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Putin not a nice guy

Dear Editor,

Now we’re being told Putin isn’t such a bad fellow. He would never have any reason or desire to mess with our electoral process. After all George W. Bush looked in his eyes and said, “I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy; I was able to get a sense of his soul.” CIA Director Brennan said, “I looked the man (Putin) in the eye and saw… the enemy.”

With all the media hype, we tend to forget that Putin is a ‘stone cold killer,’ possibly a serial killer! You may have forgotten the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in London with plutonium pellets or the more recent attempted murder of Ukranian president Victor Yushchenko with dioxin. But these are just the tip of the iceberg; Putin has been involved in the murder and/or disappearance of numerous journalist and opposition leaders for years. The most recent killing was of Boris Nemstov, a Russian physicist and outspoken critic of Putin, shot four times on the steps of the Kremlin. His daughter is now in fear of her life and has fled the country.

Even a rock band critical of him isn’t safe from persecution. Members of (a Russian punk rock band) spent three years in a force labor camp subjected to beatings and sixteen hour works days. Global outcry finally secured their release.

Putin, former head of the KGB, came to power by dubious means and he’s a throwback to the years of Lenin. Putin is not a nice guy!

P.S. There were some people in this country (including Charles Lindberg) not so long ago thought Hitler was a nice guy!

Allan L. Gustafson,

Warren

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