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To: Mount Athos
It sounds like you’re a real expert with your fabricated whopper that 90% of Russians are not politically active. Maybe all the internet copy and pasting from your last post helped to mask the embarrassment of it.

I stand by the number, while you can stand by mass fraud and criminality. It wasn't even a random choice expressing merely a majority, but what I took from a Polish Journalist:

POLISH JOURNALIST: I visited Moscow in November 2012 and I was witnessing “Russkiy Marsh” – a huge demonstration of Russian, anti-Putin, nationalist opposition. I’ve talked with these people, and most of them were saying that Putin is a thief and a communist thug who is destroying Russia. There were a few thousand people at this demonstration – cramped on a small street on the banks of the River Moskva (the only place where they are allowed to protest) – but the crowd was larger at a nearby Putin concert. Later I checked the Russian, Polish, and Western media. All of them were saying that the people of the “Russkiy Marsh” were only a bunch of bloodthirsty neo-Nazis who are supporting Breivik and Mitt Romney. The Russian media was saying that the demonstrators were chanting “Romney vpyeryod!” “Go, Romney, go!”

NYQUIST: [So these people don't count?]

POLISH JOURNALIST: Ninety percent of Russian society is politically inactive – they are brainwashed by TV or they don’t want to endanger themselves by becoming involved in politics. The most active part of this society are anti-Putin nationalists, supporters of Navalny, etc. So Putin is inflaming extreme nationalism, not only to consolidate his position and rally the nation around a dictator, but also to steal the support from his opposition. I think that after the nationalist hype falls away, many Russians will be disenchanted with Putin. They were supporting him because he gave them “economic stability.” [But failure here] will not lead to revolution, but [a loss of stability] would support Putin’s rivals among the “elite” (I think the GRU and Shoigu are trying to undermine him). The most interesting thing is how this power struggle could influence the situation in countries like Poland. I wonder why guys like Gen. Stanislaw Kozeij (the real handler of President Komorowski) are suddenly supporting a U.S. military presence in Poland.

http://www.jrnyquist.com/ukraine-as-strategic-stepping-stone.html

If you want to stand by Russkie poll numbers and election results, go for it. Maybe as you do your research, it will open your eyes.

23 posted on 09/24/2014 10:12:46 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

That’s interesting how you convinced yourself that only 10% of Russians vote when turnout in the last election was 60%.


24 posted on 09/24/2014 10:40:13 AM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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