Did the Russian Leadership Wake Up Only Now?

Michael Lucas Editor

Below we are printing just two excerpts from statements that were made by the Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov last June 6, 2007 and the statement by the Russian Permanent Envoy to the United Nations Security Council, Vitaly Churkin on June 14, 2007.

How can the present leadership of Russia not know, not understand, or not realize as to what US Imperialism and NATO were planning all along? How can the present head of Russia, a former Security KGB officer, well studied in Marxism-Leninism and knowing full well the brutal history of Imperialism and its terrible world history – how can this government that has practically liquidated the former Soviet Armed forces, its defensive armaments, its liquidation of the Mir Space Station, bending backwards so much that even Uncle Sam could not understand this behaviour of servitude? The world knows that US plans to liquidate Russia and divide it into small fiefdoms, eliminate any semblance of socialism, and then divide and rule!

Can you just imagine what the wives, mothers and fathers, children and widows of the thousands that died because of the US invasion must be thinking about this kind of statement on behalf of the Russian government?

Maybe this Russian Permanent Envoy to the UN Security Council should get off his butt and his cushy-well-paying job and go to Iraq and ask the Iraqis as to what they think of his statement?

The whole world is demanding, demonstrating against US imperialism – but unfortunately the present Russian government cannot bring itself to say to the US government and demand – US GET OUT OF IRAQ!

As friends of the Soviet People since 1918 as the "Hands Off Russia Committee" – yes, we have the right to express our opinions!