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Sashadroogie · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 12:36 pm Post subject: Metro bombings

Glad I don't use the metro in the mornings any more...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8592224.stm

Zajko · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 12:53 pm Post subject:

Me too. Used to get off at Lubyanka almost every Monday morning at right about the time the bomb went off there today. Thoughts and prayers for anyone and everyone affected, FWIW. One of those things that just doesn't bear thinking about until it actually happens.

kazachka · Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 220 Location: Moscow and Alaska

A girlfriend's HS classmate was killed at Park Kultury. He was her brother's best friend:-(He had a wife and 3 yr old son. Another girlfriend's dad was on the train that blew up at the Lubyanka. He was in the first car,the bomb was in the second as we already know. He, thankfully is ok. I go through Kuznetsky Most(opposite side of Lubyanka) every day. I don't have MW morning classes, but am not crazy about being in the metro all the time now. Anything the authorities do is only cosmetic anyways.

maruss · Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 1145 Location: Cyprus

Better never to mention subjects like Chechnya,especially in public-Anna P. did and look what happened to her!Like many problems,the only real solution is to deal with the cause rather than the symptoms,but that would involve having to face-up to a lot of things the Russian regime does not even want to admit exist, let alone analyse them.... but until they do horrendous incidents like Mondays metro bombings will continue to be a threat,especially when you have seventeen year old fanatical girl school kids brainwashed into commiting suicide in public and taking innocent people with them!
Ask people who lived in places like Northern Ireland when the I.R.A. where active and they will tell you how it feels...
Sorry to post this at Easter but I feel its relevant if people want to live in peace and security.Take care everyone.

Sashadroogie · Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 12:24 pm Post subject:

Maruss, I"m not sure that that analogy quite holds water. Any more than drawing a parallel to the divided society where you live would.

Happy Easter.

maruss · Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 1145 Location: Cyprus

The Chechens and other minorities in the Soviet Union were treated appallingly by Stalin and consequently feel they have a grudge against Russia,but unfortunately Russia has never been an open society where the mistakes of the past have been openly aired and debated,except possibly for a brief period at the beginning of the Yeltsin era.People with grievances are easy targets for fanatical extremist groups like Al Khaida to exploit and this,unfortunately is what has happened with Chechnya.But trying even harsher repression will not resolve this situation and it will not just go away...this is what people such as Anna Politkovskaya tried to explain and we all know what happened to her....
As for the comparison with the situation in Cyprus,this is another can of worms,but fortunately it has not been exploited by fanatical extremists,as least not after 1974!

beachbum · Joined: 24 Apr 2009 Posts: 5 Location: Australia

So sorry to hear about the bombings. The year I was there I was at Park Kultury almost every day. I never did feel comfortable riding the metro with all the unrest around that area. It does not give anyone the right to blow up innocent people no matter what their past.