Abu Juwairiya
Junior Member
"I know how to kill an enemy so he doesn't make a sound... I can climb a mountain swiftly and silently and take out those who are occupying it. I am an excellent rock climber and mountaineer. I can read mountains from twigs and bushes and tell who is there and where they are hiding. I have a feel for mountains, they say it is a natural gift, but I am incapable of getting a flat. I am incapable of getting anything at all in civilian life.'
Before me is a helpless professional killer trained by the State [Russia]. There are many like him now. The State sends people off to yet another war, they live in the midst of war for years, return and do not know what peaceful life is with its law and order. They take to drinking, join gangs, become hit-men, and their new masters pay them big money to take out those they say need to be murdered in the interests of the State.
And the State? It doesn't give a damn. Under [President Vladimir] Putin it has effectively ceased to interest itself in officers who have returned from the wars. It seems as if the State is actively engaged in ensuring that there are as many highly trained professional killers in criminal gangs as possible"
(Source: Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya, 2004, P 139-140)
The author, the late Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian writer and regarded as the best investigative journalist in Russia of modern times, was fatally shot in the head in broad day light a few years later while covering a story against president Putin. Her work included exposing Russian government alliances with the mafia, Russian human rights abuses in Chechnya, the horrors of life in the Russian Army and Russian government corruption across every sphere of life, society and spectrum.
Before me is a helpless professional killer trained by the State [Russia]. There are many like him now. The State sends people off to yet another war, they live in the midst of war for years, return and do not know what peaceful life is with its law and order. They take to drinking, join gangs, become hit-men, and their new masters pay them big money to take out those they say need to be murdered in the interests of the State.
And the State? It doesn't give a damn. Under [President Vladimir] Putin it has effectively ceased to interest itself in officers who have returned from the wars. It seems as if the State is actively engaged in ensuring that there are as many highly trained professional killers in criminal gangs as possible"
(Source: Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya, 2004, P 139-140)
The author, the late Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian writer and regarded as the best investigative journalist in Russia of modern times, was fatally shot in the head in broad day light a few years later while covering a story against president Putin. Her work included exposing Russian government alliances with the mafia, Russian human rights abuses in Chechnya, the horrors of life in the Russian Army and Russian government corruption across every sphere of life, society and spectrum.