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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo what does it matter that Putin was head of the KGB
Wasn't George H W Bush head of the CIA?
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)2. When he was, you'd be hard-pressed to find many instances of hardcore spywar tactics to silence or disable opponents to further consolidate his power...
3. Being an old-school Chekist is on the low end of the scale of Putin's offenses...Although it is easy to see on a daily basis how that background colors his words and deeds...
greatauntoftriplets
(175,733 posts)PachobelsCannon
(13 posts)were silenced, namely JFK, MLK and RFK. The fact that his father helped finance the Nazis in WW2 should also be taken into consideration. The Russian President is small beans in comparison.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president
Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington
Saturday 25 September 2004 18.59 EDT
George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.
The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.
His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.
The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Angleae
(4,482 posts)He rose only to the rank of Lt Col and resigned as such in 1991.