[Donna Lee Nardo]

You said you know what Gary is. What is Gary?

And please tell me why you believe Russia is not the newer Russia but is still the old red Soviet Union? And if you answer, spanalot, please go beyond the fact that Putin was a KGB member if you will.

I am interested in what you are thinking. For myself, I have no preconceptions on this topic.

[spanalot]

"You said you know what Gary is. What is Gary?

And please tell me why you believe Russia is not the newer Russia but is still the old red Soviet Union? And if you answer, spanalot, please go beyond the fact that Putin was a KGB member if you will.

I am interested in what you are thinking. For myself, I have no preconceptions on this topic."

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a) A russophile who also runs/ran a russian dating agency and whose wife once worked for Putin himself.

b) The new Russia is the same as Communist Russia is the same as Tsarist Russia because it is morally bankrupt and doomed to economic failure unless it sucks the lifeblood out of millions.

c) Putin/KGB/Stalin/Lenin/Ivan ... all the same - ignorant despots willing to committ mass murder or genocide for personal gain.