Igor Korotchenko, editor-in-chief of Natsionalnaya Svoboda magazine: This story shows us London's deep inferiority complex toward Russia. By raising her flag in the British Parliament and announcing the beginning of a new crusade against Russian military intelligence Theresa May ended up in an awkward situation. I was closely watching the facial expression and hand gestures of President Putin when he asked those two Russian citizens, Petrov and Boshirov, whom England considers to be Skripal's poisoner, to knock on a door of some news agency and tell everything their biography their occupation and what they were doing in the UK. I don't know all the details but Putin's face made me realize that it will be one heck of an information riposte against May and Britain that'll make them look ridiculous.
You see, the strategy of judo and similar martial arts is to use the force of the enemy to defeat him. Soon, in a week perhaps, we'll hear some breaking news which might even lead to a government crisis in the UK caused by the facts that the British Prime Minister is incompetent and that British intelligence forges evidence. It'll be proven that Russia, represented by those two citizens, has nothing to do with Skripal's case. I'd like to say it in advance: all those recent theories, including some mysterious Apollo agent, and those four Russian illegal immigrants who allegedly helped to poison Skripal entered the UK using fake EU passports while being Russian citizens and organized the operation's support are nothing more than escape routes. They know that they're going to get a tooth-rattling information punch to the gut when the story of those two is revealed.
- A tooth-rattling gut punch sounds brutal.
- They are preparing…
- Yeah, I know, it just sounds funny.
- A punch to the gut that goes all the way to the teeth.
- They are preparing escape routes in advance.
- I know how to do it with a right hook.
- They claim there are some other people, a whole assassin network, and so on. In reality, Britain realizes that the era of its massive secret intelligence service, the MI5 counter-intelligence service, and undercover agents like Sidney Reilly, who was sent to Russia and whom we captured and executed without Britain knowing about it, is almost over. Those are the last gasps of the glory of British intelligence. The General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian Federation doesn't do assassinations. It's a powerful instrument for acquiring and assessing information that allows the General Staff to monitor what's happening outside of Russia and what military programs, weapons systems, or combat training methods used by NATO and other countries might threaten our country.
London's deep inferiority complex is what defines May's foolish and ridiculous attacks against our military intelligence.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, LDPR: You love to call everyone a Jew. I'm Russian, get it?!
- That's okay, calm down…
- I'm Russian! And you're a Jew! You want to call everyone a Jew! Get it into your damn head, we're Russians! You Jews, go to Israel! We're Russians. That's it.
- Great idea, but not now.
- Jews, Jews, Jews. This is Russia! Russia. Go to Israel! You'll find plenty of Jews there.
- You'll have to answer for your words in court.
- That's what you always say! You just run to the courts! Cheka! Arrests! Gulags! Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!
- Thank you for your assessment, but please, calm down. I can say one thing…
- I'll never participate in a show with him ever again. He's a rascal! Never again! He's the biggest sleazebag the world's ever seen. The people didn't elect you! You were appointed. You got everything you have from the KGB! You work for them, leak them the information they need, and throw people in prisons. And you're standing here with that smirk…
- One's still running free. We haven't yet caught one man.
- That's right.
- Please, get it over with the Jews.
- You'll pay for calling me a rascal.
- Thank you, Mr. Zhirinovsky, but we'd like to hear something else today. I get it!
- Those rascals…
- Oh, please! You'll pay for those words. You'll pay for them.
- I'm also a Jew, but I'm not going to Israel because I'm a Russian Jew.
- That's fine, stay here. But don't call people Jews if they are not.
- I don't.
- We're not discussing ethnicities here. Go discuss them with somebody else in a banya.
- A banya? Really?
- We won't discuss that.
Igor Korotchenko: Russian intelligence…
- Oh, right, we were talking about Skripal.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky: Here's your Skripal. He's responsible for all of the provocations. Don't bother with Skripal. The poor old man is probably dead by now. I'll try to draw together... The Khinshteins mess everything up! The Khinshteins are the true Skripals.
Igor Korotchenko: If I can, I'll try to draw together the hot debate between the two well-respected deputies... Two state officials.
- Be careful, he'll throw you in prison.
- The leader of the party…
- This descendant of Dzerzhinsky…
- I've got nothing to be imprisoned for.
- The leader of LDPR and the bright star of Russian parliamentarism Alexander Khinshtein.
- Speaking of Dzerzhinsky I'd like to return to that character from a professional point of view Why does the Federal Security Guard Service respect Felix Dzerzhinsky? There's only one reason. They respect his professionalism. In just 1.5 — 2 years he created a counter-intelligence network that managed to outplay the famous SIS. The plot of the ambassadors was exposed by the young Cheka. The undercover agent Sidney Reilly who was sent here by MI6 to organize terrorist attacks and a coup was detained, arrested, and exposed. Other major figures of British intelligence... Counteracting MI6 was our priority until the CIA appeared. After that, the Americans became our priority. Dzerzhinsky showed his professionalism. The intelligence and counter-intelligence procedures he created are still used by us. That's why he's respected and revered: not for his deeds but for his professionalism that he showed as the chief of the professional intelligence service whose modern successors are our national security agencies. Speaking of Britain, it's not ideal either.
- What about his adherence to principles?
- Right. And the elimination of homelessness among children. He eliminated it in 3-4 years.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky: The kids were homeless because their fathers were executed!
- The Civil War.
- And who started it? The Communists did. You did. Nobody needed you in charge. You seized the power and…
- Igor will finish his speech after a small commercial break. A small break. Please, Igor, finish your speech.
- There was a crisis in our relations with Britain. Remember the 1920s, there were ultimatums, Curzon and other British lords from their Foreign Office were threatening us, prime ministers were threatening us, Russian businessmen working in London were arrested, and 105 Russian diplomats were expelled. We expelled their diplomats in response. The British agents had several failures the first double agent recruited by the British was Colonel Penkovsky. There were other traitors.
- And the Cambridge Five?
- That's right.
- Answering Mr. Zhirinovsky's question about their generals living in Russia. Some British generals did live in Russia. Take the Cambridge Five for instance.
- The British here, the Soviet there.
- Speaking of our current operations in terms of acquiring information sources that allow us to understand the plans of the countries that plot against Russia they won't be disclosed any time soon if they will be disclosed at all. In general, the Russian intelligence network is working efficiently. The West, particularly the UK and the US, are hysterical. Why are they hysterical? Why are they trying to accuse us of some social media operations? Why do they make these clumsy foolish steps? Because they understand that our agents work professionally. They can't catch them, so they throw tantrums.
- But they achieve their goals though.
- You know, they actually don't.
- They impose one set of sanctions after another. They achieve their goals, getting money for their military budgets.
- There were sanctions in the 1920s, but when the common enemy appeared they ran to us begging to join them in their fight against Hitler.
Now, speaking about Theresa May many people wonder if a British Prime Minister can lie. Of course, she can! Remember Blair.
- That's an odd question.
- Remember Blair who blatantly deceived the whole world and his own nation when he said that he had sufficient evidence that Saddam Hussein was preparing something like a biological attack against the UK. That was the reason Britain and the US started that war in Iraq. They do lie! Throughout history, Britain has been famous for its poisoners. Check out those mysterious murders. A chopped up British cipher officer was found in a bag that was locked from the outside. The investigation concluded that he killed himself, crawled in the bag, and zipped it. You see? Multiple dead Russian oligarchs and businessmen.
- Yeah, when they suddenly start writing repentant letters…
- That's what I'm talking about. In Berezovsky's case, it was a classic assassination, not a suicide. It raised various questions. When Berezovsky requested political asylum in the UK he personally met the British prime minister at 10 Downing Street and shared the secrets of the Kremlin politics. He closely cooperated with the MI6 in terms of…
- That's clear, but what will they do this time?
- That's simple. Two Russian citizens will expose their scheming. We're looking forward to hearing that world-scale sensation.
- They won't believe them anyway. Look, Britain has already stated that Russia is always lying, they know that GRU agents did it and their allies will support them. At the UN Security Council, we report an upcoming provocation. And they respond saying that there have already been chemical attacks. But they can't name a single casualty. Six people were injured during the first chemical attack. Nine injured during the second one. Is there some new chemical weapon that doesn't kill anyone? But that's irrelevant. Their main goal is to blame us: Russia is bad, Russia violates all international laws, Russia is an outcast-state, the Cold War.
