... and Putin wasn't?
]]>It also seems to me that once a certain style of government gets embedded in a nation's psyche, trying to get rid of it is like trying to get the lead out of a sample of polonium; it doesn't matter what you do, the same flavour always comes back. Russia defaults to Boskonian principles because that's how it's been for centuries, and it takes more than a change of name to alter the basic style.
]]>Even they don't take that long adapting to the craziness inherent in "the system". There's an old saying:
“You don't have to be crazy to work here, but it helps.”]]>
One of them might even be true.
]]>Pick any conspiracy you like, it’s probably as true as any of the others...
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