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Alexander II was killed in St Petersburg by an anarchists bomb. His Son, Alexander III,father of Nicholas II, is reported as saying, when the culprits had been aprehended and condemned to death, "No one will dare to come to me to ask for mercy". And nobody did, except Leo Tolstoy, but everybody usually ignored him anyway.
Point is, nothing ever really changes. If anyone is looking for revolution as a result of this election they will have a long and futile wait. Protests will be permitted, for a while. But slowly and surely the ringleaders will be identified and rounded up and silenced. Russia will march forward, backward or sideways, however Putin determines, and it will all be back to business as usual tomorrow. |
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If there's a couple of bob in it, he'll be there.
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When the very rich realise that their greed for money is providing comfort but not bliss, they begin to seek the power and control over others to satisfy their egos.
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What I could never understand about Russia, since the fall of the Soviet system is this.
One minute your looky-likey Brezhnev wife is rubbing a blackened Brussel sprout around her eyes, in place of mascara, and you'd happily exchange your first born son for a pair of Levis, or a Pink Floyd album. Literally within a couple of years, your wife's a supermodel, you're now a squillionaire oligarch, and you own more impressive array of boats than most countries navies. How that all happen? From bread queue to capitalist captain, in twenty four easy monthly steps. |
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The elected MEPs don't make policy decisions.
They exist to provide the sham appearance of democracy. They won't overturn the applecart because they know they are on a good gravy train. |
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