Posted on 03/17/2018 5:17:22 PM PDT by goldstategop
Sure kept American trolls out of the loop.
They’re using paper ballots in Russia.
No voting machines to hack.
I expect there to be vote fraud but with Putin’s overwhelming margin, it wouldn’t affect the overall result.
The winner should be projected the moment all the nationwide polls have closed.
Nothing stops Chicagoan's from stuffing ballot boxes and rigging elections.......
Just ask old man Daley who rigged the Illinois election from a corner bar on Archer Avenue in the Bridgeport Neighborhood when his union buddies stole more than 50 ballot boxes, re-directed them, emptied them and stuffed them with ballots for JFK in 1960.
We know how to fix elections, dammit!!
Why? Don't you want to get rid of Hilliary out of our country?
Please don’t get it twisted. I am a Christian and I want nothing to do with *godless* Putin hijacking a beautiful culture and wrapping his agenda in counterfeit Christianity.
He and his ex KGB plus oligarchs cronies have hijaked Russian Orthodoxy too.
Please don’t apply the same “conservative” and “liberal” labels to this issue. Goes much deeper than that.
I hope we’re at least meddling some
Anyone notice how the media weren’t even going to touch the Russian campaign.
It goes to the split between those who see Russia as different, the Third Rome, the mother of Orthodox and Slavic culture and those who want Russia be more Western and European in outlook.
That’s a debate far from settled and while the collapse of Communism restored Russian statehood, the ultimate question of Russia’s direction remains open.
Yes I definitely want to export HilLIARy. But to Guantanamo not to Russia. On s fond rhought, they’d just toss her into a Siberian gulag. So yes, we could send her to Russia !!
The conflict right now is between modernized *Stalinism* vs. Judeo-Christian democratic society.
And there is no place for Bolshevik Stalinism in a truly Christian civilization.
Vegas odds:
Vladimir Putin (0/1)
Vladimir Zhirinovsky (55/1)
And yes the Soviet Union had “elections” too.
The Communists get between 10-15% of the vote.
Russians know who they are from experience and left-wing ideology has limited appeal in Russia.
While Americans talk about we need to try socialism.
Whatever one thinks of Putin’s Russia, there is no mood to return to the Soviet days.
I said STALINISM not Marxism-Leninism. PUTIN is a neo-STALINIST even if not commmunist.
Which were sham elections until the first free elections were held in 1989 and multiparty elections were legalized somewhat later.
Totalitarianism is gone but competitive democracy is still very much a long term work in progress. After all, its been like a generation since the Soviet Union disappeared.
Will Trump interfere in their election???? :-) Maybe he will try to help the Greens Party defeat the Reds Party!!
Soviet nostalgia is huge in Russia even amidst the glittery externals. It doesn’t require living there to figure that out. Just a few conversations.
You live there long enough. You realize the core of the system never truly died and in terms of the State there was never any real break after 1991.
And for those born after 1991: they are taught to derive their sense of statehood and pride from Stalin’s victory over Hitler in WWII and are “Stalinized” in other ways. But that is the starting point.
Stalin was an absolute tyrant and mass murderer. Putin is a benevolent autocrat and under him there’s no mass terror or purges.
Stalin decimated the Soviet elite. Under Putin, the Russian elite is secure.
To compare the two rulers is misleading, though they ran/run highly personalist regimes.
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