Masha Gessen: Putin's War - Against the West 

I like this woman.She seems really intelligent and articulates her thoughts very well. Its impressive. I might have to read her books now.

13 April 2022, , how wide-ranging and prescient this talk has proved!

Listening to this today is ominous and sobering.

I was lokking for Grigory Leps Russian singer and get this beauty !

A very attractive speaker. I like her speaking manner and the level of her analysis.

This is terrifying. Even more so when you consider that this was 2 years before Trump.

Greetings to Putin's keyboard warriors. Happy clicking! Don't forget to take breaks now and then for sunshine and exercise.

And here we are...

Now we are watching All these videos. She knew everything before.

всё верно....

the Russian trolls are all over the comment section.

To all of Putin's Trolls: You don't fool anyone.

Putin troll army below

A real good book is "The First Person : An Astonishingly Frank Selfportrait By Russia's President".

Re: The Trial of Pussy Riot, it sounds like the Salem which trials

Great job.

It gets interesting towards the end at 55:00

Masha Gessen describes Putin as supporting a clean living but in many ways less kind society and one thing that is notable about the tendency of religions who are the centre of a movement towards such scared and intellectually as well as sexually repressed societies, is their choice of governors who are not very moral at all. In Italy, Berlusconi was the head of the party of the right. The right in the Mediteranean are the parties of the more religious, which is to say, Catholics parts of the country. Berlusconi was financial and sexually very immoral. Putin also the candidate of the Russian Orthodox church, according to Masha Greshen, is also an an unsavoury character, with a adolescent and frivolous liking to showing off his pectorals and of brutal tendencies, as is seen in the brutal repression of his people. Trump is someone whose living is as unclean as Berlusconi's' almost. Why do religions combine asking for an extreme, sexual at any rate, morality for the poor and care so little about the morality of leaders? Even of church leaders, look up the story of Marcial Maciel, founder of the Legion of Christ, he was an out out baddy and they say he had charism, which in catholic terms means, miraculous characteristics. If he did miracles and every one says he had charism, then miracles must be considered as magic is, not necessarily good at all, maybe white and maybe black

Iies.

Only trolls in the comment section ! ?

what she says everybody knows that.

My experience from talking to people in bars and on the street, is that what is happening in Russia, a return to the values of good clean living without worrying about the more cruel aspecs of such values, is happening everywhere. Here in Europe street recruiters for Catholic sects are making enormous headway as far as I can make out, and the crisis has helped their agenda because food hand outs have made everyone so found of Catholics. I give money in big stores and the catholics hand out the food they claim the recognition for what has been given by all. We know how much Evangelist like the right and family values in North America, so there there are various churches working to get people to vote for such as Putin and Trump. I wonder whether the truth is not that the Orthodox Church has not caught Putin rather than that Putin has uses the Orthodox church. I would bet that it is the church that has got Putin. It seems to me that different religions spy on each other and pick up each others tricks when they think they are useful, much as they pretend not to change, and I think that the new order in the world is part of a reaction to the well fare state and so a propagandistic effort on the part of the religions and is due to their becoming more reactionary. The freedom of the new world and the well fare state, attacked the religions, all of them or that is how they saw it. I think people just like religions if these can keep up with the times. I like religion but I cannot take it that religions ask for the vote for the right when religions pretend to mind poverty so mucthey refuse to see that you cannot change homosexuals tendency to love their own sex. I would be religious if it weren't for the nastiness of the religious. I think that people like religions if these dont get too horrible but the churches saw their own annihilation or just wanted their harsher side to be allowed to thrive, so they have been a main world influence in getting us quite a way down the road to were Putin has gone, back to pre-French revolution times. Of course they are expansionist ,which means they need money and the well fare state took away many of their main job openings , health education and charity, still I wonder how well they did in the high moment of well fare states? Maybe their fear for their pockets if the well fare state thrives is more imaginary than something real. i The religions could remain respectable morally If they supported ideas that allowed people to follow their conscious, instead of supporting governments that kept a shackled and scared populations but, that is not what they are choosing to do. The other part of the equation that is leading us in the direction Russia is going in, leading us back to pre French revolution times, is the strong reaction of the rich to the situation that existed forty to sixty years ago, at least in England. The fast nationalisation of so many things, high taxes on the rich and their having to pay higher wages which prevented the growth of billionaires and helped the government organise the well fare state and so the employment of so many people in the more efficient than the religions, government institutions of health and education and helping the poor. Governments since then, even those of the left who also came to believe the arguments of the right, have been helping the rich so as to help the economy, by reducing taxes on the very rich, by de-regulising very big business, and such things have lead us to a world in which their are lots of billionaires and very few small to medium businesses. The reaction to the new and better world we had almost got for ourselves in the sixties has been been to push those who did not like the well fare state to get very good at propaganda, they, the religons and rich, manipulate populations into doing what is bad for them such as voting for Trump.

i'm reading her book now. It actually makes Putin look like a bigger badass imo

Did she miss the documentary made by Olivia Stone Ukraine on fire, certainly she did

I get the feeling this activist would like to be like Putin. Only can't be. The hairdo looks like a science need I knew in high school.

This sounds very biological

Oy vey, shut it down!

pfui

THE WEST WAR ON RUSSIA is correct

It's so easy to be philosopher among uncultivated students, anybody can fit

She's a well-spoken joke:-))) can't take her seriously.

Is that really a lesbian or is that just George Soros in drag?

The answer is already in the question - are these people scholars or propagandists? Masha Gessen: Putin's War - Against the West -OMG.

second book about Putin, conferences, universities, congress, youtube all about Putin what would she do without him? He brings her much money she found golden mine in only one person, she is doctor of Putin, if I am Vladimir I would ask royalties ....

she is Putin's troll she makes him more popularity than anybody yesss Masha go on

This woman has 1. a bias which clouds her views. 2. incorrect views.

LGBT Activist...oh sweet lord this is why we need RT..away from the bbc Guardian crew

The arrogance, the up-speak... the narcissism and dishonesty are quite obvious in her.

how people can listen to people like her she knows nothing about Russia just in the business of making money period..

thumbs down

This woman talks ENDLESS NONSENSE!