[C19fan]

Putin’s version of the Potemkin Village although I doubt the real Potemkin Village costs as much as Sochi.

[elhombrelibre]

No, I'm sure it didn't. This really illustrates the folly of Putin's vainglory and the consequences of his style of crony authoritarianism. I guarantee that a lot of those who weirdly see him as some Christian alternative would also be shocked that his autocracy promotes only a cult of Putinism, not Christianity as any Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, or other Christian understands Christianity to be.