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Flood of Afghan heroin fuels drug plague in Russia
Tom Lasseter
McClatchy Newspapers
Monday, July 6, 2009
FLASHBACK: Who benefits from the Afghan Opium Trade?
CHELYABINSK, Russia — Young men with sores on their arms shuffled up the stairs of a dark, underground shopping arcade and into the daylight to plop dingy wads of rubles into the drug dealers’ hands. The dealers casually reached into their pockets or plastic shopping bags and handed over tablets of synthetic morphine, a type also used as a horse tranquilizer, and paper packets that appeared to contain heroin.
Across the street in this gray, post-Soviet industrial town, two Russian policemen sat in a faded wooden booth, and a couple more sat in a police truck outside. They didn’t seem the least bit interested.
A police officer walked by but didn’t interrupt the transaction. Asked whether he was worried, one of the dealers, a young man with a white driving cap tipped down over his eyes, leaned back against a railing and giggled.
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In Miass, a small town west of Chelyabinsk near the foothills of the Ural Mountains, Elena Shapkovskaya wasn’t laughing. She works at the No. 40 pharmacy and often has to call the police when heroin addicts crowd the shop and begin shooting up in plain view.
“Sometimes instead of calling the police, we call an ambulance, because they’re lying on the floor,” Shapkovskaya said, looking down at the tile floor beneath her feet.
Drugs have become yet another scourge of post-communist Russia, with millions addicted to heroin and an annual death toll reportedly in the tens of thousands from overdoses and other drug-related causes.
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July 6th, 2009 at 4:58 am
What is more beautiful Than seeing a russian freezes in cold because of ITS addiction
used to be proud brit Reply:
July 6th, 2009 at 5:36 am
Thats nasty
DON`T BE SO FULL OF HATE
WHAT DID A RUSSIAN TAKE YOUR WIFE OFF YOU
THESE PEOPLE PROBABLY WOULD`NT HAVE ACCESS TO IT IF IT WAS`NT FOR UK & US
THAT`S WHY THIS WORLD IS SO MESSED UP BECAUSE OF HATE FOR EACH OTHER
WERE ALL THE SAME IF WE ACTED LIKE IT
THIS WEBSITE WOULD`NT BE HERE
Cincinnatus Reply:
July 7th, 2009 at 3:21 am
well said
July 6th, 2009 at 5:05 am
Pathetic. The police don’t do anything because they don’t want to take any risks AT ALL. And why should they? Besides, they are government workers, so who cares.
July 6th, 2009 at 5:44 am
Those are some really inciteful comments but I would like to say that its an obvious “soft-kill” attack by the CIA, in their minds the US needs to undermine Russian society just in case we need to have a war with them which will be a really huge moneymaking proposition for the military industrial complexes and and all the banks that will loan money for war production. So we have to keep many options open to us with the way they think, this is only one operation among many I’m sure, in Russia and worldwide.
July 6th, 2009 at 7:46 am
Hey! Mc Carthy! And others with similarly poisoned minds.
Not only russian drug users suffer from side effects of afghan war!
Death harvester never rests and it doesn’t care whether you are american
or british
Roadside Blasts Hit NATO Forces in Afghanistan
By VOA News
06 July 2009
NATO officials in Afghanistan say a roadside bomb has killed four foreign soldiers outside the northern city of Kunduz.
An Afghan soldier stands in front of a truck which was damaged when a suicide car bomber struck outside the main NATO base at the airport in Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan, Monday 6 July 2009
An Afghan soldier stands in front of a truck which was damaged when a suicide car bomber struck outside the main NATO base at the airport in Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan, Monday 6 July 2009
Officials did not reveal the names or nationalities of the victims. Local officials say the four were Americans.
In southern Afghanistan, local officials say a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb near the main gate of the regional NATO military base, killing at least two civilians and wounding 14 others.
Military and police officials say the attacker blew himself up near the entrance of the Kandahar Air Field early Monday. Officials say at least 12 civilians and two Afghan soldiers were among the wounded.
The airfield is one of the largest bases for international troops in Afghanistan.
Monday’s attack came days after thousands of U.S. Marines began a major offensive against the Taliban in neighboring Helmand province.
Sunday, U.S. Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said that he is comfortable with the war strategy in Afghanistan, but is open to adjusting U.S. troop levels there.
The Obama administration has ordered the deployment of more troops and trainers to Afghanistan to try to get the Taliban insurgency under control. It also has asked military commanders to better protect Afghan civilians, whose casualties have created friction between Kabul and Washington.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has said that success or failure in Afghanistan will not be determined by military action alone. He said internal economic and political developments also will determine the outcome.
July 6th, 2009 at 8:07 am
This is the same thing that was done to my generation in the 60’s and 70’s around NYC
Get everyone addicted and sick (hepatitis C) then provide the cure for big $$$$
These CRIMINALS need to be STOPED before they destroy another generation of young people !!!!
When the Taliban was in control the poppy production droped to almost nothing
Now that the US Corporation is back they are having the best crop ever !!!
Sick Bastards there is only one thing to do with these low lifes
I think we all know by now what that is !!!!
July 6th, 2009 at 8:43 am
This doesn’t make sense. We control/own(NWO) afghanistan. How could we be growing heroin? That would be like saying the Queen/royal family sold opium to china and took hong kong as payment for heroin.
not a brainwashed idiot Reply:
July 6th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Are yoiu kidding me? your this stupid? the front lines of the war in afghanistan is the poppy fields!!! there will be alot of money made on drugs and the new golden triangle will beome cuba once again! Recon, wake up, your being used! all of our men overseas are being used for $$$,oil, drugs!
Cincinnatus Reply:
July 7th, 2009 at 3:22 am
you are correct sir! If any drug dog got near to the unmarked planes at Bagram, the fucker would be doing backflips. trust me.
July 6th, 2009 at 9:09 am
US army don’t own Afghanistan – quite the opposite, for seven years Afghanistan keep
taking lives of young NATO soldiers.Unmanned planes that bomb local weddings and funerals
there is obvious sign of US army unwillingness to engage in fullscale war with armed Afghans
Yes , US army control some of the opium growing regions just to make heroin flow unstoppable
but not the whole Afghanistan!
July 6th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Lookup the Opium War! We have to learn from history.
July 6th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Ever since we entered Afghanistan, the poppy production has increased!!!..Hello people! You have a new vietnam in Afghanistan and this time we do not own the war, the UN owns it! Tr y to stop it! Try to protest, noone will listen. There will be no end in sight on this war in afghanistan. good morning Vietnam, the Jesuits are in play once again. The terrorist is your own government!!!
July 6th, 2009 at 10:37 am
heres the real truth you fucing morons….osama and the talban..didnt allow drugs or poppie growing…they would burn the fields…so the U.S. just couldnt allow the taliban to stop the flow of their covert drug business…so they had to turn on an old friend and allie…osama bin laden…now weve wnt in and are protecting the poppie fields..and they fly the heroin over in plans..just like vietnam..and put it on the streets..to fund their black programs…thats why dope of any kind will never be legal…get it…
Cincinnatus Reply:
July 7th, 2009 at 3:25 am
ahh see I thought this was ‘Reconmarine’ but it’s ‘recomarine’ his enlightened brother. Well sir you are correct in your previous statement except Opium was still a significant problem and ‘tool’ used during the initial invasion of Afghanistan. It was often traded to local tribals for information. trust me.
July 6th, 2009 at 11:03 am
This is NOT new. I did a research paper on drug abuse in USSR (back in the late 80’s Soviet era). Opiate problems were rampant then as well. Not all from Afghanistan either, The Soviet block is a vast amount of real estate and much of it is prime poppy growing country. Much of the production there is from Soviet block countries.
July 6th, 2009 at 11:05 am
Looks like hidden genocide. Well they deserve it.
Almost half of Russians are alcohol addicted.
Soon they will be also drug addicted.
Weak people will perish and only strong ones will remain.
Law of Nature. Whatever.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
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July 7th, 2009 at 3:01 am
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