Pet Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky (Russian: Влади́мир Во́льфович Жирино́вский, born April 25, 1946 as Vladimir Volfovich Eidelstein) is a Russian politician, colonel of the Russian Army, founder and the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), Vice-Chairman of the State Duma, and a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. *** Vladimir Zhirinovsky throwing stones and mud onto Jewish students, who accused him of anti-Semitism. Russian Consulate in Strasbourg, April 11, 1994. *** In 2005, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan declared Zhirinovsky persona non grata on the territory of his historical homeland, due to the politician's controversial speech about the change of the Russia-Kazakhstan border, in which he questioned the Kazakh people's place in history. As of 2006, Zhirinovsky was persona non grata also in Ukraine following his statements regarding the January 2006 Russia-Ukraine gas dispute (this was revoked in 2007). In reaction to Condoleezza Rice's criticism of Russian foreign policy during the dispute, Zhirinovsky stated that "Condoleezza Rice needs a company of soldiers and needs to be taken to barracks where she would be satisfied." In the past, Zhirinovsky has been expelled from Bulgaria for insulting its president and was also barred from entry to Germany. *** Zhirinovsky has done a great deal to foster a reputation as a loud and boisterous populist who speaks on behalf of the Russian nation and people, even when the things he says are precisely what many people, at home or abroad, do not want to hear. Zhirinovsky infamously promised voters in 1991 that if he were elected, free vodka would be distributed to all. Similarly, he once remarked, during a political rally inside a Moscow department store, that if he were made president, underwear would be freely available. He has on several occasions been involved in altercations with other politicians and debate opponents. As a candidate, Zhirinovsky also took part in the 2000 and 2008 presidential elections, promising a "police state" *** Zhirinovsky is well known for his boasts pertaining to other countries, having expressed a desire to reunite countries of the ex-Soviet "near abroad" with Russia to within the Russia's borders of 1900 (including Finland and Poland). He also said he's dreaming of a day "when Russian soldiers can wash their boots in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean and switch to year-round summer uniforms", following the Russia's conquest of Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey and occupation of the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean. Zhirinovsky has advocated forcibly retaking Alaska from the United States (which would then become "a great place to put the Ukrainians"), turning Kazakhstan into "Russia's back yard", dumping nuclear waste in Germany and in the Baltic states, provoking wars between the clans and the peoples of the former Soviet Union and occupying what will remain of it when the wars are over, and using nuclear weapons and naval blockade-imposed starvation against Japan. *** In 1999, at the start of the Second Chechen War, Zhirinovsky, the ardent supporter of the first war in Chechnya in the mid-1990s, advocated hitting some Chechen villages with tactical nuclear weapons. In 2006, in answer to the Ramzan Kadyrov's support for polygamy in Chechnya, he said it should be applied across Russia. *** To eradicate bird flu, Zhirinovsky proposed arming all of Russia's population and ordering them and the troops to shoot down the migrant birds returning to Russia from wintering. He has also threatened to remove restrictions on arms sales to Iran and proposed to sell the disputed Kurile Islands to Japan for $50m. Among his early threats, Zhirinovsky claimed Russia possesses "Elipton," a weapon of mass destruction supposedly more powerful than nuclear weapons. *** During the 1992 visit to the United States, Zhirinovsky called on television "for the preservation of the white race" and warned that the white Americans were in danger of turning "their country" over to black and Hispanic people. Besides expressing his hatred for Turks and Caucasians, he also called for the deportation of all Chinese from Russian Far East. *** On the November 2006 death by poisoning of Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko, Zhirinovsky said: "Any traitor must be eliminated using any methods. If you have joined the special services to work, then you should work, but to betray, to run away abroad, to give up the secrets you learned while working - all of this looks bad." In the 2007 election, political patronage from Zhirinovsky enabled Litvinenko murder suspect Andrei Lugovoi to win election to the Russian parliament and thus the formal parliamentary immunity. During the resulting political row between the United Kingdom and Russia, Zhirinovsky accused Great Britain (according to him "the most barbaric country on the planet") of, among other things, fomenting the World War I, the October Revolution, World War II, and the collapse of the Soviet Union, and suggested dropping nuclear bombs over the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to flood Britain. *** Zhirinovsky also has a history of igniting personal violence in political contexts. In his notorious debate with Boris Nemtsov in 1995 a "juice fight" broke out. In 2003, Zhirinovsky engaged in a fistfight after a television debate with Mikhail Delyagin. In 2005, Zhirinovsky ignited a brawl in the parliament by spitting at a Rodina party legislator, Andrei Saveliyev. In 2008, he has showed himself shooting a rifle at the targets representing his political rivals. During the 2008 televised presidential debate, he threatened Nikolai Gotsa, the representative of Democratic Party of Russia candidate Andrei Bogdanov with violence, saying he's going to "smash his head" and ordering his bodyguard to "shoot that bastard over there in the corridor". Gotsa sued Zhirinovsky in civil court for 1 million rubles (approximately US$38,000) in damages and eventually received a judgment of 30,000 rubles (approximately US$1,150). *** Bonus: video of him shooting at crows, dogs and chicken from a train *** TL;DR - okay, skip to the next thread And YES I'm bored. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnifeHits RS Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stresssack Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Smash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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publicenemyno.3 Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 in soviet russia, tits wear you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slept_on Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 even that old bitch on the right is trying to hit that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_gacy Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 COMMUNIST PEOPLE!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swindle Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 "i'm not anti semitic its just a coincidence the students im throwing rocks and mud at are jewish" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
423894 Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 ZING Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClueTwo Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 IN SOVIET RUSSIA YOU ARE THE TITS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Vodka and underwear! Meh, whatever. These types are a dime a dozen. And I appreciate it a lot more than a lying scumbag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire15 Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 I just want to point out that Pet is unappreciated and always has awesome threads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcs Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Vodka and underwear! Meh, whatever. These types are a dime a dozen. And I appreciate it a lot more than a lying scumbag. yea perhaps but this guy is on some other shit. Reclaim Alaska? Bomb the ocean to flood Britain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delonemonkey Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 this guy sounds like hes fucking awesome. His answer to bird flu is to order the army to literally kill every migrating bird. Awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STAN51 Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Thats why i don't live there anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pet Posted October 22, 2009 Author Share Posted October 22, 2009 I just want to point out that Pet is unappreciated and always has awesome threads. WHERE MY PROPS AT BITCHESSS 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
francis buxton Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 Bump this again, just cause. :) :) :) :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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