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Russians grant Putin right to extend his rule until 2036 in landslide vote
Reuters ^ | JULY 1, 2020 | Andrew Osborn, Vladimir Soldatkin

Posted on 07/02/2020 6:32:04 AM PDT by Salman

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To: tlozo

So America’s foreign policy doesn’t always stand firm against the president for life.
BTW, Biden is 77.


21 posted on 07/02/2020 10:46:40 AM PDT by granada
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To: CARTOUCHE

They never hated the Tsar so long as he was a GOOD Tsar.
Putin makes very good Tsar. They like; they keep.
Russians very utilitarian that way; very much like Depression Era U.S.A. — if it works; don’t fix it.


22 posted on 07/02/2020 2:47:28 PM PDT by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: cherry

Putin actually does a good balancing act of acknowledging the Soviet past as well as the Tsarist past. He gets it, that your history is your history, the good and the bad, and erasing it isn’t the answer.


23 posted on 07/02/2020 2:52:39 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Salman

Putin is the next Brezhnev. He is cementing himself in the long line of Soviet dictators.


24 posted on 07/02/2020 6:51:48 PM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: dfwgator

Also remember that Putin said that the collapse of the USSR was the greatest catastrophe of the 20th Century, and that he would love a “restored” USSR. He also compared Communism to Christianity and said that Lenin is akin to a “saint”. And, Putin has allowed the rehabilitation of Joseph Stalin, something even the USSR didn’t allow from Khrushchev’s ascension to its “fall”.


25 posted on 07/02/2020 6:54:26 PM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: Thunder90

‘Also remember that Putin said that the collapse of the USSR was the greatest catastrophe of the 20th Century, and that he would love a “restored” USSR.’

Fake. The original frase was the opposite meaning.


26 posted on 07/04/2020 1:49:30 AM PDT by NorseViking
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