Posted on 03/16/2018 5:50:46 AM PDT by C19fan
President Vladimir Putin has appealed to Russians' "love of the fatherland" to encourage them to vote on Sunday, as he seeks to boost turnout at an election he is sure to win.
The Kremlin is seeking high participation to give legitimacy to Putin's inevitable fourth term as opposition leader Alexei Navalny has called for a boycott of a vote he denounces as a sham.
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Besides, why dose he need to appeal?
Bigoted feminists won’t be pleased.
Putin wants to boost turnout.
Election turnout will be the derivative measure of his popularity.
Me too. Very, very unusual twist away from the “Motherland” term that Stalin used in WWII AGAINST the Nazi “Fatherland” attackers
His propaganda failed this time.
Ditto
Communists for mother Russia
Fascists for der Vaterland
Or its fake news?
Mother Russia or Motherland. (You are correct)
“Rodinya”. Motherland.
They still do, which is mighty progressive of them....
Though it could have been transland I suppose...
Canada already made their national anthem gender neutral and there is talk in Germany about removing vaterland from der Deutschlandlied. Same in Norway, were we sing how the men have fought and the women have shed their tears.
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