Russia Watch: Lebed's Way

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...Three days later, an article under his name in Nezavisimaya Gazeta contained similar proposals, including a call for a law allowing for punitive nationalization and even laws limiting profits, as well as strong control over "exit visas" - a Sovietera mechanism that currently does not exist-for Russians who possess sensitive economic or technical information...

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...His moral support among the officers' corps-and now among a large segment of the population-has given him the strength to withstand attack as he climbs higher on the political ladder...

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...These institutions would be concerned only with national security and "cultural" issues...

...It was an eerie response, though perhaps not quite as chilling as his remarks published in Sobesednik...

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...F e gained ii million votes in the presidential vote on Sunday, June i6, coming in third with 14 Percent of the vote...

...While the latter objective is beyond its reach, it has been most successful in the former...

...Lebed added to leis grown ig legendary status with his unerring knack for the one-liner...

...The audience at the conference included a large number of Cossacks, whom Lebed extolled as "born victors who go into battle with only one thing in mind-to tear out the throat of the enemy...

...Now it is Lebed's turn to call the shots...

...R U S S I A W A T C H Lebed's Way He saved Boris Yeltsin-but at what price...

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...Sometime early this year- it has not yet been establ ishecl exactly wlieii-in a clear effort to T split the opposition vote, fl leYeltsin camp reached out to Lebed...

...If Israel ceded the Gaza Strip-the invasion route since before biblical times-and Judea/Samaria (the "West Bank") to its sworn enemies it would make the country indefensible...

...The Arab nations would not allow it...

...When one Cossack prefaced a question to Lebed with an apology, the ex-general responded: "You call yourself a Cossack, but your approach is Jewish...

...Asked about his long-time rival Grachev, lie growled...

...Other Arab states are still in a declared or undeclared state of war with Israel...

...When I asked Lebed about the document at a press conference, he offered a non-denial denial as to whether it represented his thinking...

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...Izvestia political commentator Otto Latsis gushed enthusiastically about the document, and one Russian human rights activist I know passed over Yeltsin and Yabloko's Grigory Yavlinksy to vote for Lebed on June i6...

...But as for all these other sects," he went on, "Mormons, Aum Shinrikyo-all this is mold and scum that is artificially brought into this country with the aim of perverting, corrupting, and ultimately breaking up our state...

...And then: "I am an advocate of harsh but carefully thought out solutions, because one should strike two times-one time on the head, the second time on the coffin lid...

...Therefore, the state must rise to the defense of its citizens and outlaw these foul sects...

...Arafat and his lieutenants continue to make blood-curdling speeches to the Arab public, in which they re-assert their old goal of destroying Israel in "stages...

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...His conciliatory mood didn't last too long...

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...Naishul's input to Lebed's platform made the ex-general not only palatable to Russian liberals, but even attractive...

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...Since the signing of the "peace agreement" they have continued in unrestrained terror and murder against the Jews...

...The assumption that "Palestine" would be demili tarized is not tenable...

...One of those recruits was Leonid Razikiiovskv, who wrote Lebed's platform, "Truth and Order...

...Not surprisingly, events since the famous "handshake" confirm such skepticism...

...Easily moved and hidden along Israel's new eastern bor ders, which would be increased from 40 miles in length to over 200 miles they would rain destruction over most of Israel--cov ering in their entire ty Israel's narrow waist that holds 70% of the Jewish population of the I Yes, I want to help in the publication of these ads and I in clarifying the situation in the Middle East...

...As the newspaper noted, this document bore the fingerprints not of freemarketeer Naishul, but the statist Glazyev...

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...It seems almost incomprehensible that a group as supposedly levelheaded as the previous government of Israel would have entered into a "peace agreement" with them...

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...Iran, Moslem though not Arab, lurks in the background, its foremost political objective being the destruction of the state of Israel...

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...I tt may be remembered as the hit of the season: during a climactic scene in Russia's political drama, a tough 46year-old reserve paratroop general swaggers onto the stage and pledges his loyalh, to reform, while promising to guarantee political stability and eradicate the contagion of crime and corruption that has wormed its way into the heart of the economy over the last five years Miracles have seemed to accompany Aleksandr Lebed's rise...

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...country, 80% of its namely that it forswear the clauses in its industrial base, its only international airport, "covenant" that call for the destruction of and its most important military installations...

...Alcksci Coiovkov, depuh chairman of the State by Jonas L3ernstein Duma's budget committee and a member of Our Home is Russia-the proYeltsin park- headed by prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin-pulled together a team of professional writers, image-inakers, and thinkers to work on Lebed s presidential campaign...

...A demilitarized "West Bank" and Gaza Strip, it is believed, would do away with any military threat to the state of Israel...

...But following its poor showing in the parliamentary contest, KRO picked the general as its presidential candidate-and I•,ebed, clearly seeking a more promising vehicle for his ambitions, said he Would "try to make a pact" with Gyuganov's Communists, who had swept into first place in the parIiainentarv vote...

...Several days earlier, Lebed had praised Glazyev as "highly qualified" and "honest...

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...He understands that removing the economic roots of corruption will require measures like tax reduction and simplification...

...But that may not prove so easy...

...Its purpose is the research and publication of the facts regarding developments in the Middle East and exposing false propaganda that might harm the interests of the United States and its allies in that area of the world...

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...The Arabs danced on the roofs of their houses when Iraqi Scud missiles fell on Tel Aviv during the Gulf War...

...And hie dismissed the idea that lie had betrayed his opposition-minded electorate by joining forces with Yeltsin...

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...While again committing himself to the "new idea" of reform, he launched into a tirade against Western "cultural expansion...

...After the international outcry over these remarks, Lebed backed off a bit, adding 58 I I I I 1 August r996 - TheAmerican Spectator Judaism and Catholicism to his list of acceptable religions and saying it is okay to "borrow" from Western culture...

...Naishul is against high taxes and trade protectionism, and he advocates what he calls "competitive federalism" as a way of lowering taxes and providing the impetus for the growth of real judicial institutions, whose functions are currently carried out by freelancers like private security firms and the mafia...

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...The economist outlined his vision for Russia's future in the daily Sevodnya on May 23, spelling out the model for a quasi-authoritarian state based on ancient Russian traditions and laissez-faire economics The resulting mix of Plato, Hobbes, Hayek, and Friedman looks like a Russian version of the Asian model...

...Among KRO's leaders was Sergei Glazvev, a former Yeltsin economist who had moved so far to the left that his economic ideas were indistinguishable from those of Comnninist leader Gennadv Zyuganov...

...In the June 29 Moscow Times, respected military columnist Aleksandr Zhilin wrote that Lebed now "is considered the most credible unofficial leader of Russia's military...

...The absences on that list were obvious...

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...The PLO, is a terror organization that has only one purpose: to kill Jews and to destroy the state of Israel...

...Even more worrying was Lebed's now-infamous June 27 appearance at a conference of the Union of National-Patriotic Organizations...

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...But Naishul also believes, as he said at a June 24 press conference, that the fight will require "a powerful structure that would stand above officialdom" and necessitate "much tougher measures than those that were used in many other countries...

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...His instincts hardly appear to be libertarian...

...The weapons of preference of Arab terrorists are the Soviet-made Katyusha rockets, highly effective missiles, truck mounted and swiftly mobile, ideal for hit and-run raids against Israel...

...But one can expect that the new leaders of Israel clearly understand this danger and that they will not make concessions that will endanger the security of their country...

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...Razikhovsky, who told inc he began.x orking for the Lebed campaign in March, said the central ideas for the platform were provided by economist Vitals Naishul, head ofa Moscow thinktank called the Institute of National Models of the Economy...

...The first alarming sign came June z6, when the Interfax news agency reported the contents of a document attributed to Lebed, outlining such steps as tightening restrictions on foreigners traveling to Russia, stepping up economic espionage abroad, imposing strict controls over for eign trade, continuing state supervision of agriculture, as well as criticizing the "unjustifiably accelerated" pace of privatization...

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...In the meantime, mortars and Katyushas located on the Judean ridges-Israel's proposed new borders-would suffice to neutralize life and industrial and military activity in Israel...

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...Many of the Russian journalists in the audience applauded...

...The ultra-nationalist loud-mouth, lie said, had "arrived at his logical finish...

...Asked by a television interviewer on July 1 whether he was worried about being viewed as a latter-day Stalin, Lebed replied, "We cannot control the country with naked force today, like in the twenties and thirties...

...By Tuesday, he was President Boris Yeltsin's national security czar...

...By Thursday, the most corrupt officials of the Kremlin inner circle-including Defense Minister Pavel Grachev, presidential security service chief Aleksandr Korzhakov, and First Deputy Prime Minister 0 1 e g Soskovyets--were out...

...Lebed, who last year told a television interviewer that he does not believe human beings have souls-he did allow that people should have the right to believe so-named Russian Orthodoxy, Islam, and Buddhism as the country's "established, traditional religions" that should have the right to flourish...

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...Naishul opposes representative parliamentary democracy, calling instead for an appointed Duma-a kind of council of boyars and an elected autocrat...

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...If Yeltsin beats Zyuganov in the July 3 presidential run-off, he may move quickly to check Lebed's growing power himself, or may even fire him...

...What's more, wrote Zhilin, Lebed "has overtaken Yeltsin, whose own fate now lies in the general's hands...

...Only incurable optimists can believe that an "autonomous" Palestine would wish to become a peaceful neighbor of Israel...

...The problem, however, is that there is no evidence Lebed has any deep beliefs in the area of political economy beyond his aim to impose order (navesti poryadok...

...In one of the few articles critical of Lebed to appear here during the election campaign, Sobesednik compared the June 18 handshake between Lebed and Yeltsin, when the two men joined forces, to the January 30,1933, handshake between an enfeebled German President Paul von Hindenburg and "a certain corporal...

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...Lebed left active military service last June, and won a seat in the State Dimia in December's parliamentary election- But his bloc, the Congress of Russian Communities (KRO), had failed to get the five percent of the vote required for party representation in the legislature...

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