Vladimir Zhirinovsky, founder of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, has died

[Husseinisdoingfine]

Vladimir Zhirinovsky was the founder of the LDPR (Liberal Democratic Party of Russia).

He has passed away April 6, 2022.

 

He was a very brash and clever figure of the Russian far right, as you can see from the videos below of his parliament brawls.

Here he is making a speech on the 27th of December, 2021, where he accurately, precisely predicted the exact date and time of the Ukraine invasion:

 He was a controversial figure for his bizarre conspiracy theories:

"We in the Soviet Union for 70 years fed the national fringes of the country at the expense of the Russians," he said in a fierce diatribe against multiculturalism. "And in 1991, when they made a fuss and started shouting that they were leaving the USSR, the Russians didn't come out to defend the country, simply because they didn't understand that it was their land."

According to the 75-year-old political veteran, an almost identical scenario is now unfolding in the US. "There are no national fringes there, but there are African Americans, Mexicans, non-whites in general, who are already dictating their will, and whites are increasingly forbidden to talk about their rights, their culture, their history."

Zhirinovsky went on to declare that in ten years, white people will become the minority and will be evacuated to nearby Canada, as well as Australia and other parts of the world. "They might even ask us to settle a few million people somewhere in Siberia," he speculated.

 

[vizual]

This dude obviously talked a lot of smack but he’s spot on that it’s a sin nowadays to glorify Caucasian culture and history in any way. It’s a sure way to get “cancelled”. And it goes even further than that, contemporary Caucasians are even pressured to apologize for the past deeds of their ancestors. Which is just madness of course. Especially as the people of these “diverse” backgrounds are reaping the benefits of the free world that these ancestors have built.

Respect and understanding is a two way street. 

[T_i_m]

He was the only funny and charismatic guy in modern Russian government. His contribution to Russian humor and meme culture is priceless. Terrible loss. Rest in Peace.

[Vrubel]

He was a Putin suck-up. There was nothing particularly intelligent about his politics. What good did he contribute? 

[Fleetinglife]

This guy was like the biggest psychological cope mechanism and make believe opportunist impostor, pretender imaginable in recent, modern Russian political history memory, and a fairly tragic one at that, a man of Jewish roots, heritage and origin LARPing as a Russian Orthodox ultranationalist, lobbying for the Russian government on the part of it's disputes and PR presentation of Ukraine and doing PR for it in Israel regarding it's near domestic and foreign policy goals and objectives, until fairly recently:

"Zhirinovsky was born in Almaty, the capital of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, modern-day Kazakhstan. His father, Volf Isaakovich Eidelshtein, was a Ukrainian Jew from Kostopil in western Ukraine, and his mother, Alexandra Pavlovna (née Makarova), was of Russian background from Mordovia region.

Zhirinovsky only inherited his surname through Andrei Vasilievich Zhirinovsky, Alexandra's first husband. His paternal grandfather was a wealthy industrialist in Kostopil, who owned the largest sawmill in (what is now) Ukraine and was head of the Jewish community.

His grandfather's mill today has an income of $32 million a year, and over the years Zhirinovsky demanded successive Ukrainian governments return it to him.

In July 1964, Zhirinovsky moved from Almaty to Moscow, where he began his studies in the Department of Turkish Studies, Institute of Asian and African Countries at Moscow State University (MSU), from which he graduated in 1969. Additionally, he studied law and international relations at the Institute of Marxism-Leninism. Zhirinovsky entered military service in Tbilisi during the early 1970s and worked at posts in state committees and unions. He was awarded a Dr.Sci. in philosophy by MSU in 1998.

Although he participated in some reformist groups, Zhirinovsky was little known in Soviet political developments during the 1980s. While he contemplated a role in politics, a nomination attempt for a seat as a People's Deputy in 1989 was quickly abandoned.

In 1989, he served as a director of Shalom, a Jewish cultural organization; unknown in Jewish circles before, he is thought to have been invited to join by the Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public, but subsequently forcefully opposed its influence in the group.

Jewish heritage

Four of Zhirinovsky's relatives were murdered during the Holocaust. Zhirinovsky's parents split while he was still an infant. Abandoning the family, Zhirinovsky's father, Volf Eidelshtein, emigrated to Israel in 1949 (together with his new wife Bella and his brother), where he worked as an agronomist in Tel Aviv. Zhirinovsky's father was a member of the right-wing nationalist Herut party in Israel, and died in 1983 when he was run over by a bus near Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv.

Zhirinovsky did not find out the details of his father's life in Israel until many years later, or even that he had died.

Zhirinovsky said that he was an Orthodox Christian.

In 1994, presented with a birth certificate indicating his original name as Eidelshtein, Zhirinovsky said the document was faked.

Zhirinovsky denied his father's Jewish origins until Ivan Close Your Soul, published in July 2001, in which he described how his father, Volf Isaakovich Eidelshtein, changed his surname from Eidelshtein to Zhirinovsky. He rhetorically asked, "Why should I reject Russian blood, Russian culture, Russian land, and fall in love with the Jewish people only because of that single drop of blood that my father left in my mother's body?"

According to Zhirinovsky, "My mother was Russian and my father was a lawyer". Zhirinovsky later disowned the statement after researching his father's life in Israel. Discussing the statement, Zhirinovsky says: "Journalists mocked me: for saying I was the son of a lawyer. And I am really the son of an agronomist." Discussing his father, Zhirinovsky said with tears in his eyes: "All my life I was looking for him. I believed that he was alive. I believed that someday he would find me... But there is a silver lining. I tried to imitate him... And I was able to achieve a certain position in life, even without the support of my father."

Zhirinovsky Israeli relatives included an uncle and cousin, meeting and befriending them for the first time only after discovering more about his family's story in Israel. Zhirinovsky's Israeli family did not know that he was a politician in Russia but responded warmly to his invitation to stay with him in Moscow."

source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Zhirinovsky

R.I.P. Vladimir Volfovich Eidelshtein, Zhirinovsky

 

Edited April 9, 2022 by Fleetinglife

[T_i_m]

1 hour ago, Vrubel said:

He was a Putin suck-up. There was nothing particularly intelligent about his politics. What good did he contribute? 

He warned everyone about the  planned time and date of the invasion two months before it started and perhaps paid with his life. You should at least thank him for that.

[Vrubel]

@T_i_m  According to what sources?

[T_i_m]

4 minutes ago, Vrubel said:

@T_i_m  According to what sources?

there's the video in the first post

[Vrubel]

Do you mean he rambled too much (as always) or did he really try to warn everybody in a conscientious way?

[T_i_m]

12 minutes ago, Vrubel said:

Do you mean he rambled too much (as always) or did he really try to warn everybody in a conscientious way?

I can't know that for sure. I would guess that this eccentric rambling front was also a way to spill more truth then you'd normally be allowed. Intentionally or not? I haven't been watching the guy that much to be certain. I've heard people who knew  him personally saying that  he was more sophisticated then he tried to seem.

[Husseinisdoingfine]

 

[Eternal Unity]

On 9.4.2022 at 3:23 AM, T_i_m said:

He was the only funny and charismatic guy in modern Russian government. His contribution to Russian humor and meme culture is priceless. Terrible loss. Rest in Peace.

+1

[vladorion]

He got vaccinated against covid 8 times and died of covid. 

[pedro23]

Some of his very balanced, stage yellow - turquoise takes: 

Zhirinovsky is known for his controversial statements. For example, he said there was a need to open brothels in Russia for young people to distract young Russians from protest activities.

Zhirinovsky also said Russia should attack Ukraine without declaring war and slaughter everyone who serves in Ukraine's armed forces.[

Zhirinovsky also called for a nuclear strike against Iceland to intimidate the Western world, and against Istanbul in revenge for 2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown.