“This political line is wholly neo-Soviet: human beings do not have independent existences, they are cogs in the machine whose function is to implement unquestioningly whatever political escapades those in power dream up. Cogs have no rights. Not even to dignity in death.” ― Anna Politkovskaya, Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy.
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| Anna Politkovskaya August 30, 1958 - October 7, 2006 |
Anna Politkovskaya was a journalist who spoke truth to power in Russia. She was a critic of Vladimir Putin. She was shot dead in her apartment on Vladimir Putin's birthday in 2006. Six individuals have been brought to justice, but the mastermind remains free 16 years after her assassination. She is not the only one killed for speaking truth about Putin. Below is a 2011 documentary about this courageous woman who paid the ultimate price for seeking the truth and reporting it.
Below Anna speaks in her own words.
“Putin, having accidentally received enormous power into his hands,
administered it to catastrophic consequences for Russia. And I do not
like him, because he does not like people. He can’t stand us. He
despises us. He believes that we are a means to him only, a means to
achieve his own personal power goals. Therefore, he can do anything he
wishes to us, plays with us as he pleases, destroys us, if he wishes.
For him, we are nothing. And he, having accidentally scrambled to the
top, is now a king and a god, whom everybody should worship and fear.”
“We live in an era where normal values have been displaced. The good is called bad, the bad – good”
"People sometimes pay with their lives for saying aloud what they think."
She is missed, and remembered. #JusticeForAnnaPolitkovskaya #JusticeForAnna #EndImpunity
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