"Gavno," incidentally, means "shit."
--- Andy F <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote:
> (See the original for a photo)
>
>
<http://www.exile.ru/2006-December-15/putins_poison.html>
>
> Putin's Poison
>
> Is it just a coincidence that another truth-seeking
> journalist has
> fallen ill in Vladimir Putin's
> increasingly-authoritarian Russia? The
> evidence says that it's not a coincidence at all.
>
> This past weekend, eXile editor Yasha Levine
> embarked on a daring
> investigative-journalism piece to expose the horrors
> of platzkart, the
> infamous 3rd class Russian train compartments, which
> his bold piece
> compares to "The horrors of the GULAG."
>
> Apparently, someone in the Kremlin did not want the
> truth about
> platzkart to get out. On Mr. Levine's ride out to
> Izhevsk, a
> "friendly" platzkart passenger just happened to
> offer a piece of his
> vobly, or dried fish. Naturally, Mr. Levine took the
> fish and ate it,
> because that's what anyone in his situation would
> do. Within 12 hours,
> Mr. Levine suffered symptoms of food poisoning,
> including stomach
> cramps and diarrhea. Preliminary reports suggest
> that the vobly was
> infected with a highly-secret Russian poison called
> "Gavno-211." But
> despite their evil designs, Mr. Levine could not be
> silenced, as this
> issue's cover story clearly shows.
>
> How very clever and devious of the Kremlin to take
> advantage of Mr.
> Levine's Westernized gullibility; how savage to
> mercilessly poison him
> with a "Gavno-211" isotope, which FSB agents likely
> injected into an
> irresistibly appetizing vobly, a vobly which no man
> in his right mind
> could possibly pass up when offered. Mmm, imagine
> the dried yellowish
> scales, the brittle fins, the hollowed-out eye
> sockets...imagine it,
> and imagine trying to say, "No thank you, I'm not
> hungry now."
> Impossible.
>
> It's time now for even the worst Putin apologist to
> own up to the
> truth: the Kremlin is full of bad people who do bad
> things. And
> they're not even shy about it. For the "mysterious"
> food poisoning of
> Mr. Levine comes just as the world is gripped by the
> suspicious
> poisoning death of Kremlin critic and ex-FSB agent
> Alexander
> Litvinenko, who accused the Kremlin of poisoning him
> and others,
> including Ukraine's pro-American president Viktor
> Yuschenko.
>
> True, there is no concrete evidence yet that the FSB
> or Mr. Putin is
> behind the poison attacks--but there is plenty of
> reason for us to
> accuse him nonetheless. That's because when we
> accuse him, it makes us
> sound like a serious newspaper on a moral crusade.
> Besides, just
> consider the evidence: Mr. Putin is Russian, and he
> has shifty Russian
> facial features. He is not very pro-American, which
> already makes him
> a suspect. Litvinenko, Politkovskaya and Yuschenko
> are all
> pro-American. And they were all poisoned. Do we
> really need to provide
> any more evidence than that? Duh! Of course Putin
> did it.
>
> Besides, many of Putin's critics, especially those
> who live in America
> or our lapdogs in England, say Putin is guilty. It's
> not just us
> Americans, you know! Our lapdogs--they're woofing
> the same thing. It's
> like, who you gonna believe, guys like us, or the
> guy in the Kremlin
> who probably doesn't even have a DVD set of Arrested
> Development? I
> mean, what kind of human being is he?!
>
> It is time to face the obvious and unpleasant truth.
> The Kremlin is
> hatching an evil plot to control and destroy its
> critics, and this
> plot has now hatched its evil chickenness in our
> newspaper. Mr. Levine
> set out to write the truth about platzkart, a truth
> that the Kremlin
> did not want the world to know. By the time he got
> off the train in
> Izhevsk, he was so ill that he couldn't even go to
> the local disco to
> meet Izhevsk's dyevushki.
>
> No one is safe. Today, Yasha Levine has diarrhea;
> tomorrow, you,
> reader, may die in a nuclear inferno. Let's stop
> this madness before
> it stops us.
>
> --
> Andy
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