Russia: And the Only True Democracy Left

Russia: And the Only True Democracy Left

04.12.2015 Author: Phil Butler

The news of world conflict grows more serious each day, or so it seems. What was a Ukraine crisis, has now been superseded by first a refugee emergency, and now a NATO-Russia potential for confrontation. However, even despite the growing discord in between the United States and her allies and the Russian sphere, there emerges a path to an “honorable peace.” I’ve unearthed documents and historically significant ideals for democracy, which tell of the only realistic possibility for solving the current crisis. What you are about to read, is a telling manifesto for peace in our world today. Please pay close attention.

“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” – A. J. Liebling

The Premise

It is no secret in the West that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been accused of commanding a “repressive regime,” of being a veritable Czar, with utter and complete control over every event in his country. Some even say Russia under Putin longs for a new Soviet Empire, a reestablishment of former territorial control over much of Europe. Some of those proclaiming they want peace, from Washington or London, they contend no true democracy reins in Russia today. President Barack Obama, members of the United States house and senate, parliamentarians from the UK and the EU, and all their supporting agencies of détente, preach human rights and the further democratization of Russia and the CIS, as the only true course to peace in our time. And it is true, the march of democracy has never been stronger.

As an American journalist, I can identify with the rhetoric Barack Obama or Senators like John McCain use, to infuse in the waiting public the notion, the concept, of how our world would be safer if Russia were simply more democratic. This side of the great debate today, it gains momentum in the ebb and flow of international relations. I’ve even discovered a document with 14 points, which should suffice to set our world straight, if only Mr. Putin and the Russian people would adhere to the principles set forth. Here are the 14 points western leaders like Obama, Cameron, and EU President Jean-Claude Juncker surely condone, as a solution to Russian inclusion among the great democracies of the world. For Russia to be truly democratic, she must ensure that:

1. The equality of all peoples of Russia and a real right for national development, self determination, self rule, and governmental independence.

2. Russia must confirm a popular worker front, before which the interests of the government are subordinate to the goals of raising the well-being and development of the nation.

3. She must preserve peace and the establishment of peaceful relations with all nations of the world, an provide for all round development of international collaboration.

4. Russia must take a wide range of government actions for the strengthening of the family and marriage. A true equality for women.

5. Russia must liquidate forced labor and grant to the laborers a real right to free labor which creates their material well-being, the confirmation of a wage for all types of labor in an amount that can support an appropriate standard of living.

6. Russia must liquidate the collective farms, and return the land to the private ownership of farmers.

7. She must establish protected private labor ownership, and reestablish trade, crafts, domestic industry, and the granting of the right of private initiative and an opportunity for it to participate in the economic life of the nation.

8. Russia must grant the intelligencia the opportunity to freely create for the well-being of their people.

9. Mr. Putin’s government must grant social justice and defend laborers from any exploitation, regardless of their origin and former activities.

10. All this must be done without exception to the real right for free education, medical care, vacation, and senior welfare.

11. The Russians must destroy the regime of terror and force and liquidate forceful repopulations and mass exiles. They must establish a true freedom of religion, conscience, speech, assembly, press.

12. The liberation of political opponents of Bolshevism and the return to the motherland from the jails and camps of all who were repressed for their battle against Bolshevism must be accomplished.

13. Russia must reestablishment national property ruined during wars – cities, villages, factories, and plants at cost to the government.
Russia must support the “orphans of war.”

The Evangelicals

On June 4th, 2009, American President Barack Obama gave a speech in Cairo, Egypt. In that speech, the US president elaborated on what democracy means for him. He professed America’s current commitment to basically the 14 points above:

“No matter where it takes hold, government of the people and by the people sets a single standard for all who would hold power: You must maintain your power through consent, not coercion; you must respect the rights of minorities, and participate with a spirit of tolerance and compromise; you must place the interests of your people and the legitimate workings of the political process above your party. Without these ingredients, elections alone do not make true democracy.”

With this I offer you the most stark and crystallized irony imaginable. Mr. Obama was right, elections do not create true democracy.

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