Why aren't they killing us?

[David Vincent]

Thanks for the decent enough reply.

Can I ask why you trust the Russian state so much? RT is a mouthpiece for them, their only concern is to show Russia in a positive light. Nothing else. I understand you not trusting the BBC for very similar reasons, but trusting one and not the pother seems very strange.

Seeing as you grew up during the Iron Curtain days have you been to any of the countries who were behind it?

The kinds of people who I watch on RT are far more likely to speak their minds than the establishment stooges you get on the BBC. I would call people like George Galloway, Max Keiser and Thom Hartmann interesting independent thinkers. They don't have a pension to lose if they upset the Russian government.

I've never been to any Eastern Bloc countries but where I live I meet many people who have lived there. For example, a maths teacher told me the other day that education in maths and science was far better behind the Iron Curtain than it is today in the UK.