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From Open Ukraine: (my quick translation)
While Alpha Bank is trying to regain access to its billions abroad, the Ukrainian branch is calmly raising money for the Ukrainian armed forces and even brags about it on social media.
I’m going to jump in right here. There’s more information about to be presented, but there’s no explanation given as to why Alpha Bank is behaving so unpatriotically.
Allow me to cut through the bullshit again by spitting some straight facts at you.
Fact #1: The name of the owner of Alpha Bank is Michael Fridman.
A face you can trust.
Do I really need to say more? His name is literally Freedman, guys. Do you know many Russians with the last name Fri/eedman? Do you know what group of people often has the last name Freedman? What do you know about this group of people’s relationship with Russia?
Mystery solved. Case closed. No need for Facts 2, 3 and 4.
The purpose of the program offered by the bank is to provide financial help to the army of Ukraine in the form of bonuses and money transfers, even though this goes against what Michael Freedman, born in Lvov, said about the need to not allow conflict between Ukraine and Russia. The bank has begun selling the war bonds of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Alpha Bank branch is transferring money that is needed by the army, and not for humanitarian reasons. Literally financing rocket strikes on Donetsk. Does the Russian branch of Alpha bank support the Russian army in this way? [Note: No.]
The problem of Alpha financing the Ukrainian army was already brought up in the Duma in 2016, but then was quickly swept under the rug.
Imagine if the Russian government actually managed to get its act together and stopped subsidizing its internal enemies. At the very least, patriotic organizations should organize a boycott of Alpha and encourage other citizens to put their money into … hmm … Sberbank? The one run by Herman Greff, a literal homosexual Kabbalah practitioner and COVID-hoaxer? Or how about Tinkoff? You know, the bank run by Oleg Tinkov who denounced the special operation in Ukraine?
Seems like Russia is a bit low on patriotic bankers … how surprising. They’re also low on patriotic pop stars, journalists, and oligarchs. All the usual suspects seem to be siding with the Liberal World Order. It’s almost as if they are, by nature, enemies of the people.
Russians ought to just buy gold or put their money into Bitcoin while its still so low.
Patriotic banker is an oxymoron and always has been. There's a reason traditional societies held the merchant class in contempt and reserved political power for warrior aristocracies.
Gref is also on the WEF board of trustees