democracy in Russia — not in the 1980s, not in the 1990s, not in the 2000s, and definitely not now; therefore, in terms of democracy there is nothing to go back to. Russians also know that replacing Putin with another puppet of the oligarchic regime would not solve Russia’s problems, because it would not change the established oligarchic system with its destructive economic, political and demographic course. Not to mention that nowadays it is impossible to have honest elections not just in Russia but anywhere in this world, even in Western democracies — or, better said, pseudo-democracies — which in reality are just dictatorships of the wealthy. Therefore it is no wonder that average Russians do not support the current opposition, especially after the Russian people were betrayed in the late 1980s and early 1990s when they blindly supported treacherous government officials and calls for a democratic
Russia, which ended in the robbery of Russia’s national assets known as oligarchic privatization
. Nowadays Russians are not going to fall into the same trap again because they have already seen it all — how Russian oligarchs are ruling
Russia with money they stole from Soviet people in the 1990s.
When Russia’s opposition talks about thieves in the current government and in the United Russia party and points to their luxury cars and multimillion-dollar mansions but always avoids talking about Yeltsin, privatization
and the oligarchs — i.e., how they robbed Russia and its people — it sends the wrong message to Russians; it indicates that the opposition does not consider Yeltsin and the oligarchs to be thieves and thinks that in the 1990s Russia was a true democracy
and that oligarchs and Yeltsin’s government were honest
people. The fact that the current Russian opposition is not raising issues that are important for the survival of Russia and its people, and that those issues are simply being avoided
, speaks volumes and indicates that the current opposition
movement is some sort of project
designed to play the role of a pressure-release valve in the boiling cooker
, so the most active parts of the disappointed population can release
their anger and frustrations against the current regime without threatening its existence, thus helping to keep the situation under control. More and more members of the current opposition are starting to realize that they are being taken as fools. The fact that some opposition leaders are intensely popularized in the West while others who were caught planning terrorist attacks in Russia enjoy their freedom and continue to lead
the opposition, whereas a couple of girls who sang a short song in a Russian church asking St. Mary’s help to kick out
Putin received two years in jail, are clear indicators that the current opposition movement in Russia is a sham and a special project
whose primary goal is to save the current criminal oligarchic regime while putting on a show for the masses with a well-known bad cop, good cop
routine.
A revealing fact about the leaders of the current opposition movement is that all of them are representatives of the so-called Russian beau monde
, and some even worked under Yeltsin; like everybody else, they failed to stand up for what was right and betrayed their country and its people. In addition, with annual multimillion-dollar incomes, some opposition leaders never lived in poverty because their families directly or indirectly benefited from the demise of the Soviet Union. It is also doubtful that the remaining opposition leaders who do not have annual multimillion-dollar incomes are truly living in poverty — not when they or their children buy designer clothes and own villas in London, Miami, etc. Moreover, they have turned the opposition movement into their private business, receiving financial support measured in millions of dollars from various sources inside and outside Russia. Therefore these people will never be able to understand what it means to live honestly, and they will never be accepted by the 91% of Russia’s population who live in poverty and are trying to make ends meet. It is obvious that current opposition leaders
were volunteered
on purpose so the poor
majority would reject and not accept them, thus diminishing the size of the opposition. The bad news for the organizers of the current opposition project
is that the real opposition in Russia has not yet risen, and when new leaders from the poor begin to appear, nothing will be able to stop it because the whole country will be behind them.
Finally, if the Russian opposition were to make the following demands, it would gain the support of almost the entire population of Russia, especially the 91% who were robbed and now live in poverty:
- Demand that the government provide full details about all
privatized
national assets in the former Soviet Union and abroad that belonged to Soviet people beforeprivatization
, including privatized land and smaller assets (buildings, equipment, etc.). Full details should include: who was the first private owner of each asset and when it was privatized; for how much each asset was privatized; the source of the privatization money for each asset; for how much and when each asset was resold; how many times each asset was resold and when; what happened to the money from each sale; who the private owners were for each asset; who the current owner is and under what conditions — Russian people deserve to know all theirheroes-thieves
ofprivatization
. - Demand that all foreign governments arrest assets of Russian oligarchs and criminal Russian government officials (or people related to them or representing them) — any asset originating from 1985 to the present with a value in excess of $50,000 should be flagged and thoroughly investigated — and return all those assets (bank accounts, investments, real estate, jewelry, art collections, businesses, sports clubs, planes, yachts, vehicles, etc.), including interest, to the rightful owners: the people of the former Soviet Union.
- Demand that all foreign governments return with interest all the trillions stolen over the last 21 years from the former Soviet people, when oligarchs, criminal Russian governments and governments of former Soviet republics used and continue to use countries of the former Soviet Union as
inflation dumps
for foreign economies. Note: all returns must be made either with gold bullion or real goods at their original prices in each year — exactly as they were received. - Petition the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice to help prosecute for genocide of over 60 million people of the former Soviet Union the following individuals:
- 1) Mikhail Gorbachev and all members of his former cabinet who designed and introduced
glasnost
andperestroika
into the former Soviet Union’s political system; 2) All members of Boris Yeltsin’s former cabinets (for his first and second terms as president of Russia). Postmortem, apply labels of traitor and criminal and guilty of genocide of over 60 million people of the former Soviet Union to the following deceased former Russian government officials: Boris Yeltsin, Viktor Chernomyrdin, etc., with all consequences — arrest and confiscation of all assets, cancellation and recall of all government awards, cancellation and recall of all monetary awards (with interest), cancellation of all pensions to remaining family members and recall with interest of all money to the former Soviet people, removal and modification of recognition records, removal of monuments, removal of printed recognition books, etc.; 3) Dmitry Medvedev and all members of his former and current cabinets; 4) Vladimir Putin and all members of his former and current cabinets. - Petition the Nobel Prize Committee to strip Mikhail Gorbachev of his Nobel Peace Prize, strike his name from all records of the Nobel Prize Committee and its organizations, and recall his medal and monetary award (with interest) so a more deserving person could be awarded it in the future.
- Conduct a public referendum and, if the majority of the Russian population agrees, publicly cremate the body of Vladimir Lenin. Note: if an embalmed body were buried, it could be stolen and then sold and resold to collectors or even used for cloning purposes. Finally bury his ashes at one of Moscow’s cemeteries, but not near the Kremlin wall (i.e., fulfill the wishes of his wife; he must be laid to rest and given a burial like any other human being). Completely remove the cemetery with the remains of Soviet leaders (including the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier) near the Kremlin wall and rebury them at the same cemetery where Lenin’s ashes will be buried; remove Lenin’s mausoleum and build in its place on Red Square an open memorial (with Kremlin guards) in memory of 210 million people of the former Soviet Union whose lives were sacrificed (i.e., over 120 million lives lost from 1988 to 2025 due to the genocide that started with Gorbachev’s perestroika and continues to this day, and another 90 million lives lost in World War I, the Civil War, World War II, and due to repressions, executions, famine, etc., from 1917 to 1988), so it will be a constant reminder to future generations that political betrayal, inaction and weakness are as bad as dictatorships.
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The loss of over 120 million lives of former Soviet people from 1991 to 2025 is 4.8 times higher than the losses that the former Soviet Union experienced during World War II, which was an openly declared war by Nazi Germany, in which the Soviet Union lost 24,620,400 of its people, of whom 8,860,400 were military personnel and 15,760,000 were civilians — i.e., women, children, and the elderly. Unfortunately, what happened in the Soviet Union, its former republics, and the Russian Federation during the last 25 years was not an openly declared war — it was a silent and sneaky war and genocide against its own people, started by Gorbachev and then continued by Yeltsin’s and Putin’s criminal oligarchic regimes, and this silent war and genocide is still raging on…
In 1991, according to a prognosis by the United Nations, by 2050 Russia’s population should have grown to over 200 million people, but now the same United Nations, including the U.S. Census, predict that by 2050 Russia’s population will be significantly aged and will become unsustainable in terms of the active population; i.e., 40% of people will be over 60 years old and the total population will drop to 100–110 million. Even the aforementioned adjusted prognosis for Russia’s catastrophic population drop (due to targeted genocide against the Russian people) appears to be overoptimistic, because if we take into consideration that under Russia’s political and economic course in the last 35 years Russia lost over 71 million people of Russian nationality (i.e., 50% of the world’s Russian population), along with over 20,000 Russian villages and 3,000 small towns and cities, and that by 2025 one fifth (i.e., 20% or 28.6 million) of Russia’s population would be over 65 years (with average life expectancy in Russia 60 years for males and 72 years for females), and that currently in Russia there are over 18 million drug users (13% of the total population, of whom 4 million are heroin addicts), over 42 million alcoholics (30% of the total population), 5–6 million homeless people, 3–4 million street children, over 1 million people with HIV infections, close to 1 million people who have committed suicide, etc., then by 2050 the size of Russia’s total population would be around 40–50 million people, of whom around 5–8 million would be people of Russian nationality, and one half of all those remaining people would be over 60 years old and the other half would be degenerates — not to mention that most probably by that time Russia would be occupied, broken into pieces, and divided into spheres of influence, where Asian powers would control the former Russian territories in the East (i.e., beyond the Ural Mountains) and Western powers would control the former Russian territories in the West, making former Russia a natural-resources colony.
If the former President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, was found responsible for the killing of 148 Iraqi Shiites in 1982 and was executed by hanging on November 5, 2006, it will be interesting to see what type of punishment will be devised for those who are found responsible for the genocide of over 120 million Soviet people, when the remaining population of the former Soviet Union, and especially of the Russian Federation, finally wake up from their lethargic and nightmarish dream and realize that they are being ruthlessly exterminated by their criminal governments and oligarchic regimes, which are desperately trying to “speed up” the “extermination” process of all remaining witnesses who could still remember how they were robbed and could claim back all their stolen assets…
It is ironic and sad that a nation as great and strong as Russia, which in 1380 liberated itself after 300 years of Mongol–Tatar occupation, survived the War of 1812 with Napoleon, World War I, the Red Revolution of 1917, the civil wars of the 1920s, and World War II, and sent the first man into space, allowed the destruction of its country in 1991, succumbed to foreign economic occupation, and is being quietly
exterminated — all because of traitor politicians who betrayed their country and its people…
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- We – Colony of the USA (Interview with Mr. Evgeny Fedorov, Member of the Committee on Budget and Taxes in the State Duma of the Russian Federation) (in Russian) at http://www.lenta.ru/articles/2012/11/09/fedorov/
- Forbes editorial statement in connection with the publication of refutations by VTB (in Russian) at http://www.forbes.ru/news/214135-zayavlenie-redaktsii-forbes-v-svyazi-s-publikatsiei-oprovezheniya-vtb
- Annual Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, 25 April 2005 (official Kremlin transcript) at https://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/22931
- Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, Bush–Yeltsin, 8 December 1991 National Security Archive at https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/27272-document-9-memorandum-telephone-conversation-bush-yeltsin-december-8-1991
- U.S. State Department historical summary on the end of the Soviet Union and the Belovezh/Belavezha accords at https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/85962.htm
- United Nations: Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide overview page at https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/1948-convention
- United Nations treaty text PDF: Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide at https://treaties.un.org/doc/publication/unts/volume%2078/volume-78-i-1021-english.pdf
- United Nations Audiovisual Library note on the Genocide Convention and the meaning of Articles I and II at https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/cppcg/cppcg.html
- 1991 Soviet Union referendum results summary at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_Union_referendum
- World Bank population data for the Russian Federation at https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=RU
- IMF working paper:
The IMF and Russia in the 1990s.
at https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/30/the-imf-and-russia-in-the-1990-s-17527
December 20, 2012 (Updated on September 19, 2025)
Vadim S. Alatortsev, Ph.D.
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