fouoifjefoijvnioviow t1_jcc279q wrote on March 15, 2023 at 7:31 PM

Reply to comment by TheNewestHaven in The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of Politics of Fear - (2004) BBC, part 1 of 3 compares the rise of neoconservative movement and the radical Islamist movement [00:59:11] by Damascinos

He called Putin an anonymous bureaucrat picked by oligarchs, and completely omitted he was in fact KGB

TheNewestHaven t1_jcc7w3v wrote on March 15, 2023 at 8:06 PM

As far as I know he was not officially involved in the KGB after 1990, so when he was brought in, he was indeed a random bureaucrat. I also don't see how this omission as you see it creates a pro-putin narrative. The narrative was the oligarch's needed someone they could trust who would 'play ball' and he was the stooge they picked. He could have mentioned Putin worked at FSB (like the russian FBI post Soviet Union).

fouoifjefoijvnioviow t1_jcc95yz wrote on March 15, 2023 at 8:14 PM

I mean it's quite the omission, and the KGB ended just around that time. It's just a too-simple narrative that Putin is not some well-trenched apparatchik, but just another poor nobody stuck in the role.

Orngog t1_jccncn2 wrote on March 15, 2023 at 9:42 PM

IIRC he gets three sentences at most, or at least his life before the Kremlin does. Is that the last part of this? It's been years.

Also, I'm no expert but I seem to recall the KGB connection didn't come into play during his very rapid ascent to power? I thought it was more "being close to Yeltsin at the right time".

Edit: forgot to say, Putin is an utter waste of life. I hope he is soon removed from this earth, Slava Ukraïni!