I hate Saddamych so much that there’s simply nowhere further to go. But he somehow manages to make me discover new depths of hatred in myself. Bastard. *"Gennady Troshev’s death is not a reason to speak well of him," said Sergei Kovalev, a human rights activist and board member of Memorial (a Russian human rights organization), on the air of Echo of Moscow radio, commenting on the death of the Russian president’s adviser, Colonel General Gennady Troshev, in a plane crash in Perm. In Kovalev’s view, Troshev’s actions during the war in Chechnya do not deserve approval. The activist stressed that Russia is currently pursuing a "double standards" policy: on the one hand condemning Georgia’s aggression against South Ossetia and the use of weapons of mass destruction there, while on the other justifying the war in Chechnya. "We did all of that in Chechnya, and the general in particular did it too—and, strangely enough, he is a Hero of Russia. General Troshev is one of the symbols of double standards," Kovalev said. "If, by some twist of fate, this general had been a military commander in Tbilisi, he would now be a symbol of genocide from the Kremlin’s point of view. But since he committed atrocities in Chechnya, he is therefore a Hero of Russia. That is our logic," Kovalev concluded. *http://echo.msk.ru/news/540525-echo.html I saw the link on Kashin’s blog kashin