• Neuromancer
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    -310 months ago

    I am surprised Putin is still in power.

    The coup in the 90’s was very telling about the average Russian. When they didn’t agree. They didn’t do it.

    I don’t think the average Russian agrees with invading Ukraine. Yet, he’s still sitting in power.

    The rumor is he has cancer but recently he’s looked pretty healthy. I was hoping the rumor would ge true and this would sort itself out.

    • @FrowingFostek
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      410 months ago

      His successor will still be some flavor of authoritarian. My hope is that within the 3rd administration after putin the world will see Russians leading democracy.

      That is to say, I’d like to see truly free and fair elections, rights of the people restored, ethnic Russian culture accepted and embraced, progressive social values supported, and freedom of the press protected.

      This is the Russia I hope for.

      • Colin from Edinburgh, Oklahoma
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        110 months ago

        @FrowingFostek @wintermute_oregon
        It would be nice, but it won’t happen. Russia has been ruled by Autocrats for 1,000 years. The revolution wasn’t an uprising. It was a war fought by the Bolsheviks against everybody else. The Russian population simply fell in line with the new Autocrats, starting with Lenin. There has never been an uprising in Russia.