<< "Democracy is not a potato that you can transplant from one kitchen garden to another." >>
Specially not after you have had it made into vodka and have consumed it on the way to your "normally developed" "democracy."
Or to your One Hundred Million Dollar ill-gotten-gains-acquired South-of-FRance chateau.
Hmmm, maybe there is a hidden message in there...or an inadvertent one...
Now the potatoe thing is something the Poles came up with and call it Vodka and that's been around for about 2-300 years.