Putin has let one of the major players in the bandit wars of the 1990s out of prison a few months early, and now this is suddenly big news.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky was one of several puppets who were hired by the KGB to pretend there were capitalism and democracy in Russia. Khodorkovsky was the most stupid among these pretty dim-witted “oligarchs”. He convinced himself that the money he’d been given was actually his and started giving himself airs of a businessman. Finally, Putin put this murderer and gangster in jail.
In the 10 years he spent in jail, Khodorkovsky kept giving money to a variety of Russian artists, writers, journalists, intellectuals, and human rights activists. In return, they created an image of him as some kind of dissident and victim of the regime. The whole thing was absolutely hilarious. The human rights organizations in Russia paid no attention to the many actual abuses committed in the country and, instead, created a huge campaign defending the billionaire’s right to lead a billionaire lifestyle in jail.
I’m guessing Khodorkovsky will now join his former employees in the UK. This is a country that harbors many gangsters who are on the run from justice in Russia. Why the UK is so intent on inviting as much of this human refuse from Russia as possible to stay is a mystery.
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