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That is precisely the USA, kid. When you threaten the life of the duly elected President, his wife and their only child on his inauguration day you've nary room to talk about any other countryPERIOD
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That is precisely the USA, kid. When you threaten the life of the duly elected President, his wife and their only child on his inauguration day you've nary room to talk about any other countryPERIOD
Gone in a flash!
Et tu Moldova?
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"This time dude; right-between-the-eyes."
Ukraine!
in' eh!!!
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"This time dude; right-between-the-eyes."
Thank you putler!
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"This time dude; right-between-the-eyes."
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https://granta.com/russia-verge-nervous-breakdown/Russia on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Liza Alexandrova-Zorina
Translated by Natasha Perova & Sally Foreman
This essay, from our archive, was first published in May 2017.
The triumph of inertia
In Russia, the opposition will not stand in opposition. Citizens will not stand up for civic rights. The Russian people suffer from a victim complex: they believe that nothing depends on them, and by them nothing can be changed.
‘It’s always been so’, they say, signing off on their civic impotence. The economic dislocation of the nineties, the cheerless noughties, and now President Vladimir Putin’s iron rule – with its fake elections, corrupt bureaucracy, monopolization of mass media, political trials and ban on protest – have inculcated a feeling of total helplessness. People do not vote in elections: ‘They’ll choose for us anyway;’ they don’t attend public demonstrations: ‘They’ll be dispersed anyway;’ they don’t fight for their rights: ‘We’re alive, and thank god for that.’
A 140-million-strong population exists in a somnambulistic state, on the verge of losing the last trace of their survival instinct. They hate the authorities, but have a pathological fear of change. They feel injustice, but cannot tolerate activists. They hate bureaucracy, but submit to total state control over all spheres of life. They are afraid of the police, but support the expansion of police control. They know they are constantly being deceived, but believe the lies fed to them on television.
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