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Conspiracy of the doomed

We are living in a country infected with the KGB bacillus. The number of state security agents infiltrating the government structures has reached threatening proportions. Political analysts with a good disposition are claiming that for the most part they are the «former» ones, but even Putin once said that «a KGB agent can never be 'former'».Hence, we are talking about the people who are continuing to operate as state security agents (actually, how much of «security»? ... since Lubyanka has been concentrating on self-security for quite a while). These people are maintaining the most active and close contacts with the power structures, and the main thing is that they are the bearers (and oftentimes active spreaders) of that specific «power» ideology, which is the offspring of anti-democratic and pretty narrow-minded mentality, typical for the vast majority of the ones who came out of the KGB.As matter of fact, it's not as much of a point, and not the only point of significant consolidation of power of one political clan (that has ties and common carrer with the acting president, as well as common political interests and a certain degree of compromising materials), as actual monopolization of power (notorious Putin's «vertical line of power») by the influential group of the ones who came from the KGB.In order to substantiate my words and in order to give the readers the slightest idea about the scope of that phenomenon, I deem it necessary to give you a list (in spite of the big volume of the quote) of the KGB agents who settled in the Russian government structures. I would like to stress that I'm only talking about the officials who formally left «the office»... but who are actually faithful to Putin's precept «not to be former ones».This list was published in the «Novaya Gazeta». This list will be expanding in the nearest future (the Lubyanka conveyor is producing more and more new hot-hearted and cold-headed officials with very clean hands).PUTIN, Vladimir – President of the Russian Federation, KGB ColonelADMINISTRATION, SECURITY COUNCIL

IVANOV, Viktor, - Deputy Chairman of Presidential Administration on Staff Issues. Deputy Director of the FSB (Federal Security Bureau/Service – former KGB) in 1999-2000.

SECHIN, Igor, - Deputy Chairman of Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation (RF). During the Soviet era he used to work in Mozambique under the auspices of TechnoExport (officially as a Portuguese translator).OSIPOV, Vladimir, - Chief of Human Resources of the President of the Russian Federation. Former official of Central Body of the KGB of the USSR.PORSHNEV, Igor, - Chief of Informational Administration of the President. Was employed by the foreign broadcasting department at the State TV and Radio of the USSR, then he worked in India under the guise of a journalist.SOLTAGANOV, Vyacheslav, - Deputy Secretary of Security Council of the Russian Federation. Came from the border patrol troops of the KGB of the USSR.HEADS OF THE FEDERATION SUBJECTSZYAZIKOV, Murat, - President of the Republic of Ingishetia. Since January 1996 till January 2002 – Deputy Chief of FSB Department of Astrakhan Province (Oblast), Russia.KULAKOV, Vladimir, - Governor (head of the Administartion) of Voronezh Province (Oblast). Chief of FSB Department in Voronezh Province.

MASLOV, Viktor, - Governor (head of the Administration) of Smolensk Province. Chief of FSB Department in Smolensk Province.

GOVERNMENT, MINISTRIES, DEPARTMENTS

IVANOV, Sergei, - Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation. During the Soviet era he used to work at the State Political Department of the KGB.

CHERNENKO, Andrei, - Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs – Director of Migration Service. Former chief of Central Organizational Council of Russia's Ministry of Security.

TRUBNIKOV, Vyacheslav, - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. Former chief of South Asia Department of KGB of the USSR.

SAFONOV, Anatoly, - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. Former chief of the Krasnoyarsk Region (Krai) KGB Department.

DEMIN, Yuri, - First Deputy Minister of Justice. Former senior representative of KGB Administration of «Oktyabrsky») District, part Moscow and Moscow Province KGB Department.

YELIZAROV, Alexander, - Deputy Minister of Justice. Former employee of the KGB of the USSR.

SIDORENKO, Yevgeny (Eugene), - Deputy Minister of Justice (in charge of registering political parties and social organizations). Former employee of the KGB of the USSR.

KOTELNIKOV, Anatoly, - Deputy Minister of Nuclear Industries of the Russian Federation. Former Chief of FSB Department of Yaroslavl Province, Russia.

KOZLOV, Vladimir, - Deputy Minister of the Press, TV and Radio Broadcasting and Mass Media. Former employee of State Political Department of KGB of the USSR.

MOSHKOV, Gennady, - Deputy Minister of Transportaion. Former (1999) Chief of FSB Department of Kaliningrad Province, Russia (former Konigsberg, East Prussia, Germany).

NEGODOV, Nikolai, - Deputy Minister of Transportaion. Former First Deputy Chief of FSB Department in city of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Province.

STRZHALKOVSKY, Vladimir, - Deputy Minister of Economic Development. Former employee of KGB of the USSR.

MAKAROV, Vladimir, - First Deputy Chairman of State Customs Committee (SCC). Former Deputy Chief of Human Resources of KGB of the USSR.

LOBZENKO, Leonid, - First Deputy Chairman of State Customs Committee (SCC). Former employee of State Political Department.

MEZHAKOV, Igor, - Deputy Chairman of State Customs Committee (SCC). Former Deputy Director of the FSB.

VEREVKIN-ROKHALSKY, Sergei, - First Deputy Minister of Taxation and Collections. Former Chief of FSB Department of Sakhalin Province, Russia.

TSYBULEVSKY, Anatoly, - Deputy Director of Federal Service of Tax Police (FSTP). Former Chairman of the FSB Administration.

LAZOVSKY, Vladimir, - Deputy Director of Federal Service of Tax Police (FSTP). Former Deputy Chief of the KGB City Department in Rostov Province.

SEDOV, Alexei, - Deputy Director of Federal Service of Tax Police (FSTP). Former senior operative of FSB Department in city of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and Leningrad Province.

SENIN, Vladimir, - Deputy Director of Federal Service of Tax Police (FSTP). Former employee of KGB of the USSR.

GRIGORIEV, Alexander, - Director General of Russian State Reserves Agency. Former First Deputy Chief of FSB Department in St. Petersburg and Leningrad Province.

SPIRIDONOV, Alexander, - Deputy Chairman of Financial Monitoring. Former employee of KGB of the USSR.

FEDERATION COUNCIL

BYKOV, Valery, - Representative of the Administration of Kamchatka Province. Former operative of Special Department of KGB of the Black Sea Fleet.

VOLKOV, Yuri, - Representative of the Administration of Nenets Autonomous District. Served in the KGB.

GOLUBEV, Valery, - Representative of the Legislative Assembly of Leningrad Province. Since 1980 was working in the foreign intelligence, retired in the rank of lieutenant colonel.

KOSAREV, Nikolai, - Representative of Tambov Provincial Duma. Former employee of KGB of the USSR.

MARGELOV, Mikhail, - Representative of the Administration of Pskov Province. Former teacher of Arabic in the Higher School of KGB of the USSR.

UDUMBARA, Chandyr, - Chairman of the Supreme Khural (Council) of the Republic of Tuva. From 1992 to 2001 Chief of FSB Department of the Republic of Tuva.

MOROZOV, Igor, - Representative of Ryazan Provincial Duma. Served in the First Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR and in the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation.

PANTELEEV, Oleg, - Representative of the Administration of Kurgan Province. Garduated from Y. Andropov Red Banner Institute of the KGB of the USSR.

According to the Spiegel magazine (Germany), 77% of the government officials in Russia came from the security services.Political elite of the Yeltsin era (former dissidents, university teachers, economists, political scientists) has technically been removed from power, dumped on the side of the road of political life and deprived of any ways to have influence on the government. Its former representatives are in fact political outcasts of the modern Russia.«Equidistance» of the tycoons has been replaced by the hunt for the tycoons. Platon Lebedev is in jail, Khodorkovsky is clamped by the secret services and is running around, Gusinsky is fighting for his freedom... Who will ever have the heart to call these people «the elite»? Elite in jail clothes?Is that what they were dreaming of when they were naively trying to «come to an agreement with the authorities»? Or did they forget what the attempts to come to an agreement with an interrogator in Lubyanka cellars may lead to?

Bolshevists from «Lenin's Guard» tried to come to an agreement with Stalin's butchers (life in exchange for testimony). They would confess at Stalin's trials and give all testimony the court needed. Every single one of them. And they were still executed by a firing squad.Maybe the tycoons will buy a little bit of life for themselves, if they turn into moneybags for Putin's clan? And what's next? Everything according to the scenario: exposure, confession, trial...How did we visualize a conspiracy to take over the power? How did we visualize a coup d'etats? Tanks on the streets, patrols on the squares, steel voices over the radio, The Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky's ballet) shown on TV over and over, silent pauses on TV screens...In the novel of C.S. Lewis titled «The Screwtape Letters» the main character, - an old demon, a know-it-all in temptations, was writing to his student, a young demon, that the only road that leads to Hell for sure is the one that does not have too steep of a slope. A road to Hell must be smooth... Looks like the ones from Lubyanka have learned the demon philosophy real good. And they are pretty close to success... But!But, oh KGB agents, what would you need the power for? Are your own tubs too small for you? All of you are empty on the inside. You have no ideology. No ideology whatsoever. Even any raw, stupid, unreasoned, dull and criminal ideology – not any kind of ideology. You have no political or economic program at all. You have no plans of transforming the country (even by using the Stalin-Lysenko method of growing the new kind of people: Homo Sovieticus).You have nothing. Nothing except for craving for profits and desire to «have everything at once». But even that doesn't seem to be ideology even on the scale of a rehab for mentally retarded juveniles.Your banner is «developed Putinism», i.e. many years of stagnation, countless redistribution of power and financial flows, talentless PR campaigns and just as talentless wars in the Caucasus... Emptiness and blood, blood and emptiness.Any conspiracy that you plot is conspiracy of the doomed, however successful or efficient it may seem. In the historical future you are doomed to defeat. You have moved to the Kremlin. But your hearts still remained in the Lubyanka cellars. And as you know, there is no way out of those cellars...Alexander Uvarov, Kavkaz-Center