The Assassination Of Boris Nemtsov

    Fear is intimidating. Fear can be used to persuade you, which is exactly what the Nazi Party and the Salem Witch trials did. Fear is controlling and will overcome your life unless you put a stop to it. “The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but it is

Angst! Peur! Miedo! Страх! Fear! Regardless of what language it is said in, fear carries the same meaning. As some may say, fear is what can be seen throughout the United States of America as President Trump takes his first days in the White House. This fear has come from the idea that the social transformation Barack Obama has begun since his first day in office, eight years ago, may be coming to an end. Disregarding what may happen next in politics, fear has helped to expose the problems that today’s society has related to human rights. It can be seen in today’s news that; this exposure has motivated people to join arms and push for change. Jaswinder Bolina is one of those people. In his article “Writing Like a White Guy” Bolina dives

During his career, He made more enemies. Hoffa was known to be one of the most powerful men in the country at the time and still. Of course because of his union leadership, many working Americans considered Hoffa as their hero. But it is believed that one of his enemies may have had something to do with his disappearance in 1975. During that year on July 30th. Hoffa left Detroit for a meeting with a local crime figure and a mob-connected union leader that was from New Jersey. The met at a restaurant in Bloomfield Township. They met up so they could try settling a feud. But Hoffa was the only person who showed up. The people don’t know what happen to the Mob boss. But his car was found in the restaurant 's parking lot. But there also were no clues to Hoffa 's whereabouts. Years later, Hoffa was declared legally dead in 1982.

Masha Gessen is a Russian journalist who is known for her opposition to current Russian President Vladimir Putin. Gessen gives the reader key details into Putin’s background as a child all the up until Putin becomes President. She delves into how Putin’s secret police work was his claim to fame and how he became recognized by then President Boris Yeltsin. The author’s thesis is that Putin was always a violent person and would do whatever it took to be in charge. The author claims it started from his childhood and that is how he acts now as the Russian leader.

Politicians have used fear during a time full of a sense of disorder in order to gain popularity. The reaction to fear is universal and everyone is susceptible to it, forcing them to seek refuge/comfort. Political candidates then take advantage and paint themselves as a form of refuge. This makes fear a favorable strategy for politicians to gain popularity votes. Fear has the power to persuade voters more than any other strategies as seen in modern day politics and in 1964.

In Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?, Karen Dawisha relates Russian President Vladmir Putin’s rise to power. She overarchingly claims that Putin is an authoritarian leader who has obstructed and even reverted Russia’s path of democratization, citing, amongst many factors that enabled his ascension, his “interlocking web of personal connections in which he was the linchpin” (100), money-laundering to tax havens and personal projects, and the complicity of the West. With copious research, journalistic interviews, legal documents, and even sporadic informational diagrams, it is evident why her book is so popular amongst scholars and history enthusiasts. Unfortunately however, in spite of the grand yet oftentimes substantiated claims she generates, a more subtle yet noteworthy assumption is made: that the state is a protector, as Olson proffered. She employs this theoretical underpinning from the beginning, though is not representative of Putin’s actual authoritarian regime.

Alexander Litvinenko was a former officer of the Russian FSB secret service who specialised in tackling organised crime. In November 1998, Litvinenko and several other FSB officers publicly accused their superiors of ordering the assassination of the Russian tycoon and oligarch Boris Berezovsky. Litvinenko was arrested the following March on charges of exceeding the authority of his position. He was acquitted in November 1999 but re-arrested before the charges were again dismissed in 2000. He fled with his family to London and was granted asylum in the United Kingdom, where he worked as a journalist, writer and consultant for the British intelligence services. He was later poisoned for a justified but morally wrong reason.

According to C.Joybell C, “The unhappiest people in this world are those who care the most about what other people think” (Goodreads). I can see this in my life and also in Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich. The main character Ivan Ilyich is dying from and unknown disease and while suffering finds himself reflecting on his life choices. Ivan consistently questions himself in the text, such as in his statement “What if my life has all been wrong?” (775). He struggles with the idea that his life might have been a waste and that he really did not get to live. Ivan has always made decisions based off of society’s rules and not his own. In fact, he directly quotes this in the text,” It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false” (776). Ivan Ilyich was never a man who thought for himself or let alone went off impulse. He always thought about what people around him would do or think about his decisions.

During the power struggle in Russia, an escaped prisoner of the name Lev Bronstein, was murdered on August 20th, 1940 by Ramon Mercader. Bronstein was a Russian marxist who went against Stalin’s beliefs. He was forced to leave the country by Stalin’s wishes. However, before he left he accomplished many things such as helping the Bolsheviks into power and creating the South Russian Workers Union.

“The father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, Andrei Sakharov, was awarded the Peace Prize in 1975 for his opposition to the abuse of power and his work for human rights” (Andrei). When he was with the Soviet Union, he believed that it was important to break the American Monopoly on weapons. Until issued warnings against the consequence of the arms race. As the result, Sakharov was then put on surveillance watch and lost all of his honorable titles that he had earned. Then leaders of the Soviet Union did not allow Andrei Sakharov to travel to receive the prize. So his wife received it in his behalf. In 1985 was allowed to return to Moscow in 1985 when Gorbachev came into power (Andrei).

On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were shot dead in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a member of a Serbian nationalist group called the Black Hand. The Black Hand was derived from a secret Serbian terrorist organization called the Narodna Odbrana, which worked towards the unification of all South Slavs in an independent, sovereign country called Yugoslavia. The Narodna Odbrana was created because South Slavs living in Serbia, as well as in Bosnia and other Slavic provinces, felt a strong nationalistic desire to unify all the members of their cultural group in a new country called Yugoslavia. The Black Hand’s commitment to Serbian nationalism led it to replace the Narodna Odbrana, while adopting its purpose, organization, and terrorist philosophy. Members of the Black Hand, driven by their desire to die as martyrs, assassinated Franz Ferdinand to quickly set the tone for a revolution meant to weaken the powerful state of Austria-Hungary and unite all South Slavs in a Yugoslavic nation.

“By uniting us against a common enemy, fear also brings humans together. It has a preserve yet delicious binding quality. It's for this reason that we love to spread fearful rumors, sometimes blowing them out of all proportion just to heighten the sense of danger." (33. Brandwashed)

Fear describes as the absolute best weapon to use to manipulate others. The feels of terror can drive people into doing or accepting anything. When people have a certain interest into influencing other people to react a certain way, through fear portrays the best way to obtain their attention.

Political dissident Noam Chomsky expressed that "counter-fear mongering is psychological warfare by another name." We should counter-fear based oppression - keeping in mind the end goal to maintain human rights and give weight, assets, and need to it (Canaan, 2016). Military and secret organizations singularly work from a consequentiality perspective, with a usual way of doing things that signifies that their objectives

The government’s postponement of broadcasting Karimov’s death may raise eyebrows, but rather it sheds light on the fears of the regime. Considering that in its 25 years of existence, Uzbekistan has never held democratic elections and that nearly half of the country’s 32 million citizens have only lived under Karimov, such a delay in announcing the Uzbekistani leader’s death signifies that the regime is concerned about maintaining the status quo. Unfortunately for its citizens, its neighbors in Central Asia, and leaders around the world, Uzbekistan’s status quo is malicious, progressively inert and undeniably criminal. Though it has been