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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (42430)	11/8/2008 4:20:01 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217591

Nope - the proof is that his approach worked in Poland and so many other countries. Jeffrey Sacks concept did not work in Russia because of the Varangians Rus old way of life mentality, (including Leninism) and social tradition embedded within the ruling classes and the apathy developed over the centuries under the rule of the above mentioned minority, if by the oppressive Tsarist rule or Leninism, most startling embedded in the rule of Ivan the Terrible with the establishment of the Oprichnina and the follow up rulers. To understand Russia's makeup which sprung from an old predicament, of plunder by the Varangians Rus, with the Rurik family starting as the ruling Russian class is best to relay on history. The Varangians Rus where an extreme offshoot of the Vikings, (legend has it that they where eating hallucinatory mushrooms before going to plunder or battle) who where mainly engaging in plunder, piracy and mercenary activities, and sometimes trade, and did not change their basic cultural make-up for over a millennia (now, far to many Russians, get drunk "to death" instead of eating mushrooms – with similar effect on how to perceive the world under the influence of alcohol). The old adage of what we call “Macho Men” is so obviously noticeable in Putin with his bouts of physical grandeur which has its cultural roots in the Vangarians culture. Interestingly and contrary to let say Ceausescu wife, who tried to impress the Romanians by accumulating scores of academic titles at the same time she was actually clueless. Those are two very different approaches to establish totalitarian rule and supremacy under the auspices of pretended democracy in our times and differentiate the two cultural perceptions The Vangarian Rus conquered the Slavic peoples of today’s eastern Russia, to later continue their expansionist and imperialistic expansion by “deception” of establishing inter-country agreements only to be broken and resulting in conquering wars, decimation or expulsion of the local population, in a military trust, eastward over Northern and Central Asia and into Alaska (let’s call the aspiration of the Russian today, the more modern Romans conquering their Empire who where driven by similar militant ideology an dual class mentality). The reason going east was the established kingdoms in the western and southern flanks of historic Russia, that resited and/or defeated the Russian army and not due their intellectual or military qualification. The concept of plunder and what we call mafia type activities by force is well embedded in the present and past ruling party of Russia. Last century, the Western Nations mistakenly attributed this conduct to the raise of the Communism, missing the point that the Russians called it Leninism an gross aberration of Communism very similar to the concept of labeling the Viking culture to the sect of Varangians Rus. One more point that many are missing, is that the Russian strain of Communism called Leninism and in China Maoism did not evolve peacefully like let say the Solidarity Movement in Poland or Orange Revolution in Ukraine, but by force – “proletarian” revolution which was actual classic wars with the aim of plunder of the assets of the middle class and also of the richer population with the concomitant murder of any one having an inherited right over the plundered assets or possessing the entrepreneurial spirit to start anew, under the excuse of ideological justice Presently the Russian regime is steadfastly clinging to the same concept that brought the Varangians to power only adapted to the 21st century, except the sophistication in which they eliminate and murder their critics or opponents