• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    When Putin goes it will be another 1990s scramble for power and the Russian people will follow whomever is the biggest thug who makes them feel a sense of pride and stability, which is precisely how Putin came to power.

    People forget that before Putin Russia was in economic collapse throughout the 90s. And that all of Russian history the central government been authoritarian and corrupt af

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        1 month ago

        Racist? lmao

        Russia has been a shithole, on par with Alabama or Mississippi, since communism collapsed into gangster-capitalist fascism. And those people keep picking Putin because he tells them it’s someone else’s fault, just like the Republicans back in America.

        It’s cute you that you tried to put a friendly face on that shit sandwich, but it’s still a POS country with way too many fascists to pretend there isn’t something broken with their culture.