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Documentary: My friend Sasha

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For three years before his death from poisoning, former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko had been making a documentary with his friend Andrei Nekrasov about authoritarianism in post-communist Russia. Here is that film, the unexpected ending of which made world headlines at the end of 2006.

Nekrasov sent a letter to the Finish newspaper HELSINGIN SANOMAT from the bedside of his poisoned friend Alexander Litvinenko called “A letter from Russia” saying:

The moralist incantations of the Bush-Blair crusade have an uncanny prototype in Brezhnev’s political verbiage and tonality used to justify his invasion of Afghanistan. The gist of the Politburo’s message, too, was making the world better and safer. Which is in stark contrast with the sparse and dry putinisms on the “anti-terrorist operation” in Chechnya. No gleeful eruptions there, no humdrum preaching, no pseudo-philosophical generalizations. And instead of all that - success.

Watch it here:

My friend Sasha

5 Comments, Comment or Ping

  1. Mr. Green Jeans

    Alexander Litvinenko:
    nice BBC video! I don’t think this guy was any where as important as he thought he was himself.

  2. helen

    Your video link is illigal .it is copyrighted material please remove immidiately to avoid further legal action ! google and utube are allready alerted !

  3. Charles

    Your video link is illigal .it is copyrighted material please remove immidiately to avoid further legal action ! google and utube are allready alerted !

    Comment by helen — February 10, 2007 @ 4:28 am

    So what branch of the FSB do you work for?

  4. Charles I didn’t removed it, Google did that

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