Posted on 11/17/2023 7:39:54 AM PST by marcusmaximus
The successor of sitting Russian President Vladimir Putin will be very similar to him politically, the Kremlin suggests.
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a university student-run channel operated by the Moscow State Institute of International Relations that Putin's eventual successor will be "the same. Or different, but the same," according to the Moscow Times.
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Peskov told news outlets in October that there is no competition against Putin ahead of the next presidential election next year.
"We have repeatedly said that President Putin is undoubtedly the number-one politician and statesman in our country," said Peskov. "In my personal opinion […] he has no rivals at the moment and cannot have any in the Russian Federation."
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Meet the new Czar, same as the old Czar.
... and he always will be, until he changes.
If Putin “cannot” have any rivals then he’s a dictator. Death to the dictator! Sic semper tyrranis!
Isn’t it a departure for the Kremlin to EVEN MENTION THE POSSIBILITY of a successor?
We can say the same thing about Joe Biden
Out with the old tyrant, in with the new tyrant. “All oppressive policies and directives remain in effect UNODIR.”
Why isn’t Putin telling us that?
‘different, but the same’What more could you ask for?
So....what he is saying is that they have already decided who is next and VOTING in RUSSIA doesn’t matter.
The Kremlin is basically admitting they they are still Communists with an elite few deciding things, and nothing has changed.
so HE will be an aged disgruntled former KGB Soviet-reminiscing zealot?
VOTING in RUSSIA doesn’t matter.
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Voting in Russia has never mattered and all Russians know it.
and his name will also begin with a “P”
hint hint
We Russians never really got the idea of freedom. We are serfs and we will always be serfs.
I wonder if they are plannng to oust Putin?
That didn't start with the Bolsheviks. Only the Uniforms changed.
Nor did Lenin and Stalin have rivals thanks to infallible methods.
Putin’s genuine rivals end up dead or in jail. All of them. That’s weakness and not strength on his part.
Delete that picture of Putin on horseback with his shirt off. Take a cold shower. And, deflate your doink.
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