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Originally Posted by Nicky91
Trump made America pathetic i know, but at least he has the courage to congratulate Putin on his victory at the elections
others are just immediately thinking of Russia as evil  |
Russian democracy is a sham, though, even moreso than in the West... he doesn't have any realistic political opponents and if one starts to rise they're quickly taken out of the equation. I believe one such potential opponent "mysteriously died"... the other one that I know more about was convicted (probably falsely) of minor fraud. Not even of a serious crime; he is a free man in Russia and an anti-Putin campaigner, but "coincidentally"... if you're convicted of any type of fraud in Russia, you become ineligible to be elected to political office. They've figured out that you don't even need to use violence to eliminate your political opponents... a stroke of a pen will do the trick.