[from the Daily Mail, UK, 4 Aug 2007.]
[Comment: What this shows is that there are people around Putin who know their history. But it appears that discourse in Russia is still not completely free - note how Miliband is accused of "anti-Sovietism", rather than anti-Russianism. Miliband's grandfather was fighting for Trotsky, and thus was pro-Soviet and anti-Russian.]
A key adviser to President Vladimir Putin accused Foreign Secretary David Miliband of 'anti-Russian racism' over his handling of the Alexander Litvinenko affair.
It was claimed Mr Miliband let his personal views cloud his judgment in the recent tit-for-tat diplomat expulsion row over the murder of ex-KGB operative Litvinenko.
Last month the Foreign Secretary expelled Russian diplomats from Britain after the Kremlin refused to sanction the extradition of the prime suspect in the murder case.
President Putin responded by throwing out several British Embassy officials and banning visas for other UK diplomats.
Now Russian political analyst Gleb Pavlovsky, who is close to the Russian President, has claimed Mr Miliband inherited anti-Russian sentiments from his family.
The comments were last night being viewed as a sign of Moscow's bitterness towards Britain over the Litvinenko affair and the UK Government's refusal to extradite tycoon Boris Berezovsky to Moscow.
The attack came in Russian nationalist newspaper Tvoi Den. Mr Pavlovsky said: "David Miliband's hatred for Russia was inherited from his grandfather."
The newspaper said that in the Twenties the Foreign Secretary's grandfather, Samuel, then Shimon, Miliband, a native of the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, had fought under the command of Trotsky 'eliminating' white Russians opposed to Communism.
He later came to England with his son Ralph, who became a Marxist academic, and whose sons David and Ed now serve in the Cabinet.
"David absorbed anti-Sovietism, as the saying goes, with his mother's milk," said Mr Pavlovsky.
On May 22, 2007, British officials charged Andrei Lugovoi, a former KGB official, with Litvinenko's murder, announcing they would seek his extradition from Russia.
But a Russian official stated it was against the Russian constitution to perform extraditions of its citizens. Lugovoi denies any involvement.
Submitted by kula.kundalini on Sun, 2007-08-05 13:45
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the 'dance' between the Russians and zionists needs to be followed VERY carefully, as the fate of the world may turn on its outcome.
BTW, in your comment, you said: "note how Miliband is accused of "anti-Sovietism", rather than anti-Russianism."
I thought he was accused of being anti-Russian and pro-Soviet . . .
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"Money" has no value - people do.
The implication - since this claim was made in a NATIONALIST newspaper, is that Miliband is "anti-RUSSIAN" in the sense of being a COMMUNIST.