Russian scientist jailed for treason as Putin's 'spy mania' escalates....

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Russian scientist jailed for treason as Putin's 'spy mania' escalates accusing academics of betraying the motherland
A Russian academic has been jailed for treason after being accused of betraying the motherland.

This week, Anatoly Maslov, a 77-year-old scientist was jailed for 14 years at a closed doors trial in a St Petersburg Court.

Held in pre-trial custody for almost two years, Malsov was accused of giving Germany top-secret data related to Russia’s hypersonic missile programme - despite not having actually worked on the project.

Malsov denied the charges, even though a guilty plea would likely see him served a shorter sentence. His supporters say that the 14-year ruling is a death sentence for the 77-year-old, who suffers from a heart condition.

It does seem that Vlad' Putin seems to be seeing treason around every corner these days and appears to have arrested most of his Hypersonic scientists, Maslov is one of at least a dozen scientists arrested recently on treason charges, as Putin seems to seeing Spys everywhere?

This just as Poland has annouced to build an Iron Curtain to protect Europe from Putin as anti-tank ditches, bunkers and minefields line 434mile-long border. It appears Vlads Special little Operation is having the opposite effect to the one he wanted, as well as making Putin paranoid as it's said he know has 4 doctors and 100 security guards at all times???

a reply to: Kurokage

Putin has to deflect the blame off himself for the huge mess he created for Russia with the invasion of Ukraine.

That old man will die in one of Putin's prisons.

Cheers

originally posted by: F2d5thCavv2
a reply to: Kurokage

Putin has to deflect the blame off himself for the huge mess he created for Russia with the invasion of Ukraine.

That old man will die in one of Putin's prisons.

Cheers

It really is a sad state of affairs.
Mad Vlad is jailing these old scientist because of his own failures and the corruption within his military ranks. Putin's paranoia seems to be getting the better of him now, and as you've said this old guys will die in a jail cell labeled as traitors.

It's bad to see a leader put political opponents in jail over made up crimes.

Yes, I know.
It sounds so familiar,
I just cannot put my finger on it.


a reply to: bigginpc

a reply to: Kurokage

"...four doctors and 100 security guards..."

Sounds like lots of "opportunities".....


If you know what I mean...

a reply to: Kurokage

Putin wasn't pleased when it turned out his untouchable hypersonic missiles weren't as untouchable as he thought , this could be revenge for that , I remember when the 3 of them were arrested in 2022.

I've seen it reported all 3 of them face the same charge.

The more I study Putin, the more I realize he's not living in the modern era. Almost every initiative he undertakes is like he's living in the days of the Roman Empire with a Stalinist mentality. Paranoia of the highest order, conquest for the sake of conquest, without regard to reality, and the list goes on. If you examine his actions in the modern technological world they make little sense, but if you rewind the world timeline 100 years they begin to make some sense, and rewind 1,500 years his actions begin to make even more sense.

originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
The more I study Putin, the more I realize he's not living in the modern era. Almost every initiative he undertakes is like he's living in the days of the Roman Empire with a Stalinist mentality. Paranoia of the highest order, conquest for the sake of conquest, without regard to reality, and the list goes on. If you examine his actions in the modern technological world they make little sense, but if you rewind the world timeline 100 years they begin to make some sense, and rewind 1,500 years his actions begin to make even more sense.

An interesting deduction. Bible prophecy referring to both the kings of the "north" and "south" say that they would be sitting at one table speaking lies to each other. And that there would be a pushing and shoving between the two all throughout the time in which we are now living.

If you get a hankering check out these threads about the subject:

Russia and its Allies - The King of the North

What the Future Holds for Russia and its Allies

a reply to: gortex

I always chuckle when I hear the term 'hyper-sonic' weapons, like it's something new. It really isn't; hyper-sonic weapons have been around for more than 6 decades. They really need to change the name of these weapons to something more appropriate, like "small highly directional atmospheric hyper-sonic" weapons, because this is the only difference. Ballistic nuclear missiles have been hyper-sonic since the 60's, and they're directional (very much so), but they're also very big, relatively speaking.

I often place the hyper-sonic weapon discussion in the same bucket as 'quantum computing', 'graphene', and 'carbon nanotube' development. Yes, they're all real (sort of), and there are all manner of fantastical prognostications about what "might" be possible (in the distant future), but real world applications on a worldwide scale utility is not reality.

Anyway, I digress. Sorry for the excursion.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

He's Russian.

This is Russia.

Seriously, look at the political history of the country, its culture, its power struggles. Historically, fraticide has, in Russia, been a normal avenue of political advancement.

You people - westerners and mostly United States citizens - look at the entire world through your socio-political and cultural lenses. STOP IT!

One of my favorite sayings (call it a meme if you like, but it's true) is this:

The American says, "I will die for freedom."
The Englishman says, "I will die for honor."
The Frenchman says, "I will die for love."
The Russian says, "I will die."

I remember reading a quote by one of the great Russian authors - Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, can't remember and I've read them all - wherein he compared Russia to a troika being pulled down a boulevard by a team of horses out of control.

We've seen how well "exporting democracy" works in other parts of the world. The end result now is not that the democratic powers of the earth have established democracies in all of the far-flung corners, but that the corruption that was ostensibly to be obliterated has taken up full-time residence in western "democracies." The potentates running the show in western "democracies" now are no better than Vladimir Putin - except that he has balls and the rest do not.

So, quit your whinging about Vlad and take a look at your own corrupt, sick western "leaders" and their servile, sycophant entourages.

"Mad Vlad," hell. What about Slow Joe? Frankly, if I had to choose (and nobody will be asking us anytime soon), I'd rather have a lion like Vlad running the show rather than a retarded old dolt like Biden.

ETA: I think I found the quote about the troika that I referenced. It's from Nikolai Gogol:

Oh troika, winged troika, tell me who invented you? Surely, nowhere but among a nimble nation could you have been born in a country which has taken itself in earnest and has evenly spread far and wide over half of the globe, so that once you start counting the milestones you may count on till a speckled haze dances before your eyes... Rus, are you not similar in your headlong motion to one of those nimble troikas that none can overtake? The flying road turns into smoke under you, bridges thunder and pass, all fall back and is left behind!... And what does this awesome motion mean? What is the passing strange steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?... Rus, whither are you speeding to? Answer me. No answer. The middle bell trills out in a dream its liquid soliloquy; the roaring air is torn to pieces and becomes wind; all things on earth fly by and other nations and states gaze askance as they step aside and give her the right of way.

It's like what I often say about the Middle East:

Stop calling it Middle East violence and just call it what it is, Middle East culture.

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a reply to: AwakeNotWoke

LOL...in your zeal to point out 'something' (I know not what), you seem to have missed my point (entirely). Presumably you are attempting to shield Putin from some sort of criticism (???)

I am not "whining" about anything. I am merely pointing out an observation about Putin and his geopolitical strategies of late. Surely you don't think Putin's conquest of Ukraine is a good idea, do you? Forget the West's posture on this action by Putin, this is not my point; I am asking purely from an average Russian standpoint. However, this same strategy might have made sense in 400 A.D.

My point was not to lament western culture in comparison to Putin's geopolitical posturing today, but rather to put into perspective Putin's seeming loss of touch with much of the modern world today (doesn't matter who you are).

Edit - BTW, I will "STOP" nothing!!

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Add to that look that Putin is one of those guys who wants to wind the clock backwards ... an exercise that never ends well, particularly at national / international level.

Cheers

a reply to: AwakeNotWoke

"Mad Vlad," hell. What about Slow Joe?".

Whataboutism number 5,999,000?

a reply to: Oldcarpy2

We gotta' get with the modern times here, man!

It's not "Slow Joe", that's not a cool celebrity nickname people can get 'jiggy' with. Naw, it's SLO-JO!
You know, like J-LO, and J-LAW, and K-FED and all the rest of those 'too cool for school' knuckleheads.

SLO-JO say "Let's go, Brandon!"

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

My reply was to people in general. And I don't need to shield anyone from anything. But our western heads of state are absolutely no better.

Putin has not "loss touch" with the modern world. I don't think he ever had touch with it. He's Russian. He lives in the Russian world, with a Russian world view and a Russian ideology. That was my point. He is at least faithful to his culture, his socio-political ideology and tradition. Can't say that about any of our western heads of state. They have all - to a man/woman/they/whatever they call themselves now - abandoned all historical ideologies and patterns.

People fear that which they cannot understand. The west fears Russian because it cannot understand Russia. The west thinks Russia should be like the rest of "us." Ain't gonna happen.

As to Russia's invasion of southern Ukraine, one does not poke a bear without expecting the bear to react. I think that there have been plenty of provocations on the part of NATO and the western powers to stir up things that now we'd rather not deal with. Was Russia's reaction justified? Ask Russia. Have NATO's incursions been justified all along?

originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: AwakeNotWoke

"Mad Vlad," hell. What about Slow Joe?".

Whataboutism number 5,999,000?

The point is not a "whataboutism." The point is that there are failures in international leadership all across the board, but it's easier and safer to bitch about bad ol' Vlad.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

No speako American?

a reply to: AwakeNotWoke

Maybe. But the topic is Russia?

a reply to: AwakeNotWoke

As to Russia's invasion of southern Ukraine, one does not poke a bear without expecting the bear to react. I think that there have been plenty of provocations on the part of NATO and the western powers to stir up things that now we'd rather not deal with. Was Russia's reaction justified? Ask Russia. Have NATO's incursions been justified all along?

Interesting and fair counterpoint. Although way off-topic here, we could probably have a pretty interesting discussion on your last point about NATO's actions being justified. Without going into excessive detail, I don't honestly believe that NATO always acts as one body. Perhaps a different way to say this is, while a country may be under the NATO umbrella, that is not the same as saying that they always act in lockstep with NATO as a block. So, to this end, I would maybe even agree with you and say, maybe some of those actions haven't been justified. My rejoinder though would be, were those the actions of NATO as a whole, OR the actions of a country with an agenda who was 'hiding' behind the NATO umbrella for protection?

I see those as two different things. But again, this discussion is probably better suited in another thread.

I am actually far more objective than you may think.