Fear in the Kremlin

[fridi]

Every victory infuses further enthusiasm and strength in the winner. In these recent clashes between the Russian opposition and the government's repressive machine, the former took a huge moral victory. After all, who would sympathize with the police who are using their batons to strike down a girl who's already on her knees? Just because she wants fair elections? Who would support those secret service men who are beating young people bloody on the street and then taking them away somewhere? Who would stand by the masked cops who are sending their fiery dogs against protestors? It's obvious that all sympathies are with the protestors. The images of all this meaningless violence, these atrocities comitted by Kremlin's thugs, are disgusting.

They also remind us that in Russia, power trumps human and civil rights...