After the recent tragedy of the Perm club fire caused the death of over 150 lives, some people suggested that Russia human life is treated as cheap in Russia. I cannot really discount this claim as a blatant Russophobic statement when the Russian media is not capable of sober assessment of the lasting harm mass looting of the nation’s resources by the neoliberalizers cannot be conducted without falling back to convenient demonizing of the communism! The more I see how the ideology of oligarchic quick wealth making by corrupt means permeates the current Russian political discourse the more it becomes clear to me why some older Russian folks long for the days of Stalin era.

According to these "communists" RT interviewed, Yegor Gaidar's biggest mistake was that he took "JUST ONE model", namely that of the neoliberal and ultra-anti-communist ideologist Milton Friedman!?! So these "communists" in Russia, or as RT call them "Gaidar’s ideological opponents", say that he should have pursued not ONLY Friedman's ideology but maybe mix it with others. They say that the ideology is OK but it should have been applied with "smoother approach, Chinese style". Throughout the interview a lot of gentle words these "communists" and alleged "Gaidar’s ideological opponents", have for him. If these are the most radical opponents of neoliberal banditry which devastated Russia in the 1990ties then Russian oligarchs do not have to worry about their future and the property they illegally took from the nation. These people RT interviewed do not sound like communists but rather quasi-communists, just like Gaidar was. Let's not forget that Y. Gaidar became member of the Communist party in 1980 and obviously his ideals were not social justice but rather destroying the Soviet Union and then Russia itself (for the benefit of the foreign masters), and making conditions for a few to quickly rob the whole population and grab the national wealth. If there weren't V. V. Putin who put stop to these policies I think Russia wouldn't exist today, at least not within today's borders. I believe that today majority of the "communists", at least those with the most influential positions in their parties, are merely agents of the capitalist oligarchy and their puppets in the governments throughout eastern Europe. Their job is to control the masses by attenuating the people's dissatisfaction and frustrations with the political and economic policies, and just play the role of "opposition", the impotent yellers who do not actually want to change anything.

Thank you Bear. I am not Russia and I am not a communist and I am disgusted with how RT has and PR people it has selectively interviewed sought to reduce the critics of the mass looting of Russia in the 1990s-which this man played a key role, to that of the ideological opponents of progress[aka communists]. Whose interests does RT actually represents? Those of the same sick oligarchs who turned the greatest nation on earth into a sad and dying waste land or the people of Russia? I am starting to be curious that police corruption and western encirclement by NATO are not the present danger facing the Russian people.

Sorry, I meant to say that "I am starting to be curious that police corruption and western encirclement by NATO are not the only present danger facing the Russian people"