KGB colonel Preobrazhensky: ''Russian opposition is totally controlled by FSB''

In connection with an actually underground publication of his book "KGB in Russian emigration" in Russia, a KGB colonel Konstantin Preobrazhensky, who chose freedom in 2003 by fleeing to the United States, told about KGB Russia ruled by the "dog puppeteer" Putin and his "puppet" Medvedev.

The KGB colonel said in a statement to his compatriots inside Russia:

"The whole West fawns upon Putin's KGB Empire, although the West behaved towards a more powerful Soviet Union with contempt and mockery. It never happened before in world history.

It's amazing how easy Putin's Russia achieved it in just 10 years. Its current rulers are more sly then the Soviets. Along with the oil blackmail, they skillfully use weaknesses and prejudices of the West: its credulity and false integrity, political correctness and tolerance, softness, love of comfort, inability to overcome life's difficulties.

It would seem that a Russian patriot should rejoice about the strengthen of Russia's influence, and not to feel disgust for it. I feel disgust for it because the current influence of Russia is based on falsehood. It'll strike back on Russia like a boomerang.

The West is no longer protecting our dissidents. The West is no longer a helper and protector for us. It would be half so bad if the West sold itself for our oil. But no, so many people in the West believe Putin's propaganda, believe that the Russian people threw off the yoke of Communism and joined the West.

And Russia goes back to Soviet times. How hard to feel powerless in your own country!

The KGB would never give back the state power it seized, and there is nobody at all is to take this power away from it: our frail opposition is totally controlled by the FSB".

It is to be noted that the KGB colonel knows such things better.

Department of Monitoring