Gordon M. Hahn — SATTER’S HALLUCINATIONS: Next New Low in American Rusology and Journalism

Gordon Hahn takes down a WSJ hit piece. WSJ is owned by Rupert Murdoch.

On January 21st the Wall Street Journal’s editors allowed on its editorial pages an opinion piece with one of the most glaring distortions of post-Soviet Russian history and politics ever produced by contemporary American ‘rusology.’ David Satter issued forth yet another of his caricatures of analysis in an exegesis from which he hoped readers would take away: ‘eternally totalitarian, imperialistic, and murderous Russia.’ The only murder here, however, was Satter’s murder of truth and the historical record. In addition to an uniformed analysis of the complicated and unresolved Litvinenko case as well as Russian politics under President Vladimir Putin, he issued forth both a full-fledged perversion of politics under Russia’s first post-Soviet president Boris N. Yeltsin and a complete inversion of the history of October 1993.

Russian and Eurasian Politics–Gordon M. Hahn

SATTER’S HALLUCINATIONS: Next New Low in American Rusology and Journalism
Gordon M. Hahn