And the nobel prize for literature goes to ... another Putin basher

[Jeremy F Kreuz]

Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize for literature. The choice seems to have some relation with what she thinks of Vladimir Putin.

BBC reports on some reactions - http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34478536

Belarusian and Russian reaction to Alexievich prize

"A new national leader has appeared in Belarus, She has more authority now than any politician - the president or a minister. And she's someone with normal European values" Belarusian playwright and screenwriter Andrey Kureychyk

"It will go down in the history of the development of the Belarusian nation, society and state" Belarus foreign ministry

"Alas, she was given the prize for her hatred towards Russia" Pro-Kremlin Russian journalist Dmitry Smirnov

"She represents the Russian world without Putin: the world of Russian language and literature, which opposes the Russian government. The Nobel prize has given us a spiritual leader" Independent Russian journalist Oleg Kashin speaking on Ekho Moskvy radio

and her own words

"I love the Russian world, but the kind, humane Russian world," she added, talking of Russia under President Vladimir Putin.

"I do not love Beria, Stalin, Putin... how low they let Russia sink," she said - reflecting on Mr Putin's ruthless Soviet predecessors.

"Dictator Putin and dictator Lukashenko both have mandates from their societies, they are the concentrated desire of the people, which means that society is at that particular stage in its development," she said during the launch of her latest book, Second-hand Time

 

[Hesper]

Thanks for sharing. From the Telegraph:

Svetlana Alexievich's Nobel win sends a stern message to Putin

There will be many cheers, not a little puzzlement, and plenty of irritation at the award of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature to the Belarusian writer and journalist Svetlana Alexievich. She is a dissident of the Soviet and post-Soviet era, channelling her protest into a series of books, documentaries and plays that have turned Communism inside out, chronicling its reality from the standpoint of individual experience. And there will undoubtedly be anger, at least in Minsk and Moscow, at the prize having been awarded to a passionate critic of Soviet ideology and its legacies.

Well yeah, count me as one of the irritated. I'm sick of propagandists using every opportunity they can to hide the West's crimes against humanity with these stupid, 6th grade level smear campaigns. Compare the above drivel to the reality of the situation:

Eric King: "Dr. Roberts, about this situation in Syria, obviously the Russians have bombed key targets and the rest of the world is watching and saying, 'Putin just took over and put a stop to the madness.'"

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: "It certainly looks that way. You know Putin told the world at the U.N. meeting, 'We can no longer tolerate the state of affairs in the world.' So he told the United States, Europe, and the other puppet states such as Canada, Australia, and Japan that Russia will no longer tolerate this. And two days later they (the Russians) have taken over the situation in Syria.

Reminds me of something the Russian Foreign Ministry said lately:

"Show us the facts.