via pavell Myth Two. The people in power in Russia are men in uniform. We have a militocracy, you see. The bloody gebnya (slang for the Soviet/Russian secret police and security services) and other military types dreaming of the revival of the Russian-Soviet Empire. On the night of August 8, the whole world had a 120% chance to see for itself that there was no militocracy, and never had been. Because in wartime, a militocracy moves toward the front line, not toward the cliffs of Beijing. It strikes, rather than meekly complaining to the global bosses. And it does not talk about the inevitable restoration of peace when the war is already sixty percent lost. *Yes, the Kremlin badly needed these myths. For our kleptocrats had to appear to the Russian people as heroic leaders from times past who, even if they stole everything that remained of Soviet power, did so only for the sake of reviving that great power and that great country. *http://www.preemniki.ru/publications/321
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