Lubyanka Criminal Group
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Lubyanka Criminal Group is a book by Alexander Litvinenko and Alexander Goldfarb about the alleged transformation of the Russian Security Services into a criminal and terrorist organization. [1]
In the book, the authors claim that Russian president Vladimir Putin and other FSB officers have been involved in organized crime, including covering up drug traffic from Afganistan. [2]
The book was withdrawn from sales in Russia by request from the FSB [3] according to The Moscow Human Rights News Agency Prima News. In response, the authors had withdrawn from their copyright. The book can be freely printed and reproduced by anyone [4]. "By banning the book for the first time since the Soviet times, FSB threw down a challenge to the society", said co-author Alexander Goldfarb, the executive director of International Foundation for Civil Liberties who made a contract for the distribution of that book.
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[edit] Praise and criticism of the book
Viktor Suvorov, author of "Icebreaker" said that the book is "Terrifying, gripping and instructive" Viktor Suvorov [1]. According to Suvorov, "Litvinenko described a leading criminal group that provides "protection" for all other organized crime in the country and which continues the criminal war against their own people", like their KGB and NKVD predecessors. "Book proves: Lubyanka was taken over by the enemies of the people (who else would put their own people on the needle and blow up sleeping children?)" [1]. "If Putin's team can not disprove the facts provided by Litvinenko, Putin must shoot himself. Patrushev and all other leadership of Lubyanka Criminal Group must follow his example".
"Litvinenko eloquently depicts that what was long considered to be the "shield and sword" of the communist party is in reality a huge criminal mechanism," according to former Soviet prisoner of conscience Vladimir Bukovsky [1].
According to review of Prima News, "the way Litvinenko sees it, the FSB is clearly a criminal and even terrorist organization. And not only because of apartment explosions or alleged conspiracy against Berezovsky. Litvinenko is certain that security services were behind the murder of Galina Starovoitova, a prominent figure in Russia's democracy movement, and the death of Anatoly Sobchak,and many, many other things."[1]
[edit] The book
- A. Litvinenko and A. Goldfarb. Lubyanka Criminal Group (Russian) GRANI, New York, 2002. ISBN 978-0-9723878-0-4.
- А. Литвиненко [5] 2002 (Full text in Russian)
[edit] References
[edit] Reviews of the book
- The FSB as a criminal grouping by Andrei Antonov
