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'..a KGB-planned operation directed at seizing power with the goal of privatizing state property..'

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'..perestroika was a KGB-planned operation directed at seizing power with the goal of privatizing state property..'

<blockquote>'..the Russian problem now has much deeper roots. “Few Western specialists on Russia are prepared to acknowledge that perestroika was a KGB-planned operation directed at seizing power with the goal of privatizing state property” or that “in August 1991 there was no liberal let alone a democratic revolution” but rather a carefully planned operation to “channel” mass enthusiasm in the direction the organs needed.

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They are united by their common goal of “fundamentally weakening the West and in the first instance the US, to extend the borders of their influence in the world, and to make Russia an assembly point for all the anti-Western forces of the world,” Pavlova continues.'

- Russia has Reached Its Own Very Different ‘End of History’ and West has Failed to Recognize This, Pavlova Says, July 7, 2015</blockquote>


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<blockquote>Who Are The Russian Generals That Ukraine Says Are Fighting In The Donbas? July 3, 2015

'Russia .. has to withdraw from Ukraine to gain relief from Western sanctions..'